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D'Arcy Norman
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind ADIGA

Mark Pringle
Tariq Ali

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Suad Amiry

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kingsley Amis

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

National Park Service
Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

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

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Marjorie Barnard

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Anthony Beevor

Aphra Behn

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

AlanBennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Kay Boyle

Malcolm Bradbury

Mary Braddon

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
VERA BRITTAIN

Mark Gerson
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Bryan Burrough

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julius Caesar

public domain
Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Andrea Camilleri

Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Photograph by Enrico Ferorelli
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
J.M. Coetzee

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Steve Coll

Center for American Progress
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)
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Eleanor Dark

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

E.M. Delafield

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Michael Dobbs

Julia Donaldson

H.D.

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Nell Dunn

Umberto Eco

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

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)
Anne .Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ildefonso Falcones

deramaenrama
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Joshua Ferris

Robert William Fogel

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Miles Franklin

Chrystia Freeland

Joi Ito
Thomas Friedman

Charles Haynes
Alan Furst

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Katy Gardner

Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
James Douglas Hamilton

Copyright © Prof James D. Hamilton. All rights reserved.
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Robert Harris

Roy Hattersley

Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Sarah Helm

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Dorothy Hewett

Christopher Hibbert

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Agnes Humbert

drawing of Agnès Humbert by Wikipedia user P0mbal
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Arnaldur Indridason

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
Storm Jameson

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

Jerry Bauer
Colin Jones

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Gail Jones

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
M. J. Farrell

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

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Margaret Kennedy

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

Neil Cooper, photographer
Elias Khoury

Suz
Sophie Kinsella

Henry Kissinger

Joe Klein

Nicholas D. Kristof

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
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
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Nicholas Lemann

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Donna Leon

Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Simon Levack

Sarah Levack
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Marina Lewycka

David Liss

Livy

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Robert E. Lucas

Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Adeline Yen Mah

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Nelson Mandela


Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Andrew Marr

Damien Everett from Southampton, UK - via Wikimedia Commons
Bruce Marshall

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

Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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

Photo by Rul Xavier
Arthur Miller

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

Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
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)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Irene Nemirovsky

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Tillie Olsen

Malika Oufkir

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
TONY PARSONS

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

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

Iain Pears

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Ann Petry

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

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)

Chaim Potok

Julie Powell

unknown
KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD

May Moore (d. 1931)
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Aron Ralston

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
John. Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J. D. Salinger

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)

Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
OLIVE SCHREINER

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

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 ArtJeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
Kamila Shamsie

Paullina Simons

Mel Cain
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Jose Carlos Somoza

Andrzej Barabasz
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Christina Stead

John Steinbeck

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

Jay Tamboli
Nancy L. Stokey

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
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
Frederick Taylor

Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Hunter S. Thompson

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Violet Trefusis

John Burlinson
Rose Tremain

Anthony Trollope

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Hal R. Varian

Joi Ito
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Eudora Welty

Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
E. B. White

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

John Edward Williams

Tim. Winton

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

NAOMI WOLF

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

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

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