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Daniel Abraham

Catriona Sparks
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Louisa M. Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Sherman Alexie

Dean Francis Alfar

by Dean Francis Alfar
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Lou Anders

Catriona Sparks
Chris Anderson

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

National Park Service
Aristotle

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

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Neal L. Asher

Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
George Axelrod

Paolo Bacigalupi

Brad Ackerman
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Bill Barnes

Photo provided by Bill Barnes
William E. Barton

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

Nebula nominee Christopher Barzak
with editor Liz Gorinsky at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganElizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Edward Bellamy

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

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Buffalo Bill

Mora
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Alex Bledsoe

Courtesy of Alex Bledsoe.
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Gil Brewer

David Brin

By R. Feist
D G Brinton

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Ken Bruen

Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Mark Budz

Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

Chelsea Cain

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Jay Caselberg

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Robert W. Chambers

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

Elze Hamilton
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur C. Clarke

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

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (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)
Paul Cornell

Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Peter Crowther

promotional image
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Avram Davidson

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Stephen Dedman

photo by Scott Edelman
Alan Deniro

Kate McGough
August Derleth

Charles Dickens

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

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

David Dodge (1910-1974).
Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Alexandre Dumas père

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
David Louis Edelman

Photo by Victoria Edelman
Greg Van Eekhout

T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
Andreas Eschbach

from the author
J. Sheridan LeFanu

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Paul Di Filippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
Karen Joy Fowler

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sir James George FRazer

Neil Gaiman

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
William Gibson

Chris Golden

Glen David Gold

William Golding

David Goodis

Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Steven Gould

Science Fiction Author Steven Gould (self-portrait, iCam)
Jacob Grimm

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

Emory University
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ursula K. Le Guin

H Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
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
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Nick Hornby

Robert Howard

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Eva Ibbotson

Shelley Jackson

Photo © Kipling Swehla
Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
K. W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Pamela Sheldon Johns

Andrea Wyner.
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

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

MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Brian Keene

Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Stephen King

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

Ellen Klages

John Klima

Mary Klima
Dean Koontz

Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Emeril Lagasse

(by Spc. Leah R. Burton)
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse signs his cookbooks and interacts with fans during a book signing at the Fort Lewis, Washington.
(www4.army.mil)
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Margo Lanagan

J. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Michael Largo

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C. S. Lewis

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
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"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
Jonathan Maberry

Sara Jo West
Ian R. MacLeod

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

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Thomas Mann

Richard Matheson

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Robert McCrum

Carson Mccullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Maureen F. McHugh

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
China Mieville

Arthur Miller

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John (edited Milton, with Notes and A Life Of Milton, by Vaughan, Robert, D. D.

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Richard K. Morgan

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Cory Doctorow, September 1, 2007
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Naomi Novik

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

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Stewart O'Nan

Emmuska Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Benjamin Parzybok

Jennifer Pelland

Photo taken by Andy Benson, 2007.
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Marisha Pessl

Henry Petroski

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsJohn Picacio

John Burlinson. Dec. 8, 2007
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Richard Powell

Courtesy of BookThink
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Tim Pratt.

Photo by Heather Shaw
Prokosch Frederic

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

Jamie Pullman
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Kit Reed

kitreed.net
Robert Reed

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
M. Rickert

K. Tempest Bradford
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Justina Robson

Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Henry Rollins

Photograph by Emma Farrer
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
J. K. Rowling

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Matt Ruff

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
Wayne Allen Sallee

R. A. Salvatore

Jean-Paul Sartre

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
John Scalzi

Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
David J. Schwartz

Photo by Heidi Ehalt
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Roebuck and Co. Incorporated Sears

Sears Merchandise Building Tower, Illinois, USA
John Delano
Ekaterina Sedia

Tait Chirenje
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George 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)
Jean Shepherd

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Will Shetterly

by Emma Bull
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Cordwainer Smith

Michael Marshall

Image copyright © Steve Double, 2006
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Stephen Sondheim

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

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Mickey Spillane

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Jerry Stahl

Domenic Stansberry

Flora Annie Steel

Published by W. Heinemann, 1903
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Brooke Stevens

brookestevens.com
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sean Stewart

Sting

Lionel Urman
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Straub

Charles Stross

Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Tricia Sullivan

triciasullivan.co.uk
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mark Teppo

Photo taken by the author's gracious and understanding spouse.
Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Thomas
Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
James Tiptree

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun Tzu

Andrew Vachss

© Alan R. Talman
Catherynne Valente

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Ann VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer

A. E. van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

John Varley

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Voltaire

Karl Edward Wagner

Copyright © Beth Gwinn
Howard Waldrop

Jo Walton

Ian Watson

www.ianwatson.info
Alan Weisman

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
David Wellington

Photo by the author.
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienScott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Donald E. Westlake

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
Richard Wilbur

Ysabeau S. Wilce

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Thornton Niven Wilder

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

Charles Williams

Liz Williams

(c) Kate Eshelby, 2007, courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Jack Williamson

Walter Jon Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Paul Witcover

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Photographer: John Wood
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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