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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Louisa M. Alcott

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

Julien
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Doreen Baingana

J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Simone De Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
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
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Russell Brand

Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.
Kate Braverman

Photo by Chris Felver
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Po Bronson

Larry D. Moore
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
Brookner Anita

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Louise Brown

Andy Frost
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Carole Cadwalladr

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Emmanuel Carrere

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Willa Cather

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

Amy Marash
Jonathan Coe

J. M. Coetzee

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E.M. Delafield

Don DeLillo

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
E.L. Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
F.M. Dostoevsky

Wikimedia Commons; Russian Life
Unity Dow

Photo of Unity Dow reproduced with permission of Spinifex Press. All Rights Reserved.
L. Timmel Duchamp

Elaine Dundy

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
M.Barnard Eldershaw

George Eliot

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

Elena Seibert
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Kate Figes

Orlando Figes

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

From Wikimedia
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Miles Franklin

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Mark Gevisser

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Nadine Gordimer

Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Grossmith

public domain image
Olga Grushin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Pip R. Lagenta
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jaroslav Hasek

Illustration by Zero
Roy Hattersley

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Copy daguerreotype, original possibly
by Edward Anthony, circa 1844-1845
(Daguerreotype collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1807)
C L R James

Henry James

Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Fergal Keane

Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Natsuo Kirino

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Ivan Klima

Milan Kundera

Christina Lamb

Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

Jane Brown
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy
Penelope Lively

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
Ewan McGregor

Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Rohinton Mistry

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)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Elaine Morgan


Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Joseph O'Connor

Petr Novák, Wikipedia
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Daryl N Long
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Sara Paretsky

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

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

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

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Amy Prior

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005

Jean Rhys

Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Bethan Roberts

Marilynne Robinson

Arundhati Roy

Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Joe Sacco

Photo by Matt Musselman
V. Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Manda Scott

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
RC Sherriff

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

Nevil Shute

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Diana Souhami

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Speare

Dale Spender

Monica Spender
Olaf Stapledon

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

W. T. Stead

Pach
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Bryan Talbot

Source: Bryan Talbot, 2006
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
Leo Tolstoy

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)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Verne

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

Dan Waddell

Maggie Hannan
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Chris Ware

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
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)
Kate Wilhelm


Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Marilyn Yalom

Reid Yalom
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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