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Paperback Pirate
Douglas Adams

Kim Addonizio

Photographed by Robert Specter
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
al- Biruni

Tariq Ali

Darina Allen

Copyright John Sheehan
Johann Valentin Andreae

Nordisk familjebok
Stefan Andres

Gedenktafel für Stefan Andres am Niederprümer Hof in Schweich. Photo by user Schweich / Wikimedia Commons.
Anonymous

Mike Aquilina

Aristoteles

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Stephen Batchelor

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
BBC Radio Cast

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Antony Beevor

Aphra Behn

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

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From
Wikipedia.
Thomas Berger

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Jakob B â-¦hme

Elleke Boehmer

Danielle Battigelli
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jorge Luis Borges

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Janet Boyer

Ray Bradbury

Ajahn Brahm

Photograph by Linda Molendijk, 2001 (Wikipedia)
H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Giordano Bruno

Günter de Bruyn

Günter de Bruyn (right) with Christa Wolf. Photo by Gabriele Senft. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z1229-317)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Bunyan

Titus Burckhardt

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Selfportrait (1894)
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Simon Callow

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nicholas Campion

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
John Case

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Winston Churchill, Sir

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Barbara Hand Clow

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Calvin Coolidge

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)
J. Edward Cornelius

Image created by Rey De Lupos
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Trevor Corson

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
A.J. Cronin

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

David Crystal

Bob Curran

Charles Darwin

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

Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Dee

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Jennifer Donnelly

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Gustave Dore

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
John Dryden

Alexandre Dumas

Lon Milo Duquette

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Epikur

Image by ChrisO, 18 June 2006.From
WkipediaNancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Anna Marie Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

Joshua Ferris

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
C. S. Forester

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Neil Gaiman

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Lewis L. Gould

Perseus Books Group
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Stephen J. Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Alan Greenspan

Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruder 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.)
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
Samuel Hahnemann

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mary Hanson-Roberts

At NolaCon II.
Geraldine Pinch

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Robert Harris

B. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Friedrich A. Von Hayek

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Herodot

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

Photo by Philip H. Bailey
John Hollander

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
L. Ron Hubbard

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
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

Aryeh Kaplan

from a family photo
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Peter Kingsley

Peter Kingsley
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Karl Kraus

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Langenscheidt redaktion

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Library (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Steve Lawhead

D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Rasmus Lerdorf

Photo by Chrys
Eliphas Levi

Wikipedia
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

H. Lewis, Spencer

Burial marker
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
James Madison

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

C. S. Marks

Publicity photo
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Peter Marshall

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.)
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
S L MacGregor Mathers

Richard Matheson

Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Horace McCoy

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Ewan McGregor

John McWhorter

Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More, Sir, Saint

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jean-Baptiste Morin

From "Astrologica Gallica," 1661
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Thomas Nashe

Soseki Natsume

Sharan Newman

Whitney Hall
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Peggy Noonan

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Alan Oken

© Alan Oken
Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueMary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Elaine H. Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Paine

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

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Dale Pendell

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Samuel Pepys

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

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elizabeth Peters

Henry Petroski

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Nikolaus Pevsner

Nathaniel Philbrick

David A. Phillips

David A. Phillips (1934-1993) ~ Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plotinus

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Michael Pritchett

photo by Angela Pritchett
Marcel Proust

Pullman; Philip

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ludwig Börne Award Ceremony, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Renault

Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Steven Runciman

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

Saburo Sakai

nationalmuseum.af.mil
Friedrich von Schiller

Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Sandra Schwab

Walter Sir Scott

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shatner

Jim Shepard

Barry Goldstein
Lionel Shriver

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Kathy Sierra

Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Ian Douglas Smith

Ian Smith, Harare Airport, 2000. Photo by user BScar23625 / Wikipedia.
Zadie Smith

John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Sueton

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Andrew S Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Pamela Thompson

photo by Mark Shapiro
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thukydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
William York Tindall

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

Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Ilija Trojanow

Photo by Effi Schweizer / Wikimedia Commons
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Various

Salley Vickers

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Arthur Waite

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

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish" (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
David Foster Wallace

B. Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

William Allen White

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-37609)
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Jack Whyte

Oscar Wilde

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

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
P. G. Wodehouse

Steve Wozniak

By Alan Luckow, 1999.
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Jane Yolen

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Zitkala-Sa

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-119349)
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