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S.Y. Abramovitsh

from Wikipedia

Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Louisa May Alcott

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


Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
Sherwood Anderson

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

National Park Service
Anonymous

Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sholem Asch


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Sara Backer

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
George Beahm

Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

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

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton

Ray Bradbury

Susie Bright

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Thomas Bulfinch

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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)
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Jim Butcher


A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Abraham Cahan

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1937 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119095)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

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

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas

Angela Carter

John Burlinson

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Ellen Chesler

Susanna Clarke

Douglas Clegg

Shaye J. D. Cohen

courtesy of the author

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007

Ronald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)

Robertson Davies

John D'Emilio

Jim Oleson
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Frederick Douglass

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Alexandre Dumas

Mark Dunn

Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Havelock Ellis


Harlan Ellison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Frantz Fanon

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edna Ferber

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Eric Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate

Neil Gaiman

William Gibson

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikki Giovanni

William Goldman

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

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. LeGuin

Allan Gurganus

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Laurell K. Hamilton

Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.

Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Claudine Hellmuth

Aleksandar Hemon

John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Eric Hobsbawm

Laura Z. Hobson

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

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008.

Nick Hornby

Langston Hughes

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

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Shirley Jackson

Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
James Joyce

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

John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr


Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Eastman Kodak Company.

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Joe Kubert

Luigi Novi
Milan Kundera

Anne Lamott

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Ellen J. Langer

Robert Scoble
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Maurice Leblanc

Wikipédia France
Harper Lee

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

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Julius Lester

Jonathan Lethem

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

Sinclair Lewis

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

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
David Liss

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham, (William Somerset) (1874-1965)

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

Rand McNally

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Arthur Miller

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

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Vladimir Nabokov

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

© 2005 Linda Spillers
Leslea Newman

Photo by Mary Vasquez
Garth Nix

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Clifford Odets

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

Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Dorothy Parker

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

Columbia University
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Iain Pears

Marisha Pessl


Elizabeth Peters


Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Roy Porter

Chaim Potok


Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
Francine Prose


Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Carl Reiner

Photo by Alan Light, taken at the 41st Emmy Awards 9/17/89, from
FlickrErich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Tom Robbins

Edmond Rostand

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


J.K. Rowling


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Miguel de Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Joe Rubino
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOlive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Budd Schulberg

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

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

Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005

Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman

Joann Sfar

Credit: Jean-noël Lafargue, 2003

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
I. J. Singer

(Library of Congress Van Vechten Photographs LOT 12735, no. 1039)
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Elena Seibert
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
National Geographic

Susan Sontag

Sophocles


Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Wallace Stegner

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Gertrude Stein

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

c. 1885
Frank Stockton

See below.

Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Marie Stopes

Photo copyrighted 1921
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-118338)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
the editors of Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Gordon Van Gelder

Photo (c) 2004 by Al Bogdan (Wikipedia)
Various

Francois Voltaire


Kurt Vonnegut


Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Frank Warren

Eye on Books
Wendy Wasserstein

2005 Jill Krementz

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Simcha Weinstein

Luigi Novi
Eudora Welty

William Wharton

E. B. White

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

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

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

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
A. B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
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