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Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Lloyd Alexander

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Katherine Applegate

Heli12
Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
Sandy Asher

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Alan Ayckbourn

copyright: Alan Ayckbourn
R. M Ballantyne

wikipedia
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Henri Barbusse

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J. Barrie

Sebastian Barry

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

W. Bernhardt

James Berry

This image of James Berry, hangman and executioner, is scanned from the author's work MY EXPERIENCES AS AN EXECUTIONER (1892).
Dyan Blacklock

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Malorie Blackman

R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Judy Blume

Robert Bolt

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

Ben Bova

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bertolt Brecht

Anne Bronte

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)
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Erskine Caldwell

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

Jerry Bauer
John Le Carre

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Cathy Cassidy

Anton Chekhov

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

wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Noël 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)
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Colin Dexter

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

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

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

J.P. Donleavy

F.M. Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Alexandre Dumas

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

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

Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Dick Francis

Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Brian Friel

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jean George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Adele Geras

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Golding

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert Harris

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Jack Higgins

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Mary Hoffman

© Jess Barber 2004
James Hogg

Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Monica Hughes

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
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Brian Jacques

Paul Jennings

Jerome K. Jerome

Paul Johnston

Novelist Paul Johnston
(Photo by Adam Harcourt)
James Joyce

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

Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
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.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Dick King-Smith

Stephen King

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

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Laird

Philip Larkin

Stephen R. Lawhead

Harper Lee

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C.Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C. S. Lewis

David Lindsay

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

no credit given
Patrick MacGill

Wikimedia Commons
Sir Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Keith Miles

Simon Whitfield
Lee Martin

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne Du Maurier

Karl May

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

Frank McCourt

Horace McCoy

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
James Meek

Arthur Miller

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

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Jean Baptiste Poquelin De Molière

Wikipédia France
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Walter Dean Myers

V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Patrick Ness

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Liam O'Flaherty

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

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Tamora Pierce

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Kjartan Poskitt

kjartan.co.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Celia Rees

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Chris & Stewart Riddell, Paul

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
J.K. Rowling

Laura Ruby

Photo by Stephen Metro
J.D. Salinger

Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
George 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)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
R L Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
various

Kurt Vonnegut

Jill Paton Walsh

Evelyn Waugh

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

Riccardo Cambiassi
H.G. Wells

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

Photo by Samantha Jones
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
William Wharton

Thornton Wilder

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

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

Library of Congress
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Benjamin Zephaniah

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Paul Zindel

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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