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Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Judy Blume

Mark Bowden

Ray Bradbury

Charlotte Brontë

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

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Truman Capote

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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Bikram Choudhury

Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Paulo Coelho

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
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)
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Helen Fielding

Janet Fitch

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
James Frey

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com

Eduardo H. Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Alex Garland

William Golding

William Goldman

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

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Ernest Hemingway

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

José Hernández (1834-1886)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Laura Ingraham

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Diane Johnson

Franz Kafka

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey


Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Milan Kundera

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Harper Lee

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

DAPHNE DUMAURIER

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Emma Mclaughlin

Rohinton Mistry

Margaret Mitchell

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Doreen Orion

George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org

SYLVIA PLATH

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

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

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Laura Restrepo

Photo © Carlos Duque
Alexandra Robbins

Tom Robbins

Geoffrey Robertson

Photo © Jane Bown

Marquis De Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Antonin Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Shel Silverstein

Betty Smith

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

Sophocles

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Hunter S. Thompson

Hector Tobar

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Voltaire


Kurt Vonnegut


David Foster Wallace

Neale Donald Walsch

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Jennifer. Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
E. B. White

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

Elena Seibert

Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

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