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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Peter Adkison

Alan De Smet (Source: Wikipedia)
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Aaron Allston

photo taken by Larry D. Moore; from Wikimedia Commons
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Ken St. Andre

----Ken St. Andre
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Samuel Beckett

Brendan Behan

Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
Walter Benjamin

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Herbert P. Bix

Columbia University
Isaac Bonewits

Jorge Luis Borges

Malcolm Bradbury


Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Herbie Brennan

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Ed Brubaker

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Bulfinch


Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Kurt Busiek

Photo by khaosworks
Lord Byron

James M. Cain

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

Eddie Campbell

Picture by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Frank Chadwick

Game Designer and Author Frank Chadwick at the 2005 Origins Gaming Convention.
Robert W. Chambers

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

Howard Chaykin von Wintergeist bei Flickr
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2992688239_815befc5e9_b.jpg
Anton Chekhov

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen on the left. Photo by Rita Molnar, Cannes Film Festival 2001
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

William W. Connors

by KL Connors
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Darwyn Cooke

Monte Cook

Greg Costikyan

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
Clarence Day

Stephen Dedman

photo by Scott Edelman
Troy Denning

Troy Denning, Lucas Comics & Games, 2007.
Photo by user torre.elena / flickr.
Jared Diamond


Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
E. L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Emily K. Dresner-Thornber

Emily Dresner

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Umberto Eco

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

Photo courtesy of Bill Corrie, from the Indie RPG Awards website.
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
T.S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler

Harlan Ellison

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

From Wikipedia
Michael Erlewine

James Estes

Photograph by Derek Jones
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edward FitzGerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
George MacDonald Fraser

Christopher Fry

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

William Gibson

Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

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

Maxim Gorki

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

from Wikipedia
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray


Graham Greene

J. L. C. Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

Gary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Gareth Hanrahan

Chris Hartford

Photo by Kit Hartford
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Robert Hass

Jeff Hawkins

Photo © Esther Dyson
Seamus Heaney

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)
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.
George Herriman

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Christopher Hitchens

Kenneth Hite

Photo by Lilithcat
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Robert E. Howard

Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Charles Jackson

Carl Van Vechten
Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Brian Jacques

M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Sam Johnson

Congressman Sam Johnson b. 1930 (U.S. Congressional Office)
Samuel Johnson

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

Photo by Bruce Jones
Leif Jones

Photo of Leif and his wife Sarah Vendetti in Central Park
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Franz Kafka

Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Nikita Khrushchev

Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Bret Kramer

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Philip Larkin

Comte de Lautréamont

Fritz Leiber

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C. S. Lewis

Jeph Loeb

Federico García Lorca

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolò Machiavelli

Charles MacKay

Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Hal Mangold

Photo by Hank Mitchell
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cotton Mather

from Wikipedia
Winsor McCay

1906
Scott Mccloud

Marshall McLuhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
China Miéville

Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
Arthur Miller

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

John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Grant Morrison

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Wikipédia France
Ogden Nash

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

Pablo Neruda

Fabian Nicieza

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Dennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
Eugene O'Neill

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

George Orwell

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

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Fernando Pessoa

David Petersen

NYCC 2009
Sandy Petersen

Phil Hibbs (Source: Wikipedia)
Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Paul Pope

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Lord Raglan

Family photo of Lord Raglan standing in front of Raglan Castle
James Randi

Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2007
Robert Rankin

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Scott Rice

Photo by Richard B. Ressman
Rainer Maria Rilke

Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaKim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Sax Rohmer

Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Annie Rush


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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)
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sir Walter Scott

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

Seung Sahn

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
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
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)
Dan Slott

Luigi Novi
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
University of Chicago Press Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Mark Strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
J. M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
J.R.R. Tolkien

Alexei Tolstoi

Photography (before 1946)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Dalton Trumbo

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Brian J. Underhill

Photo by Peggysue Spencer
John Updike

Martha Updike
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Matt Wagner

From Matt Wagner
Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Alan Weisman

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienPaul Wells

Mark Barnes
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Luigi Novi
Tennessee Williams

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

P. G. Wodehouse

W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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