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Peter Abelard

Isaac Aboab

Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Douglas Adams

Lara Adrian

(c) Lara Adrian
Shai Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Dante [translated By Dorothy L. Sayers] Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Stephen E. Ambrose

H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Barbara De Angelis

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anonymous

Maggie Anton

Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
L. Achim von,ed. Arnim

Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805)
Keri Arthur

Courtesy of Keri Arthur.
Sholem Asch

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Libi Astaire

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Isaac Babel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Thomas P.M. Barnett

Naval War College Public Affairs Office photo by Jon Hockersmith
J. M. Barrie

John Barth

Jocques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Charles Baxter

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Menachem Begin

Photo by USAF MSgt Denham (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
James Scott Bell

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.)
Saul Bellow

Dovid Ben Gurion

David Ben Gurion, Premieminister (17 May 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLeonard Bernstein

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

Steve Berry
Bialik

Holly Black

Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

Giovanni (translated By Richard aldington)) Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Rhys Bowen

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nathaniel Branden

Tony Broadbent

Doug Menuez
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
Geraldine Brooks

Terry Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks

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

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Martin Buber

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Robert Burns

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

Seamus Kearney
lord byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
James M. Cain

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

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Peter. Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Ron Carlson

Caleb Carr

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

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Willa Sibert Cather

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

John Burlinson
Benvenuto (Bull Cellini, George)

Bennett A. (Editor) Cerf

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Wikimedia commons
Anton Chekhov

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Henry M. Christman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Winston Churchill, Sir

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

Susanna Clarke

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Francis S. Collins

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Edward Conlon

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
COOKE ALISTAIR

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
robin cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anthony H. Cordesman

Anthony H. Cordesman, Senior Fellow and Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
John Cornwell

Peter Corris

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
John Darnton

J. Player
Marcia Davenport

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

Moshe Dayan

Yael Dayan

Junot DÃaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Department of Defense

defenselink.mil
Hans Delbruck

Reproduction of old photo, in "Der Nachlaß Hans Delbrück", Horst Wolf (1980)
DON DELILLO

Nelson DeMille

Alan M. Dershowitz

Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Reader's Digest editors

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

P. C. Doherty

Paul Doiron

Photo by Mark Fleming
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Michael Drosnin

John Dufresne

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Alexandre Dumas

Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Umberto Eco

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

Elena Seibert
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Photo by John Holman
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Mary Anna Evans

Randy Batista, Media Image Photography
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Federal Bureau of Investigation

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, Washington, D.C.
(fbi.gov)
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Janet Fitch

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Vince Flynn

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Viktor E. Frankl

Photo © ÖNB/Wien
(
link)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Jean Froissart

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

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJohn Lewis Gaddis

Neil Gaiman

Nicole Galland

Solomon Ganzfried

Wikipedia
Geza Gardonyi

Bust of Géza Gárdonyi, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Roberta Gellis

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
EDWARD GIBBON

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Gilbert

Sandra M Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Jennifer Gilmore

Jennifer Gilmore (left), Ruth Andrew Ellenson, and Nina Revoyr
at the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGluckel

Bertha Pappenheim as Glikl bas Judah Leib (Glückel von Hameln)
RUMER GODDEN

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Lee Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Noah Gordon

Posie Graeme-Evans

posiegraemeevans.com
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Graham Greene

Kerry Greenwood

Martha GRIMES

Jacob Grimm

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

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Michael Gruber

Batya Gur

Photo by user Casaresricardo / Wikimedia Commons
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Haddam

www.booksnbytes.com
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
W. J Hardee

Lieutenant-General W.J. Hardee, C.S.A., etching from a photograph.
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Nathaniel HAwthorne

from Wikipedia
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
HEINRICH HEINE

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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

Photograph by Lily Henderson
O. Henry

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Chaim Herzog

www.president.gov.il
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Patrick Ruell

Tony Davis
JAMES HILTON

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

Wikimedia commons
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Wolfgang Hohlbein

wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Lawrence Houseman

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eva Ibbotson

Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Shirley Jackson

Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksKay redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Michael Jecks

Elfriede Jelinek

Bret Anthony Johnston

Robert Jordan

Morag Joss

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Stuart M. Kaminsky

Aryeh Kaplan

from a family photo
Stanley and the Editors of Life Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Michael Kaufman

Michael Kaufman 1951-
http://www.michaelkaufman.com
Jonathon Keats

Photo by Timothy Vollmer / Flickr
Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Paul M. Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Ronald Kessler

ronaldkessler.com
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Jonathon King

Susan Stocker
Stephen King

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

Ephraim Kishon

Henry Kissinger

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Abraham Isaac Kook

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-25595)
(cropped)
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Rochelle Krich

Paul Kriwaczek

Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Louis L'Amour

Langenscheidt

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

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Jerome Lawrence

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Stanislav Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Donna Leon

Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

Daniel J. Levitin

Sonia Levitin

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

By Leslie Howle
Laura Lippman

David Liss

Titus Livius Livy

from Wikipedia
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Robert Ludlum

Noah Lukeman

Arnold Lustiger

Photo by Holger Noß / Wikimedia Commons.
Ross MacDonald

Niccolò Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Alma Mahler

Gustav Mahler, Komponist, Oesterreich

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Moshe Maimonides

Thomas Mann

John P. Marquand

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

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.)
Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Archer Mayor

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Charles Mccarry

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Elizabeth Mcgregor

Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
John McManners

Hugh McManners
Sean Mcmullen

Rand McNally

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Wikimedia commons user Yidisheryid
Steven Millhauser

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Margaret Mitchell

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Benny Morris

Photo by user Aude / Wikimedia Commons
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Herta Müller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Irene Nemirovsky

Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Sharan Newman

Whitney Hall
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Carol O'Connell

Flannery O'Connor

John O'Hara

Michael B. Oren

Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
James Patterson

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Anne Perry

Marisha Pessl

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tamora Pierce

Christine De Pizan

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
J.B. Priestly

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

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

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

Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Yitzchak Rabin

Photo by SGT ROBERT G. CLAMBUS
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Naomi Regen

Toby Press, used with permission
Kathy Reichs

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
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
I. A. Richards

Jonathan Riley-Smith

MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
J.D. Robb

Flickr user Dev Librarian
By Henry Morton Robinson

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

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Romain Rolland

David Rosenbaum

Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Joseph Roth

Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
J. K Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

John Sandford

Jean-paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Harold Schechter

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
Annemarie Schimmel

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Menaòhem Mendel Schneersohn

Photo by Joshua Paquin / Flickr.
Frank Schatzing

Photo by user Chà Khang / Vietnamese Wikipedia
Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
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 ArtMichael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Photograph dated Dec. 12, 1938
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120969)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
David Shapiro

Photo by Jordan Davis
Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Gail Sheehy

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nevil Shute

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

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Bernie S. Siegel

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
Georges Simenon

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

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Wilbur A. Smith

C P Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic

Mickey Spillane

Johanna Spyri

The Chicago Press

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

WIkipedia
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
R. L. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Rebecca Stott

Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Gottfried von Strassburg

Peter Straub

Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Frank Tallis

Nicola Fox
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Joseph Telushkin

Stephen Z. Friedgood
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

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