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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Aeschylus

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley (Edited By Zachary Leader) Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
London. Royal Academy of Arts.

Drawing by Simon Fieldhouse
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Andrea Ashworth

Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

JANE AUSTEN

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

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

Wikipédia France
Pat Barker

JULIAN BARNES

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
William Beatty

Arthur William Devis (1806)
BEDE

Antony Beevor

Brendan Behan

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Betjeman

Ambrose (1842-1914?) Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dickie Bird

Photographer: Gareth J Dykes (2006)
Giovanni Boccacio

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

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
James Boswell

Great Britain

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
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Sir Edward G.E. Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
Edmund Burke

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

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

Julius Caesar

public domain
JAMES CAMERON

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
ANGELA CARTER

John Burlinson
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Robert (translated by) Chateaubriand; Baldick

Wikipedia
Geoffrey. Translated By Nevill Coghill. Illustrated By Edna Whyte. Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) (1874-1936) Chesterton

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

wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Cobbett

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Benjamin Constant

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

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

JENNIFER CRUSIE

Photo by Jennifer Maler
David Crystal

Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Darwin

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Deborah Cavendish Devonshire, Duchess of

My photo.
COLIN DEXTER

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest Association (Great Britain)

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
John Donne

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Drinkwater

Alexandre Dumas

Gerald DURRELL

George Eliot

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
John Evelyn

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

Jerry Bauer
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John. Fowles

Dick Francis

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Andre Gide

1893
GOETHE

Wikipédia France
Glen David Gold

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jonathon Green

n/a
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Sir Edward Grey

Jane Grigson

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. RIDER HAGGARD

Wikipedia
William Hague

Photo by openDemocracy / Flickr, edited by LT uploader.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert Harris

Max Hastings

Denis Healey

Seamus Heaney

A.P. Herbert

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

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E.J. Hobsbawm

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.E. Housman

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henry JAMES

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksMolly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

Cathy Kelly

Thomas A Kempis

Peter Kerr

Courtesy of the author
Dean. King

rudyard kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Milan Kundera

Philip Larkin

D. H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C.S. Lewis

Niccolò Machiavelli

Nelson Mandela

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Andrew Marr

Damien Everett from Southampton, UK - via Wikimedia Commons
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
J.S. MILL

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

Nancy Mitford

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

petermoore.net
Tim Moore

Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jan. Morris

JOHN MORTIMER

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
British Museum

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
Edna O'Brien

Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
John dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Stef Penney

Samuel Pepys

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

HAROLD PINTER

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Laurens Van Der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
ANTHONY POWELL

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
OXFORD

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
J.B. Priestley

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

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
N.A.M. Rodger

Susan Rodger
Lord (Benjamin Disraeli) Rosebery

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean-Jacques; J.M. Cohen trans & intro Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Cervantes

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
DOROTHY L.SAYERS

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon SCHAMA

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
Michael Shea

F. R. R. Mallory
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henryk Sienkiewicz trans Jeremiah Curtin

Wikipedia Image
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
ZADIE SMITH

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic

Stephen Spender

Mickey Spillane

John Steinbeck

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.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Lord Tennyson

W.M. THACKERAY

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J R R TOLKIEN

graf Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
CLAIRE TOMALIN

Michael Frayn
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rose Tremain

Lionel Trilling

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Hugh Walpole

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienREBECCA WEST

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

Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

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

Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-30741)
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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