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Edward Abbey

Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Forrest J. Ackerman

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Arthur Agatston

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Saul Bellow

Gregory Benford

David Benioff

Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Jorge Luis Borges

Ben Bova

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

David Brin

By R. Feist
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Dee Brown

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Algis Budrys

Shunn
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Anthony Burgess

James Burke

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
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)
Orson Scott Card

George Carlin

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Anton Chekhov

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Ted Chiang

Elze Hamilton
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Deepak Md Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Photo by Roland Godefroy
John Collier

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmerican National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Peter Crowther

promotional image
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Ellen DeGeneres

Credit: Alan Light, 2004, Los Angeles,
Oprah Winfrey's birthday party
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Ray

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)
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Disney

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

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

Harlan Ellison

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Neil Gaiman

Holly George-Warren

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/Cropped)
William Gibson

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Seth Godin

William Golding

William Goldman

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

Graham Greene

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 HoganJoe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Jim Henson

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1989
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.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
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)
James Hilton

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

Wikipédia France
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
J. Mike Jacka

Shirley Jackson

David Jacobs

James Joyce

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

James Patrick Kelly

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Dean Koontz

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
R.A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Harper Lee

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

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

John Burlinson
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Kevin Markey

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Anne McCaffrey

Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dennis Miller

Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Steven Millhauser

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
George Orwell

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

Allison Shirreefs
Henry Petroski

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsEdgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Jerry Pournelle

David A. Price

© 2003 Simon Bruty
Thomas Pynchon

David Rakoff

Author: Larry D. Moore
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mike Resnick

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Fred Saberhagen

J. D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtBen Sherwood

Nevil Shute

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

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Zadie Smith

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
J. Michael Straczynski

At the 2007 New York Comic-Con.
Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Hunter S. Thompson

The New York Times

Robert Scoble
James Tiptree Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Kennedy Toole

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Stewart L. Udall

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
John Varley

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Oscar Wilde

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

1984 photo (credit: Wikipedia user Towpilot, Oct. 1984)
Thornton Wilder

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

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tom Wolfe

Donald Wollheim, A.

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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