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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Tschingis Aitmatow

Andreas Zak
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
MAYA ANGELOU

National Park Service
Anonymous

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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.
Melissa Bank

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Jefferson Bass

Georg Büchmann

Engraving by anonymous artist, printed by O. Felsing (1905)
Georg Büchner

Allyson Beatrice

Photo by P.M. Carlson
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Arnold Bennett

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

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Raymond Briggs

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
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Lord Byron

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Anton Chekhov

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

John Cleese

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
Paulo Coelho

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia D. Cornwell

Microsoft

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Noel Coward

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

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
Barry Cunliffe

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
F.M. Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

Umberto Eco

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

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

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
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sheridan Le Fanu

Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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

Ken Follett

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Anatole France

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

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Max Frisch

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

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Nadine Gordimer

Noah Gordon

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Graham Greene

Martha Grimes

Gunther von Hagens

Credit: Túrelio (Wikipedia user), 2000, Köln, Germany
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Laurell K. Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Wilhelm Hauff

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
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)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Jack Higgins

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mary Vivian Hughes

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Arnaldur Indridason

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. JAMES

www.stephengray.net
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTahar Ben Jelloun

Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

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

Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Harold Lamb

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

C. S. Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Marina Lewycka

Jack London

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

Kaihsu Tai
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
William Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne du Maurier

Carson McCullers

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

Alan Peebles
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
James A. Michener

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)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Mosse

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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

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

Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Laurence Olivier

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

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

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

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Marisha Pessl

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Sylvia Plath

Platon

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
J.B. Priestley

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

Jamie Pullman
Thomas De Quincey

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Joseph Roth

J. K. Rowling

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Memorial to Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Heidelberg, Germany. Photo by user korkodush / Flickr.
Gustav Schwab

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Walter Scott

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

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Irwin Shaw

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Michael Shermer

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Georges Simenon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Johannes Mario Simmel

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Graham Clark, photographer
Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George Rippey Stewart

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Kate Summerscale

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo N. Tolstoi

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Anthony Trollope

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Voltaire

ALICE WALKER

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Martin Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
Jill Paton Walsh

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Thornton Wilder

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

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

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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