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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie
(Photograph by Lou Abercrombie)
Douglas Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Arthur Agatston

Louisa May Alcott

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Peter Allison

Stephen E. Ambrose

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
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.
Tash Aw

mathieu bourgois
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Sebastian Barry

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Antony Beevor

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mark Bowden

Gregory Pappy Boyington

"Pappy" Boyington ~ U.S. Marine Corps Photo
Peter V. Brett

Luigi Novi
David Brin

By R. Feist
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

Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Thomas Bulfinch

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
LEWIS CARROL

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
Susanna Clarke

Bernard Clayton

Photograph by Jerry Mitchell
Admiral Lord Cochrane

Paulo Coelho

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Jim Corbett

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
John Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
DANTE

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

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

Moshe Dayan

Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
William Dietrich

Reader's Digest Editorial Staff

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Stephen R. Donaldson

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Library. (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Niall Ferguson

Dan Fesperman

Helen Fielding

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Vince Flynn

Bruce Fogle

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
C.S. Forester

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

R. F. Foster

George Macdonald Fraser

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

Alex Garland

Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Norman L. Geisler

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.)
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Posie Graeme-Evans

posiegraemeevans.com
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

James Grippando

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ayun Halliday

Photo by Greg Kotis
Tony Hall

U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Harrigan

Matt Lankes
Robert Harris

Erin Hart

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
O. Henry

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.
Herodotus

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

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

Ben Hogan

Photo by Dick DeMarsico: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-115559)
HOMER

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt. Frontispiece from An autobiography (1889)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Peter James

Cheryl Alters Jamison

with Bill Jamison
photo by Mary Jablonsky
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Jerome K. Jerome

Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
Sherry Jones

Sherry Jones sent this picture to me via email.
James Joyce

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

Eric R. Kandel

August Wieselmayer from Wien Vienna, Österreich Austria
Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Brian Keene

Diana Kennedy

Ken Kesey

Dean King

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
MANUEL KOMROFF

Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Anne Lamott

Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

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

Photo by Chrys
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Daniel J. Levitin

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C.S. Lewis

Meriwether Lewis

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

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

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
David Liss

Robert Littell

Philippe Mats
Jack London

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

Flickr user Trudi_
Marcus Luttrell

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Richard Matheson

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Colleen McCullough

Kathleen McGowan

Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Kyle Mills

Anchee Min

Rohinton Mistry

Maria Montessori

(Library of Congress Prints and Photography Division LC-DIG-ggbain-14964)
Harold G. Moore

Authors Joseph L. Galloway (left) and Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore (Ret.), USA, (right), share a light moment while speaking at an Officer Professional Development session at Fort Hood's Howze Theater. Photo by AMY B. BOMBASSARO, CIV, 2/15/2002
Alan Moorehead

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

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
David Morrell

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Nancy, Moser

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.)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gina B. Nahai

Authors Gina Nahai (left) and Hope Edelman
at the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganV.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Pablo Neruda

Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Jack Nicklaus

President Bush presents PGA champion Jack Nicklaus with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Garth Nix

Himilce Novas

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Scott O'Grady

Scott O'Grady (Center) ~ Photo by USAF (Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael B. Oren

George Orwell

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

Thomas Paine

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Iain Pears

Penguin

Sidewalk Advertising, Fitzrovia, London. Photo by user Albarella / Flickr.
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Perrault

wikimedia commons
Anne Perry

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Jean Plaidy

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

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Roy Porter

Colin L. Powell

Credit: Charles Haynes, March 15, 2005
William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Marcel. Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Christopher Reich

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Mary Renault

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Cokie Roberts

Andrea Di Robilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Marilynne Robinson

Peter Robinson

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

James Runcie

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Anatoli Naumovich Rybakov

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Andrzej Sapkowski

Photo taken by Szymon Sokół
at the Polcon 2003 science fiction
and fantasy convention in Elbląg
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Norman Schwarzkopf

U.S. Army photograph (1988) by Russell Roederer.
Walter Scott

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

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
william shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Jean Shepherd

Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
Dan Simmons

Nina Simonds

Richard Howard
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
David Sklar

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
Joshua Slocum

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71036)
Adam Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Wilbur Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic Society

G. Moxley Sorrell

G. Moxley Sorrel, Library of Congress collection.
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Henry Morton Stanley

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

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
S.M. Stirling

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Rebecca Stott

Peter Straub

Robert; Tranquillus Graves, Gaius Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Marlo Thomas

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Sun Tzu

Various

M.G. Vassanji

Denise Grant
Jules Verne

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

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Brent Weeks

Travis Johnson Photography
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
David Wellington

Photo by the author.
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Bing West

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Charles Whiting

Mr. Whiting, at age 80, with a copy of his first novel.
[supplied by user iamiam (publisher)]
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Tad Williams

Lauren Willig

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Dick Winters

Tobias Wolff

Tiger Woods

Credit: Paddy Briggs
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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