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Chinua Achebe

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Louisa May Alcott

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Lloyd Alexander

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Samuel Beckett

Ray Bradbury

Anne Bronte

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Charles Brockden Brown

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anthony Burgess

Frances Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Stephen Chbosky

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Paulo Coelho

Colette

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings

George Eliot

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

murdershebaked.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo

Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
William Golding

Jacob Grimm

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

photo by Jerry Bauer
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Kate Jacobs

Eloisa James

Amanda Stevenson Lupke
C. G. Jung

Stephen King

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

Julie Klassen

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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.)
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
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.)
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Arthur Miller

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Margaret Mitchell

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Anais Nin

George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
J. K. Rowling

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Chris Tusa

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

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

from Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
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