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Douglas Adams

Louisa May Alcott

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Mary Antin

Mary Antin & sister Fetchke as infant children. Project Gutenberg
Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim Russell

John Burlinson
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
J. M. Barrie

Bede

Quentin Bell

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Kyril Bonfiglioli

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Anne Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
John Bunyan; illustrations by William Blake

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
translated by Richard F. Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

from Wikipedia
Laura Claridge

J. M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
John Cornwell

Jim Crace

e. e. cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Hal Duncan

taleswapper
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
George Eliot

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

Alice Thomas Ellis

Ralph Ellison

Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

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

Connie Miller
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Introduction by John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Harold Frederic

See below.
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNeil Gaiman

Hamlin Garland

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

Molly Giles

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Goethe; trans. by John Anster

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

Jerry Bauer
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Henry Green

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Translated by Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
St. Ignatius Loyola

wikimedia commons
Shirley Jackson

Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Ruins of Bury St. Edmond's Abbey, Suffolk, England, 2003. Photo by Bob Jones / Geograph Project
James Joyce

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
John Keats

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

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
Milan Kundera

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Gypsy Rose Lee

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

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

Jane Brown
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Martin Luther

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Burton G. Malkiel

Prof. Burton Gordon Malkiel. Photo by J.D. Levine/Yale (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Daphne Du Maurier

Robert Mccrum

Carson Mccullers

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

Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Brent Monahan

Brent Monahan
by Caitlin Monahan
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard K. Morgan

Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Julian of Norwich

Flannery O'Connor

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
George Orwell

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

Melissa Ann Pinney
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Jaroslav Pelikan

Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Robbins

Arundhati Roy

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Sappho

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Stephen Spender

Edmund Spenser

John Steinbeck

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

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Kate Summerscale

Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Mother Teresa

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Leo Tolstoy; trans. Constance Garnett

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Calvin Trillin

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

Virgil

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

P. Blitzer
Francois Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Jean Webster

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
E.B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde; Introduction Vyvyan Holland

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.
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Ben Witherington

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.)
P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
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