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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Alaric Adair

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Mitch Albom

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

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

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Clare Allan

Maggie Hannan
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sarah Addison Allen

L.Allen
Steve Almond

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
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Kate Atkinson

Sir David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Christine Aziz

R. M Ballantyne

wikipedia
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Sebastian Barry

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (7 September 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Benson

Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Holley Bishop

Photograph by Trix Rosen
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Edward 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)
Russell Brand

Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.
Anne Brontë

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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown


Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Cathy Marie Buchanan

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Tom Butler-Bowdon

Lewis Buzbee

Lord Byron

Carole Cadwalladr

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)
Charles Chaplin

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

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Eric Clark

Photo by Aprile Clark
Stephen Clarke

Esby
Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Paulo Coelho

Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen on the left. Photo by Rita Molnar, Cannes Film Festival 2001
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Gregory Curtis

Photo © 2006 Wyatt McSpadden
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)
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Richard Dawkins

E.M. Delafield

Charles Dickens

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

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
F.M. Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Stephen J. Dubner

Wikimedia Commons
Alexandre Dumas

Gerald Durrell

Sir Arthur Eddington

Imogen Edwards-Jones

Kim Edwards

George Eliot

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

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Joanne Fluke

murdershebaked.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox with wife Tracy Pollen,
1988, 40th Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

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

Alex Garland

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
William Golding

William Goldman

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

The Warburg Institute
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jane Grigson

Jacob Grimm

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

Robert C. Gruen
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.

Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Robert Harris

Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Zoë Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

Thomas Hughes

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

wikipedia
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Photo by L.J. Knightstep
Elisabeth Hyde

A.J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Jerome K. Jerome

Rachel Johnson

Colin Jones

Griff Rhys Jones

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Franz Kafka

John Keats

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Verlyn Klinkenborg

© 2005 Lindy Smith
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Sharon Krum

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Christian Lander

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
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
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Jim Lovell

Photo created by NASA
Robert Ludlum

Andrew Lycett

Author photo: Susan Greenhill
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Groucho Marx

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

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDaphne du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Anne McCaffrey

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Henry Miller

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

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

John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Santa Montefiore

Adam Brown
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Peter Moore

petermoore.net
Michelle Moran

Matthew Carter
Jan Morris

Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Kate Mosse

Kate Muir

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Edith Nesbit
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Florence Nightingale

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

Garth Nix

Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susie Orbach

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Marisha Pessl

Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Sylvia Plath

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcia Preston

marciapreston.com
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Gordon Ramsay

Mary Renault

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris

Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Sharman Apt Russell

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
Sir 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
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Laren Stover

Laren Stover author photo by Marion Ettlinger
Kate Summerscale

Matthew Sweet

Tom McShane
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
W. M. Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Robert M. Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Salley Vickers

Danny Wallace

Frank Warren

Eye on Books
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E.B. White

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

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.
Elizabeth Wilson

Marie Winn

Photo by Charles Kennedy
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Sir Leonard Woolley

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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