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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Louisa May Alcott

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

Horatio Alger

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sergio Aragones

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Shalom Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Chris Bachelder

Photo by Jenn Habel
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Steve Bogira

© 2004 Jack Demuth
Jorge Luis Borges

Tom Bradby

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
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)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Martin Buber

Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
William Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Lewis Carroll


Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (Photo credit: Wolfgang Stuck, Sept. 2004)
Anton Pavlovich 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)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
J. California Cooper

Photo Courtesy of National Book Club Conference founder Curtis Bunn
Jim Crace

David Crystal

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Kathryn Davis

Emma Dodge Hanson photgraphy.
There is no permission to reproduce.
Don DeLillo

G V Desani

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Stephen Dobyns

John Donne

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
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Daniel Drennan

Alexandre Dumas

Elaine Dundy

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Mark Dunn

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

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

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott (1960- )
Photo by Alan Light, September 17, 1989, 41st Emmy Awards
(Flickr attribution license)
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Frantz Fanon

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons

Charles Fourier

from History of the World, H. F. Helmholt (ed.) (1901)
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Neil Gaiman

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Elizabeth Gilbert

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Martha Grimes

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Geri Halliwell

Kura.kun, 2008
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Aleksandar Hemon

Herodotus

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

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
Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Al Jaffee

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
Henry James

Wikipedia
P D James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Hugh Kenner

Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

John Kessel

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Milan Kundera

Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Henry W. Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Groucho Marx

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

Credit: Vandamm Studio
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Maureen F. McHugh

Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Joe Meno

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Christiane Md Northrup

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Novalis

Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Elaine Pagels

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

Misa Martin
Sara Paretsky

Robert B. Parker

Milorad Pavic

Octavio Paz

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Neal Pollack

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Odilon Redon

Self-portrait, 1880, Musée d'Orsay
Hans Richter

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Tom Robbins

Chris Roberts

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson


John Ruskin

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

Periodista digital.com
George Saunders

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

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Walter Scott

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

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw! (illustrator). Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Georges Simenon

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

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
University of Chicago

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Christina Stead

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sean Stewart

Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress
Hsüeh Tao

David Schroeter, February 15, 2007
Alfred Tennyson

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Henry David Thoreau

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

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Tzu Sun

Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Virgil

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


David Foster Wallace


Eudora Welty

Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Naomi Wolf

Stuart Woods

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fareed Zakaria

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Oct. 30, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
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