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R. Tucker Abbott

Photo Courtesy of The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Aeschylus.,

Aesop.,

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Louisa May Alcott

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

Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Giles Andreae

Claudia Dulak
Roy Chapman Andrews

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50488)
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Catherine Anholt

Catherine and Laurence Anholt
Nick. Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Stairway and rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

wikimedia commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Enid. Bagnold

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

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
J.M. Barrie

John Barrow, Sir.

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pamela Conn Beall

Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp
Alan Bean

Photo created by NASA
Beril Becker

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

"Midshipman William Bligh"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judy Blume

Boy Scouts of America.,

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
J. H. Brennan

Jan Brett

Benjamin Britten

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
N.M. Browne

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jeff Brown

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
Marc Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Laurent de Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Robert Burleigh

Credit: Mark Burleigh
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Betsy Cromer Byars

Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
David A. Carter

Photo by Keith Sutter
Charles Causley

Lynne V. Cheney

White House Photo by David Bohrer (Wikimedia Commons)
Lydia Maria Francis Child

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Vicki Cobb

Eleanor Coerr

Joanna Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Padriac Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
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)
Stephen Cosgrove

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Joy Cowley

Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sharon Creech

Carolyn Crimi

Photo by Lilithcat
Barry W. Cunliffe

Jamie Lee Curtis

41st Annual Emmy Awards, photo by Alan Light
Neil. Curtis

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)
Richard Henry Dana

Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Charles Darwin

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

Michelle Blum
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Lester Del Rey

Tomie De Paola

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Gordon R Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Reader's Digest Services Pty.

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

Charles Lincoln Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Arthur Dorros

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
William O. Douglas

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Alexandre Dumas

Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
William Durbin

Courtesy of William Durbin
Gerald Durrell

Sylvia A. Earle

Coastal America / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
M. C. Escher

Cathryn Falwell

Grace Cavendish

Cameracraft
Matthew Van Fleet

Brian Stanton
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Brian Floca

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Richard A. Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
William Gibson

Nikki Giovanni

Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Jane Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Diane Goode

Peter Goode
Neil Grant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Michelle Y. Green

Nikki Grimes

Courtesy of Nikki Grimes
The Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Jacob Grimm

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

Girl Scouts of the United States of America. [from old catalog],

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
John Guy

Author's website
Bill Haduch

Otto Hahn

J. M. Haile

Taken by Tricia Haile
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

Edith Hamilton

Judith Hann

Geraldine Harris

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Zahi A. Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
B. G. Hennessy

O. Henry

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
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
ERIC HILL

Tony Hillerman

John Himmelman

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Mary Hoffman

© Jess Barber 2004
Katharine Holabird

John Hollander

Homer.,

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Langston Hughes

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

wikipedia
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
A. J. Jacobs

Brian Jacques

John Jakes

Henry James

Wikipedia
Peter James

Elizabeth Janeway

Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Steve Jenkins

Lauren St. John

Angela Johnson

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Keiko Kasza

Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Steven Kellogg

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Francis Scott Key

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Dick King-Smith

Rudyard Kipling

Anna Kirwan

Suzy Kline

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Manuel Komroff

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

wikipedia
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
A. Starker Leopold

Courtesy of U.S. National Park Service
Julius Lester

Debbie Levy

Abraham Lincoln

David Lloyd

Luigi Novi
Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00433)
(cropped)
Jack London

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Sarah Lovett

Linda Lowery Keep

Linda in her San Miguel de Allende garden
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Hugh MacLennan

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Bruce Marshall

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

Jean Marzollo

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Geraldine McCaughrean

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
Rand McNally and Company.

Angela Shelf Medearis

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Calvin Miller

A.A. Milne

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

(Library of Congress Prints and Photography Division LC-DIG-ggbain-14964)
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin (Basketball Player) Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy
Jill Murphy

British Museum (Natural History),

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
Walter Dean Myers

NBC

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
New York Public Library.

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Lennart Nilsson

Vogler
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Laura Joffe Numeroff

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

Scott O'Grady (Center) ~ Photo by USAF (Wikimedia Commons)
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Rosa Parks

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/images/photo_pups.jpg
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Donald Culross Peattie

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

wikimedia commons
Ann Lane Petry

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

Nathaniel Philbrick

Jean Piaget

Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Tamora Pierce

Jerry Pinkney

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
William R. Pogue

Photo created by NASA
Mia Posada

Photo courtesy of Mia Posada.
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Alice Provensen

Inc. Dorling Kindersley

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

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Delia Ray

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Photo by Larry O. Gay) ~ Flickr
Sir Herbert Edward Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Dian Curtis Regan

Kathryn Reiss

Mills College
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Norman Rockwell

Carl R. Rogers

Natalie Rogers
Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
Connie Roop

Peter Roop

Phyllis Root

Photo by Kelly Povo
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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.)
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Felix Salten

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)
Mari Sandoz

Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Jon. Scieszka

Sir Walter Scott

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

Sears Merchandise Building Tower, Illinois, USA
John Delano
W. H. Sebrell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-28679)
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Maurice Sendak

Ernest Thompson Seton

1901 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-103952)
Theo LeSieg

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
David Shannon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Margery Sharp

Vincent Sheean

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Robert. Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
Paul Sloane

David Small

Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History (U.S.),

Photo by Stephen Mihalcik / Flickr.
Lauraine Snelling

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.)
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic Society (U.S.).,

Sophocles.,

Johanna Spyri

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Melissa Stewart

Courtesy of Melissa Stewart
Geronimo Stilton

PieterDP
R. L. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Frank Richard Stockton

See below.
Tanya Lee Stone

Photo by Bonnie Christensen
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Gene Stratton-Porter

Ball State University
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
George E. Stuart

George E. Stuart at the site of Palenque
Photo by Melinda Y. Stuart
Julie Sykes

Copyright and credit is A.G MacPhee
Thomas Taylor

British National portrait Gallery
Mark Teague

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Mike Thaler

mikethaler.com
Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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

Sepp Ruschp, Heinrich Harrer, Lowell Thomas and Chiharu Igaya: Image ©
ÖNB/WienEdward L. Thorndike

Credit: Bachrach, New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Time-Life Books.,

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

P.L Travers

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

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo by Frank Gatteri
(trumanlibrary.org)
Tasha illus. Tudor

Richard Brown
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
United States.,

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Congress of the United States

House of Representatives and Central Dome, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photo by Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons.
Violette Verdy

Violette Verdy, in Serenade, photo by Carl Van Vechten, Dec. 4, 1961 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52736)
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Judith. Viorst

Milton Viorst
Phil Vischer

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Leslie Waller

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

Jennifer Ward

Courtesy of Jennifer Ward (Children's Book Author)
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Jude Watson

Paul Llewellyn
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Irving Werstein

Janwillem Van de Wetering

Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
David Wiesner

Library of Congress
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Mo. Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Donald A. Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Douglas Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
Chris Woodford

Jacqueline Woodson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Dan Yaccarino

Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

Majonaise
Bettie B. Youngs

Paul O. Zelinsky

Deborah Hallen
Ludmila Zeman

Linda Spaleny
Paul Zindel

Charlotte Zolotow

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