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Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Lloyd Alexander

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Piers Anthony

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Dave Barry

Sebastian Barry

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Samuel Beckett

Martyn Bedford

Photo by Claire McNamee
Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Bender Hy

E. F. Benson

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

Eye on Books
Suzanne Berne

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Judy Blume

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Ben Bova

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Bertolt Brecht

David Brin

By R. Feist
Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Lora Brody

Bob Four
Terry Brooks

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Betsy Cromer Byars

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Susan Choi

Sigrid Estrada
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Bernard Clayton

Photograph by Jerry Mitchell
J. M. Coetzee

Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Ellen Datlow

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

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Gordon R Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Stephen Dobyns

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Paul Dukes

Kim Edwards

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stanley M. Elkins

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Courtesy of Anne Fausto-Sterling
Leslie Feinberg

Raymond Feist

Georges Seguin
Dan Fesperman

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. Foster

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Charles Frazier

Esther Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Alexandra Fuller

Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Jane Gardam

Alex Garland

Jean Genet

Jean George

Photo by Eric Bergman
William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gail Godwin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Maxim Gorky

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Elizabeth Graver

Debi Milligan
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Grimm Brothers

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.)
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Tony Hillerman

James Hilton

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

Ernst Theodor Hoffman

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Wendy Holden

Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Tanya Huff

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eva Ibbotson

William Inge

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Brian Jacques

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames W. Johnson

From: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE
OR A CYCLOPEDIA OF THOUGHT ON THE
VITAL TOPICS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO. 1902.
LeRoi Jones

Library of Congress
Terry Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Robert Jordan

Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Mary Karr

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Jonathon Keats

Photo by Timothy Vollmer / Flickr
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueD.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
David Letterman

Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
Bruce Levine

Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C.s. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Anne McCaffrey

Frank McCourt

Ian McDonald

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

Eamonn McCabe
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Emma McLaughlin

Mameve Medwed

mamevemedwed.com
China Mieville

Arthur Miller

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Pankaj Mishra

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Nancy Mitford

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

Wikipédia France
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Antonya Nelson

Photograph by Michael O'Neill
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Wendy O'Flaherty

George Orwell

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

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Sara Perry

photo by Mark Wexler
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Jerry Pournelle

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Frederic Prokosch

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

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Karen Quinn

Scott Rice

Photo by Richard B. Ressman
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J. D. Salinger

John Philip Santos

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Scalzi

Annemarie Schimmel

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Jon Scieszka

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Kamila Shamsie

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sharon Shinn

Nevil Shute

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

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Fyodor Sologub

wikimedia commons
Wallace Earle Stegner

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Sean Stewart

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Charles Stross

Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
P. L. Travers

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Various

Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Voltaire

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMartha Wells

photo by Troyce Wilson
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Tennessee Williams

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

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Robert Mcliam Wilson

Courtesy of Random House UK
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Victoria Wise

Photo by Rick Wise
P.G. Wodehouse

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Tsao Hsueh-Chin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Jane Yolen

Zamyatin Yeugeny

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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