colleenfleisch's authors: 345 authors | 232 with pictures | 113 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
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 Ambrose

Anonymous

Aristotle

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
Auel Jean m

Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Russell Baker

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Beckett

Steve Berry

Steve Berry
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
James Boswell

Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

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

James Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Eric Carle

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John le Carre

LEWIS CARROL

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia D. Cornwall

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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)
Charles Darwin

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

Antonio G Colombo
Nelson DeMille

Tomie dePaola

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas père

Sarah Dunant

Umberto Eco

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

T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

Graham Greene

Martha Grimes

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.)
Ursula K. LeGuin

Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Michael Harvey

David Turner
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
James Hilton

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

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Henrik Ibsen

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

Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksMichael Jecks

Samuel Johnson

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

Michio Kaku

Raymond Khoury

Mary Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Stephen King

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

Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Tim LaHaye

Harper Lee

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

Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Jack London

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Christopher Marlowe

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

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Jenny McCarthy

Photo by "Gamerscoreblog" (Flickr & Wikimedia Commons)
Frank McCourt

Kathleen McGowan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

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

Margaret Mitchell

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Lloyd Moss

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

Laura Joffe Numeroff

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

Eugene O'Neill

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

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

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

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Richard Peck

Anne Perry

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Francois Rabelais

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
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
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Henry Rollins

Photograph by Emma Farrer
James Rollins

Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Michael Elsohn Ross

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Edward Rutherfurd

Carl Sagan

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Walter 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
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 ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Shel Silverstein

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
Adam Smith

MARTIN CRUZ SMITH

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Scott Smith

Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Straub

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Henry Thoreau, David

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

Robert Scoble
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Calvin Trillin

Frances Milton Trollope

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various contributors

Jules Verne

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

Milton Viorst
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

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

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tad Williams

Tennessee Williams

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

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Richard Zacks

Paul O. Zelinsky

Deborah Hallen
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