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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Louisa May Alcott

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

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Rowan Atkinson

Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Hürth, Germany
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
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
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Kathy Burke

Photograph by Janet Parker
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Donn Byrne

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
John Le Carre

Michael Carrier

Ralph Alswang
Lewis Carroll

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)
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
A. J. Cronin

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

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
J. M. Dillard

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Alexandre Dumas

Gerald Durrell

George Eliot

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Lisa Endlich

Marion Ettlinger
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Francis 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

E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Dick Francis

Charles Frazier

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Alex Garland

Bill Gates

Bob Geldof

Credit: Barbara Mürdter, 1991
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Bret Harte

Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
O. Henry

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

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Wendy Holden

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Thomas Hood

from "The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3" (Project Gutenberg text #16786)
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Peter Jackson

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of director Peter Jackson, not software writer Peter Jackson.
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Jack Kerouac

Dick King-Smith

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Erich Kastner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Elizabeth Laird

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stan Lee

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jack London

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

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

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
James Marshall

Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews
www.andrewmatthews.com
W.Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne du Maurier

Geraldine McCaughrean

Frank McCourt

Colleen McCullough

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Margaret Mitchell

E. Nesbitt

Edith Nesbit
Sara Paretsky

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Penguin

Sidewalk Advertising, Fitzrovia, London. Photo by user Albarella / Flickr.
Victoria Holt

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

from Wikipedia
Oxford

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Chris Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Miguel de Cervantes

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

William Shakespear

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nevil Shute

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Alexander Smith

Frontispiece to the book, Dreamthorp, by Alexander Smith, this edition published in 1890
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Wilbur Smith

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
Frank Stockton

See below.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Morton Rhue

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Jeremy Taylor

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various Authors

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
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.
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
P.G. Wodehouse

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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