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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Deborah Adams

Joseph Addison

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

MDCarchives
Boris Akunin

Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Hoermann/Evergreen Studios
Louisa May Alcott

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

Carrie Schechter
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Stephen E. Ambrose

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Stephanie Barron

Allison Hoover Bartlett

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Jefferson Bass

Charlene Ann Baumbich

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Corrie ten Boom

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.)
Robert H. Bork

Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Rhys Bowen

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
C. J. Box

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Jim Brickman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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
William F. Buckley

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
T. Davis Bunn

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.)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

David Carkeet

www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/
Eric Carle

Ben Carson

Willa Cather

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

John Burlinson
Andrew R. L. Cayton

Irena Chalmers

The Culinary Institute of America
Mary Ellen Chase

G.K. Chesterton

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

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada

Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Tom Clancy

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Ann Cleeves

Duncan Lawrie

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Sharon Creech

J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Deborah E. Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Elizabeth Crook

Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
David Crystal

David Dary

Ned Hockman
Diane Mott Davidson

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Clarence Day

Edgar Degas

Self-portrait, circa 1854-1855
E. M. Delafield

Jo Dereske

Courtesy of the author
Colin Dexter


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Joanne Dobson

Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
Mary Maples Dodge

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Mark Dunn

Mignon G. Eberhart

David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Emily Eden

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Reader's Digest Editors

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

Åke Edwardson

Edward Eggleston

Photo copyrighted by L. Bernie Gallaher, 1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78021)
George Eliot

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

Eye on Books
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Linda A. Fairstein

Barry Farber

Barry Farber.
Edna Ferber

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

Fordan
Joanne Fluke

murdershebaked.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Aminatta Forna

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
John Fox

John Fox (3)
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Charles Frazier

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Abbie Gardner-Sharp

Abbie Gardner-Sharp. Frontispiece from History of the Spirit Lake massacre and captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner (1895)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jonah Goldberg

Lee Goldberg

Juan Gómez-Jurado

Tomatox1968
Kate GREENAWAY

Kate Greenaway in her studio, 1895
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Graham Greene

Val D. Greenwood

I took it myself and own all rights.
Martha Grimes

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Masha Hamilton

Photo by Briana Orr
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Sean Hannity

Karen Harper

Jeffrey A. Rycus
Rosemary Harris

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/7/08, Scottsdale, AZ
John Hart

Abigail Seymour Photography
Matthew Hart

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Helen Hayes

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Christopher Hibbert

Liz Curtis Higgs

posted by Nikol
James Hilton

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

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Cyndi Howells

Cyndi Howells, Personal Website:
http://www.cyndislist.com/cl_book.htm
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Angela Hynes

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Eva Ibbotson

Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
John Jakes

P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksEmyl Jenkins

Robert M. Sexton
Maureen Jennings

maureenjennings.com
Jerome K. Jerome

Elton John

Wikipedia user jibegod
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Mises.org
Jan Karon

M. M. Kaye

Cindy Kenney

Thomas Kinkade

Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
John Law

Lisa Lenard-Cook

Photo by Kyle Zimmerman
Donna Leon


C.S. Lewis

Andrew Lih

Charles Lindberg

Laura Lippman

James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
David Liss

Mary Logue

Jonathan London

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Federico García Lorca

E. S. Lorenz

Edmund Simon Lorenz. Portrait from page 318 of Biography of Gospel song and hymn writers (1914) by Jacob Henry Hall
Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Max Lucado

Sarah Lyall

Author Photograph by Lisa Wolfe
Helen MacInnes

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

Courtesy of Indiana University
Charles Major

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Peyton Manning

U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer’s Mate Don Bray, 2005
Margaret Maron


Ngaio Marsh

Conrad Allen

Simon Whitfield
Daphne du Maurier

C. M. Mayo

Teresa Castracane
Frank McCourt

Malachy McCourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Sharyn Mccrumb

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Rand McNally and Company

Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganCheryl Mendelson

James A. Michener

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

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Leon Morris

Ridley College Library, Australia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Fiona Mountain

© Hugh Dickens
Ogden Nash

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Daughters of the American Revolution.,

Headquarters of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C. Photo by Jennifer / Flickr.
Mark A. Noll

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.)
Peggy Noonan

Himilce Novas

E. B. O'Callaghan

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Scott O'Dell

Diana O'Hehir

Linda Olsson

Suz
Katherine Hall Page

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Barbara Parker

Octavio Paz

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Stef Penney


Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Anne Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
Philippa Carr

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

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-122087
Richard Powell

Courtesy of BookThink
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Kwei J. Quartey

Photo by Steve Munoz, stevesinfocus.com
Selected By Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
Kathy Reichs

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Cliff Richard

Derek Jones, November 2, 2006
Emilie Richards

Don Richardson

Hester D. Richardson

Hester Dorsey Richardson (b.1862), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
James Whitcomb Riley

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Marilynne Robinson

Peter Robinson

Norman Rockwell

Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodger (at piano) with Lorenz Hart, 1936, World Telegram photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-122089)
Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
Joel C. Rosenberg

Author photo copyright © 2005 by Joel Rosenberg. All rights reserved.
Tatiana de Rosnay

Matsas/EHO
Ann B. Ross

Ann B. Ross
Patricia H. Rushford

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.)
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Walter Scott

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

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Nevil Shute

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

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Georges Simenon

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

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

Graham Clark, photographer
Alfred B. Smith

Betty Smith

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

Image copyright © Steve Double, 2006

Patricia Houck Sprinkle

J. B. Stanley

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
John Stossel

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Ball State University
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Kate Summerscale

Joni Eareckson Tada

Paco Ignacio Taibo

Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Sarah Stewart Taylor

Photo by Jennifer Hauck

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Thatcher

NASA
Victoria Thompson

Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
J.R.R. Tolkien

Maria Augusta Trapp

Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Anthony Trollope

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

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
United States

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Lea Wait

Courtesy of Lea Wait
Jill Paton Walsh

James Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Warren W. Wiersbe

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.)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Dorothy Clarke Wilson

Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
P. G. Wodehouse

Harold Bell Wright


Qiu Xiaolong

Louisa Lim
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Majonaise
Ann Eliza Young

Boston : Armstrong & Co. (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZC4-6668)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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