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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Qanta A. Ahmed

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Letitia Baldrige

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J. M. Barrie

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Max Barry

© dejahthoris : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Max_Barry_1.JPG
Chris Barzak

Nebula nominee Christopher Barzak
with editor Liz Gorinsky at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganNicholas A. Basbanes

Jennifer Baumgardner

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Charles Baxter

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simone De Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

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

David Benioff

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Bill Bishop

Photo by Karin S. Bishop (Wikipedia)
Holly Black

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
David Bodanis

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Blanche Mccrary Boyd

Ray Bradbury

Barbara Branden

David Harmon
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
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)
Max Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
James Burke

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
PhD David M Buss

Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Tim Cahill

James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

James P. Carse

http://www.jamescarse.com
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Margaret Cavendish

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Stepan Chapman

Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Geoffrey Chaucer

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Authur C. Clarke

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

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
J. M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John collier

Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephanie Coontz

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Avram Davidson

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis

Richard Dawkins

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Alan Deniro

Kate McGough
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
August Derleth

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
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
Stephen R. Donaldson

Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Elaine Dundy

Mark Dunn

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)
David Edmonds

Greg Van Eekhout

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Beverly Engel

Buddy Rosenberg
Sam Enthoven

Self-portrait by the author!
Kelley Eskridge

Photo by Nicola Griffith
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Barry Farber

Barry Farber.
William Faulkner

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

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Charles Finney, G.

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.)
Janet Fitch

F. 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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Shelby Foote

Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Viktor E. Frankl

Pat Frank

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

Jonathan L. Freedman

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
CHRISTOPHER FRY

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Steve Fuller

Universidad de Navarra
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst

Michel Gagne

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
Neil Gaiman

Marcia M. Gallo

Courtesy of the author.
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
William Gibson

Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Spike Gillespie

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Seth Godin

Gail Godwin

Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Nikolai Gogol

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

Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Kathleen Ann Goonan

Permission of KAG.
John Steele Gordon

Photo by Marcell Vandehaar, 1996
Ariel Gore

Photo by Tiffany Talbott
Anglica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Alasdair Gray

A. C. Grayling

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thich Nhat Hanh

Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Chris Harman

© 2009 Hossam el-Hamalawy
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
Brent Hartinger

Photo by Tim Cathersal
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Marc Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Paul Hawken

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
N. Katherine Hayles

Dave Pape
Seamus Heaney

Chip Heath

Chip and Dan Heath (Photo by Nathan Borror, Flickr)
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Chris Hedges

Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Daniel A. Helminiak

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Howard V. Hendrix

E.M. Anzelmo
O. Henry

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

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nalo Hopkinson

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Jane Jacobs

Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Henry James

Wikipedia
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Melissa Joulwan

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Jonathon Keats

Photo by Timothy Vollmer / Flickr
Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Robert Kirkman

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Alex Kotlowitz

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Leena Krohn

Anneli Salo
Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
George Lakoff

Joel Lane

Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Emanuel Lasker

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

Mark Lilla

Elena Seibert
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
David Lindsay

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucretius

Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Ken MacLeod

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Laurie J. Marks

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Richard Matheson

Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson Mccullers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Maureen F. McHugh

PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP

Adrianna Dane
Emma Mclaughlin

Sean Mcmullen

John McWhorter

James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
China Mieville

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Donald Miller

Jaci Gresham, October 11, 2006
Laura Miller

Nancy Crampton
Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A.A. Milne

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Richard K. Morgan

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Farley Mowat

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Catherine Murdock

Photo by Greg Martin
David G. Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore
(defenselink.mil)
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Patrick Ness

Annalee Newitz

Joi Ito
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Cory Doctorow, September 1, 2007
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anders Brekhus Nilsen

Photo by Kevin Church, view his photo stream on
Flikr.
Anais Nin

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJoyce Carol Oates

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

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

Sharon Olds

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Milorad Pavic

Stef Penney

John Perkins

Marisha Pessl

David Petersen

NYCC 2009
Julie Anne Peters

Courtesy of the author
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Kevin Phillips

Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Tamora Pierce

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

www.thegeniusfactory.net
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Rachel Pollack

Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Karl Popper

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Francois Rabelais

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ayn Rand

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

Western Carolina University
Piers Paul Read

Marcus Rediker

Used with permission from author, Marcus Rediker.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Nina Revoyr

Carolyn Kellogg and Nina Revoyr (right)
at 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganAlastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Matthieu Ricard

Polaroid of Matthieu Ricard taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (Wikimedia)
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

Justina Robson

Marie-Jeanne Roland

Madame Roland in 1787 painted by Adelaide Labille-Guiard,
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
J. K. Rowling

Matt Ruff

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
V Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Brad Schoenfeld

Karl Schroeder

DaVe Hogg
Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
David J. Schwartz

Photo by Heidi Ehalt
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Ekaterina Sedia

Tait Chirenje
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Martin E. Seligman

Martin E.P. Seligman
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
President, American Psychological Association, 1998
Seneca

Julia Serano

atp_tyreseus, June 19, 2007
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Michael Shermer

Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sharon Shinn

David K. Shipler

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Clay Shirky

"Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media."
Nevil Shute

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

Tom Siddell, UK webComix Thing 2007, London. Photo by Adam Hodgson / Flickr.
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Amanda Hemingway

Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Charles Simic

Library of Congress
Georg Simmel

Dan Simmons

UPTON SINCLAIR

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Jeff Smith

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

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Lynn Spencer

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Laurence Sterne

Brooke Stevens

brookestevens.com
George R. Stewart

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

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Sean Stewart

Stephen M. Stigler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
S. M. Stirling

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Andrew Sullivan

Trey Ratcliff
Tricia Sullivan

triciasullivan.co.uk
Cass R. Sunstein

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link)
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