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Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Jean Anouilh

Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh website
J.M. Barrie

Stephanie Barron

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Anthea Bell

Arnold Bennett

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erma Bombeck

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
James Boswell

Ray Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

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

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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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)
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Susanna Clarke

John Collier

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Patricia Cornwell

Noel Coward

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Mary Mapes Dodge

Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Alexandre Dumas père

Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

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

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

Ralph Ellison

Eleanor Estes

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

Connie Miller
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dorothy Canfield

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Oliver (1730-1774). Austen Goldsmith, John, artist, illus.

From Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Ernst Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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.
Dubose Heyward

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

Shane Leonard (2006)
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.E. Housman

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Hunt Jackson

Circa 1888 (LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-51087)
Shirley Jackson

M. R. JAMES

www.stephengray.net
Terry Jones

James Joyce

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

Kent wearing a coat and vest, annotated on reverse: "Rockwell Kent, author of "Wilderness", Putnam", photographer unknown.
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
Jean Kerr

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

wikipedia
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Anne Lamott

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Edith Layton

photo credit: Lisa Whiteman; from author's website
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Aldo Leopold

Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
C. S. Lewis

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Rose MacAulay

John Burlinson
George Macdonald

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.)
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Daphne Du Maurier

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
A. A. Milne

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

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Kate Mosse

Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Beverley Nichols

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

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Scott O'Dell

George Orwell

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

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

wikimedia commons
Elizabeth Peters

Henry Petroski

Sylvia Plath

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Mary Jo Putney

Franco
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Barbara Pym

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Theodore Roethke

Edward Rutherfurd

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Margery Sharp

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Shel Silverstein

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Scott Smith

Midori Snyder

Photo by Stephen Haessler
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Johanna Spyri

Christina Stead

John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
John Addington Symonds

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, via glbtq.com
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan. Thomas

J.R.R. Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
P. L. Travers

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Emma Campbell Webster

Sara Dunn
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
ANTONIA WHITE

Time Warner Books UK
E. B. White

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
kate douglas wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
William Carlos Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

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