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Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Bryan Adams

Christine V. of Germany (Dublin, 2005)
Douglas Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Svetlana Alliluyeva

Wikipedia
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Karin Alvtegen

Micke Lundström
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Merete Morken Andersen

Photo: Anna Opheim
Bonnie S. Anderson

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Art Garfunkel

Helen Ashton

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Steve Augarde

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Tash Aw

mathieu bourgois
Alfred Ayer

Christine Aziz

Trezza Azzopardi

J.S.Bach

Wikipedia.
Enid Bagnold

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

Library of Congress
R M Ballantyne

wikipedia
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
(AP Watt)
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Sebastian Barry

Roland Barthes

Susan Bassnett

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Charles Baxter

The Beatles

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Simone de Beauvoir

The Bee Gees

Lou72JG, 1996
Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Phyllis Bentley

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

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

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

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Holley Bishop

Photograph by Trix Rosen
Malorie Blackman

Mary Black

Max Pride, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
David Bowie

Arthur, September 25, 2006
Paul Bowles

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
E.R Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Alan Brennert

Photo: Monica Schwartz
Charlotte Brewer

Julia Briggs

Raymond Briggs

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burns

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

Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord Byron

Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Cambridge

1913
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Eric Carle

John Le Carre

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Howard Carter

Willa Cather

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

photo by Philip Chaon
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)
Mavis Cheek

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anton Chekhov

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

Harriet Scott Chessman

Micah Wolf
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Maxine Clair

Aaron Paden/University Relations, University of Kansas.
Eric Clapton

Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Susanna Clarke

Philippe Claudel

Marika Cobbold

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jonathan Coe

J.M. Coetzee

Babette Cole

Christine Coleman

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
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Duff Cooper

Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
John Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell

Mrs Craik

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

Photo by Bob Jesson
Sheryl Crow

Dan Eidsmoe
David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Dymphna Cusack

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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Eleanor Dark

Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Carol Anne Davis

carolannedavis.wanadoo.co.uk
Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
E.M. Delafield

Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Don DeLillo

Joolz Denby

Kiran Desai

Neil Diamond

Irisgerh
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Ernest Dimnet

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Doctorow E. L.

Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
John Donne

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Elaine Dundy

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Douglas Dunn

Fay Godwin
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Alice Thomas Ellis

Isobel English

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Zoe Fairbairns

Photo by Roderick Field
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Fat Boy Slim

Credit: daniel m (Flickr user), 2006
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Patricia Ferguson

Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
Helen Fielding

Orlando Figes

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

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

Clare Francis

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Peter Gadol

Photo by Art Gray
Neil Gaiman

Ernest J Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jane Gardam

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Lisa Gardner

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Adele Geras

George Gershwin

Carl Van Vechten (1937)
Brent Ghelfi

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Giotto

Credit: Frieda (Wikipedia), 2004, Firenze, Italy
George Gissing

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Glenn Miller

Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

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

E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Juan Gomez Jurado

Tomatox1968
Martin Goodman

Nicholas Hawkins
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Neil Grant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ashna Graves

Graham Greene

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

George Grossmith

public domain image
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arlo Guthrie

Photograph by John Kloepper, Guthrie Family Tour (Wikipedia)
John Guy

Author's website
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Sophie Hannah

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kate Harrison

Photo © 2003 Michael Gray
Robert Harris

Adam Hart-Davis

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Julie Hearn

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Herodotus

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
C. Walter Hodges

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

© Jess Barber 2004
Katharine Holabird

Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Andrew Hook

Mary Hooper

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.E. Housman

M. V. Hughes

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Kathryn Hulme

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
M.J. Hyland

Eva Ibbotson

Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Dan Jacobson

Henry James

Wikipedia
Storm Jameson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Richard Jefferies

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Elton John

Wikipedia user jibegod
John Renbourn

Uploaded to Flickr by user Thom C
Gail Jones

Terry Jones

Scott Joplin

[Portrait of Scott Joplin], taken from
American Musician (June 17, 1907). Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress.
(
memory.loc.gov)
James Joyce

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

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Fergal Keane

M.J. Farrell

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Hugh Kenner

Kenny G

Craig O'Neal, May 16, 2007.
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Carole King

Federal Office of Representative Eni Faleomavaega of American Samoa
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Dick King-Smith

Rudyard Kipling

Guido Knopp

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Erich Kastner

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Elizabeth Laird

Nikita Lalwani

credit: Vik Sharma
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Aaron Lansky

Philip Larkin

Gretchen Moran Laskas

Photo by Zoe Cohen/ZLC Design
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Halldor Laxness

Leadbelly

Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) and Martha Promise Ledbetter: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00660)
F. R Leavis

Harper Lee

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

Jane Brown
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
John Lennon

Annie Lennox

nemahziz, 4 September 2004
Donna Leon

Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Amy Levy

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Cecil Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Alison Light

Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
Toby Litt

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Longfellow H.W.

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Georg Lukacs

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Niccolo Machiavelli

Alistair Macleod

University of Windsor
Matt Madden

Luigi Novi
Brenda Maddox

Adeline Yen Mah

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Nelson Mandela

Barry Manilow

Credit: Matt Becker, St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 11, 2008
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Photo © Jeremy Balderson
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Russell Martin

Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
William 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

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Geraldine McCaughrean

Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Melanie McGrath

Ami McKay

Ian McKay
Rod McKuen

McKuen with Grete Keller: Image ©
ÖNB/WienMendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Edna St Vincent Millay

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

Photo by Rul Xavier
Arthur Miller

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

Zenohockey
Kate Millett

A.A. Milne

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

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Joni Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Vilhelm Moberg

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

Richard Montanari

Dominic Richard
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Van Morrison

Credit: Art Siegel, Feb.22, 2007,
Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, Calif.
William Morris

From Wikipedia
John Mortimer

Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Kate Moses

Claire Lewis
Kate Mosse

Natasha Mostert

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Jill Murphy

V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Soseki Natsume

Irene Nemirovsky

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Olivia Newton John

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 1998 (Wikimedia Commons)
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Garth Nix

Linda Nochlin

NYU Institute of Fine Arts
Amelie Nothomb

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna Obrien

Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Sharon Olds

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Ruth L. Ozeki

Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Tom Paxton

From the State Library and Archives of Florida
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Pentangle

Bryan Ledgard, 2007
Marisha Pessl

Henry Petroski

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Pink Floyd

Tim Duncan
Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Roy Porter

Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Dawn Powell

Beth Powning

Photo by Peter Powning
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alf Proysen

Dorling Kindersley

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

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
Rachmaninov

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-33968)
(cropped)
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Raymond Radiguet

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