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Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Gerry Adams

Photo by Flickr user Missfitz
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Alain- Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee

Louisa M. Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sibilla Aleramo

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Svetlana Alliluyeva

Wikipedia
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Kingsley Amis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
National Library of Australia

Photo by user Bradii / Flickr.
Avicenna

Immodinova C
Frank, Aydelotte

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lauren Bacall

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore Balzac

Wikipédia France
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Nicholas A. Basbanes

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Bede

Brendan Behan

Hilaire Belloc

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Saul Bellow

Arnold Bennett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Quentin Beresford

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ingrid Bergman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Shirley Temple

Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Robert Bolt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Mark Bowden

RAY BRADBURY

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Richard Branson

Photo created by NASA (cropped)
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Hermann Broch

Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Stephen Budiansky

Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Mikhail Afanasevich; Ginsburg Bulgakov, Mirra (translator)

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

Tim Cahill

Michael Caine

Richard Bitting, July 30, 2007
Erskine Caldwell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Simon Callow

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fiona Capp

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Emmanuel Carrere

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Lewis Carroll

Rachel L. Carson

from Wikipedia
Violet Bonham Carter

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07463)
Neville W. Cayley

Circa 1936, G.M. Matthews, National Library of Australia.
Benvenuto Cellini

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Charles Chaplin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G.K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Tommy Chong

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Agatha Christie

Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Marcus Clarke

Wikimedia
Carl Von Clausewitz

Phil Cleary

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Samuel Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
F.C. Copleston

Patricia Cornwell

Tony Curtis

Actor Tony Curtis ~ U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Michael Foutch
Marquis de Custine

Wikipedia
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Peter David

Angela Davis

Bette Davis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
L.Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Alan M. Dershowitz

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch (ed.)

Ariel Hameon
Stephen Donaldson

J.P. Donleavy

Fyodor M Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
John Dower

Columbia University
Tim Dowley

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
John Dryden

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Isadora Duncan

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-05654 (cropped)
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Emile. Durkheim

Gerald Durrell

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Pete Earley

photo by Patti Luzi Earley
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Arabella Edge

Maria Edgeworth

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Amelia B. Edwards

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Charles W. Eliot (ed.)

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Desiderius Erasmus

Leifur Eiricksson

Statue in front of the Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by
Andreas Tille.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John Evelyn

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Frances Farmer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Jude Fisher

F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Christopher Fry

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Leonhart Fuchs

Neue Kritterbuch
Mark Fuhrman

Angel Laws
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Galileo

Justus Sustermans
Paul. Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Ava Gardner

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
General Reinhard Gehlen

Uri Geller

Credit: Aquarius2000 (Wikipedia user), 2005
Jean Genet

Ricky Gervais

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Andre Gide

1893
Sandra Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
W S GILBERT

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jane Gleeson-White

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Nikolay Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gary Goldschneider

Oliver. Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
John Steele Gordon

Photo by Marcell Vandehaar, 1996
Noah Gordon

Maxim Gorky

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Neil Grant (ed.)

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

John Guy

Author's website
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
George Savile Halifax

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Frank Harris

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Robert Harris

Moss Hart

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Patricia Campbell Hearst

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Friedrich Heer

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
O. Henry

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Katharine Hepburn

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Charlton Heston

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hill

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Conrad N. Hilton

Portrait of Conrad Hilton. Photo by Randal L. Schwartz / Flickr.
Adolf Hitler

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Hans Holbein

Hans Holbein the Younger
Self-portrait, 1541,
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
(Yorck Project)
Steven Eisler

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert E. Howard

Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Erich Hoyt

Photo by Chris Johnson, www.earthOcean.tv
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Barry Humphries

WTCA
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ice-T

Steve Rapport
Ion L Idriess

Ion L. Idriess, c. 1940-1941 / by unknown photographer
Eugene Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Michael Jackson

photo by Alan Light of Michael Jackson (1)
Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Storm Jameson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Randall Jarrell

Catherine Jinks

L. L. Cool J

w:User:Hudgons
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Barry Jones

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ernst Juenger

Franz Kafka

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Sheila Kaye-Smith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Gazi Mustafa Kemal

Thomas a Kempis

Paul M. Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Norma Khouri

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dean Koontz

Peter Kropotkin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Tenzin Gyatso (The Dalai Lama XIV)

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
F.R. Leavis

Alan Lee

Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Julia Leigh

Noah Sheldon
V.I. Lenin

Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C. S. Lewis

Liberace

Alan Light
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Robert Ludlum

Niccolo Machiavelli

Colin MacInnes

Brenda Maddox

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Adeline Yen Mah

A.T. Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Harpo Marx

Credit: Vandamm Studio
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Mason

James Mason the Chess Player,
From the 1895 Hastings Tournament Book
W Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Andre Maurois

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anne McCaffrey

Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Gillian Mears

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Miller

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Kate Millett

A.A. Milne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Giles Milton

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Alistair Moffat

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Pete Moore

petermoore.net
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Fidelis Morgan

fidelismorgan.com
Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
John Mortimer

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Alphonse Mucha

Photo by: Geo. K. Lawrence Co., Chicago. 1906.
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anaïs Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Diana Norman

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
of Norwich Julian

Edna O'Brien

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)
Dennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Ovid

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kathy Page

Copyright Shari Mcdonald
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Martin Parr

Andrew Barton Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Samuel Pepys

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plautus

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Roy Porter

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
Helen Prejean

Mark Pritchard

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
A.S. Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Anthony Quinn

Credit: Alan Light, 1988 Emmy Awards
Francois Rabelais

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Piers Paul Read

Vanessa Redgrave

Elena Torre
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Henry Reynolds

Image copyright Henry Reynolds
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Natalie Robins

Joyce Ravid
Gene Roddenberry

Listening to fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas at Austin, ca. 1978. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Phyllis Rose

Kennilworthy Whisp

Arundhati Roy

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Douglas Rushkoff

KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series, April 2007, photo by Bruce Turner
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward Rutherfurd

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
V. Sackville-West

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