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Unknown

Paperback Pirate
Peter Abelard

Louisa May Alcott

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Lloyd Alexander

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Kevin Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Bede Venerablis

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
David Bevington

Ancius Boethius

M. E. Braddon

Sebastian Brant

Project Gutenberg
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
Robert Browning

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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Judith Butler

Jreberlein
George Gordon Byron

Baldassarre Castiglione, conte

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Agatha Christie

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
P.C. Doherty

Stephen R. Donaldson

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harlan Ellison

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

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

William Goldman

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

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Samuel Johnson

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

Stephen King

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
C. S. Lewis

Matthew Gregory 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)
Guillaume De Lorris

Jennifer Louden

Chris Mosio
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
John Lydgate

Here begynneth the testament of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry (London: Richard Pynson, 1520)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Tim McCreight

W.S.MERWIN

(c) Matthew Schwart
John Milton

Margaret Mitchell

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Marty Noble

Ovid

Iain Pears

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Christine de Pisan

from Wikipedia
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Rachael Ray

The Heart Truth
Cheryl Richardson

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
J.K. Rowling

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Edmund Spenser

Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

J.R.R. Tolkien

Peter Beresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Various

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Jacobus de Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
Horace Walpole

Jill Paton Walsh

Brian Weiss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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.
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
William Wycherley

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