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Diana Abu-Jaber

Scott Eason
Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
ANN BEATTIE

MDCarchives
Robin Behn

University of Alabama
Viken Berberian

Esby
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Caleb Carr

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Winston Churchill

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

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
Robertson Davies

Don DeLillo

ANITA DESAI

denton@speakeasy.net
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sarah Dunant

Stephen Dunn

Columbia University
Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Ralph Ellison

Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Joshua Ferris

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Alan Furst

Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. LeGuin

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Neil Harris

Photo by Lilithcat
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Ben Hecht

Ernest (Carlos Baker Hemingway, Edited)

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

Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ricky Jay

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Stefan Kanfer

Andrew Castle
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Ivan Klima

Milan Kundera

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
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.
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
David Liss

Penelope Lively

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Groucho Marx

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

Jane Mayer, journalist born 1955 (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
John Mcphee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Arthur Miller

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

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
ALICE MUNRO

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Barack Obama

Achy Obejas

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Flannery O'Connor

Sharon Olds

George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Maxwell E. Perkins

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-111615)
Marisha Pessl

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Sylvia Plath

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Francine Prose

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rainer Maria Rilke

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Theodore Roethke

Liz Rosenberg

GEOFF GOULD
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
W. G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Maurice Sendak

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 ArtAnne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
University of Chicago Press Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Christina Stead

Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
John Vernon

University of Binghamton
Anne Waldman

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Alan Weisman

Edmund White

Richard Wilbur

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
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