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D'Arcy Norman
Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
woody allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Lester Bangs

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
David P. Barash

Julian Barbour

From the author's website www.platonia.com
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Dave Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
John Barth

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Saul Bellow

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas Berger

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Walter Berns

Walter Berns, receiving the National Humanities Medal, 2005. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Roy Blount

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Boethius

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Ben Bova (ed.)

Paul Bowles

Joe Boyd

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Stewart Brand

James Henry Breasted

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

Susie Bright

David Brin

By R. Feist
Damien Broderick

Barbara Lamar
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)
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Dee Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Algis Budrys

Shunn
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Bob Burden

"Pinguino"
Anthony Burgess

James Burke

James MacGregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Donn Byrne

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
James M. Cain

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

Photo by user SayCheeeeeese / Wikimedia Commons.
John Cale

Bart Cabanier
Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Capra Fritjof

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Caleb Carr

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

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll (ill. Mervyn Peake)

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Photo created by NASA
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Stepan Chapman

Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Roz Chast

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Chaucer

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

Kim Chernin

C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G. K. Chesterton

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

Elze Hamilton
John Chowning

Source: Prof. John Chowning
Robert Christgau

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Elze Hamilton
J. M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Eoin Colfer

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

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Steven Caldwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
David P. Currie

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Jack Dann (ed.)

Catriona Sparks
Charles Darwin

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

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis

Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Lester Del Rey

Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Joan Didion

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
E.L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois (Ed.)

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Theodore Dreiser

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

Photographer unknown
Alexandre Dumas

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Baron

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Esther Dyson

Joi Ito
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

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

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

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ellis Richard

Stephanie Guest
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Jane Espenson

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2006
Amitai Etzioni

Photo © Esther Dyson
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Philip José. Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Charles G. Finney

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.)
Bill Fitzhugh

billfitzhugh.com
Gustave Flaubert

John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Anatole France

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

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Pat Frank

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Frank (ed.)

Wikimedia Commons
George MacDonald Fraser

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
R Buckminster Fuller

William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
John Gay

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

AndreÌ Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Philip Glass

Albert Glinsky

Photo by Lisa Kohler
God

Iridescent Glory of Nearby Helix Nebula (aka The Eye of God) as photographed by The Hubble Telescope
Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).
Nikolai Gogol

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

William Goldman

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Gunter Grass

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

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganWoody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Gary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
Joe W. Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Joseph Hansen

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Keith Hartman

David G Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Nick Herbert

James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Chester B. Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
P. C. Hodgell

copyright David Lenander
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
Nick Hornby

Robert E Howard

Fred Hoyle, Sir

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
L. Ron Hubbard

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives, around 1889. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Shirley Jackson

Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
William James

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

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Jerome K. Jerome

Penn Jillette

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1988
Samuel Johnson

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Gwyneth Jones

Lynne Fox
Terry Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

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

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Franz Kafka

Michio Kaku

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

photo by Brian Velenchenko
James Patrick Kelly

Ken Kesey

John Kessel

Donald Kingsbury

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
W.P. Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Jerzy Kosinski

Peter D. Kramer

Leena Krohn

Anneli Salo
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Akira Kurosawa

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

Credit: Michael Lutch
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Par Lagerkvist

Manuel Muji Lainez

R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueAndrew Lang

wikipedia
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Lem Stanisla

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
David Lindsay

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
James Lovegrove

Katie Vandyck
George MacDonald

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.)
Ken MacLeod

Magnus Albertus, Saint

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Leonard Maltin

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne Du Maurier, Dame

Scott Mccloud

Sharyn Mccrumb

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Thomas McGuane

Audrey Hall
Maureen F. McHugh

Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Patricia A. Mckillip

Adrianna Dane
Rand McNally

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John H. McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
James A. Michener

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

Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Tony Millionaire

Eisner Awards @ Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
John Milton

Margaret Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
C. L. Moore

John Burlinson
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Ward Moore

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

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Julian of Norwich

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery Oconnor

Scott O'Dell

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
Jack Olsen

www.jackolsen.com
Tillie Olsen

Oliver Onions

Photo from The War Illustrated, 31 July 1915,
via WikipediaJoe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Milorad Pavić

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Petronius

Henry Petroski

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsMarge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Luigi Pirandello

Robert Pirsig

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Rachel Pollack

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Karl Raimund Popper, Sir

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Francis Gary Powers

Wikipedia (U.S. Government Photo)
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
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

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Odilon Redon

Self-portrait, 1880, Musée d'Orsay
Kit Reed

kitreed.net
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienGraham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Tom Robbins

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
John Rockwell

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
M. J. Rose

Photo by Michael Bergman
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
J. K. Rowling

Rudolf Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Matt Ruff

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Liz Henry
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J. D. Salinger

Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Scalzi

Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Karl Schroeder

DaVe Hogg
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Walter Scott, Sir

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

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