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Aeschylus

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
alain fournier

Wikipédia France
Sherman Alexie

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Michelangelo. Antonioni

Elena Torre
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Trezza Azzopardi

Melissa Bank

Djuna Barnes

public domain
John Barth

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Gertrude Bell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-08277)
(cropped)
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ingmar Bergman

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sarah Bird

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1, 2008
Herbert P. Bix

Columbia University
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Deutsch Post AG and Rosemarie Clausen / Wikimedia Commons
Paul Bowles

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arthur Bradford

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
berkeley breathed

Eye on Books
Andre Breton

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Herb Caen

Columbia University
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Frank Case

Frank Case, 1933. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Stephen Chbosky

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

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

Jean Cocteau

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

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Jonathan Coe

John Collier

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Noel Coward

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

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
August William Derleth

Jacques Derrida

Jared Diamond

J. P. Donleavy

Gustave Dore

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Charles M. Doughty

Theodore Dreiser

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

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Photographed by Edwin Locke, Feb. 1937
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-4225-M4)
Sheridan Le Fanu

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo by Christy Williams
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Brendan Gill

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

Wikipédia France
Glen Gold

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Henry Green

Michelle Green

Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Hesiod

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Foster Hirsch

Vera Jaffe
A.M. Homes

Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nick Hornby

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

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

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

Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
James Joyce

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

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Robert Koch

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
LautreÌamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

John P. Marquand

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

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Patrick Mccabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
James Mcdonough

Natalia Wisdom
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Robert McNamara

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Rick Moody

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
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)
Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Steve Niles

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

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

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Lynn Peril

Photo by Jane Townley.
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Salvador Plascencia

Dawn Powell

William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Diana Preston

Thomas Pynchon

Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Thomas De Quincey

Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMarilynne Robinson

J.K. Rowling

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Budd Schulberg

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118219
Ingo Schulze

Credit: Caren Müller, 2004, Berlin, Germany
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Margery Sharp

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Zadie Smith

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Brooke Stevens

brookestevens.com
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Dylan Thomas

Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Niall McDermind
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
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/WienNathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Tennessee Williams

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

Edmund Wilson

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

Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
P.G. Wodehouse

David Wojnarowicz

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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