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Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Steve Almond

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kurt Andersen

Brigitte Lacombe
Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson
Lou Andreas-Salome

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Donald Antrim

Hannah Arendt

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jean M. Auel

Shalom Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Melissa Bank

Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Max Barry

(c) Lauren Thomas
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff: Selfportrait with palette, 1880
From Wikimedia
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Josh Bazell

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simone De Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Samuel Beckett

Martyn Bedford

Photo by Claire McNamee
Lauren Belfer

Jennifer Belle

Walter Benjamin

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Maurice Blanchot

Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

Eric Bogosian

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Paul Bowles

T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Arthur Bradford

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Stewart Brand

Andre Breton

Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Judith P. Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Carl Van Vechten (1947)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Orson Scott Card

Eric Carle

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Charlotte Carter

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Dan Chaon

photo by Philip Chaon
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
John Cheever

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Maxine Clair

Aaron Paden/University Relations, University of Kansas.
Chris Cleave

Charlie Hopkinson
Catherine Clement

Esby
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J. M. Coetzee

John Collier

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from 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)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
e. e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Salvador Dali

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

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Adam Davies

Amanda Davis

Kathryn Davis

Emma Dodge Hanson photgraphy.
There is no permission to reproduce.
Lydia Davis

Mike Davis

Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Guy Debord

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Tomie dePaola

Kiran Desai

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
E. L. Doctorow

Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
Ariel Dorfman

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir 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)
Alexandre Dumas pere

Sarah Dunant

Mark Dunn

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Fernanda Eberstadt

Umberto Eco

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

Julie Edwards

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

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Brian Eno

Bungopolis, June 26, 2006
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Max Ernst

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Frantz Fanon

Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Joshua Ferris

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

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
Gillian Flynn

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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

Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
David Gates

Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Jean Genet

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Robert Girardi

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Gluckel

Bertha Pappenheim as Glikl bas Judah Leib (Glückel von Hameln)
Nikolai Gogol

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

Shari Goldhagen

Photo by Paul Sarkis
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Noah Gordon

Sara Gran

Robert Urh
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Elizabeth Graver

Debi Milligan
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Peter Greenaway

Brian Greene

Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Jacob Grimm

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

Lucy Schaeffer
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Michael Gruber

Kevin Guilfoile

Bryan Bedell
Ursula K. Le Guin

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Sue Halpern

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Robert Harris

Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Robert A. Heinlein

Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Amy Hempel

George Herriman

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Ernst Theodor Hoffman

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

Nick Hornby

Dara Horn

Photo: Michael Priest
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

David Huddle

Photo by Chip Riegel
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
M. J. Hyland

Greg Iles

Photographed by Ben Hillyer
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Shelley Jackson

Photo © Kipling Swehla
A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Randall Jarrell

Ricky Jay

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
Adam Johnson

Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Neil Jordan

Photo by Franz Richter
James Joyce

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Miranda July

RJ Shaughnessy
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Juris Jurjevics

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Franz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Maira Kalman

Mary Karr

Joanna Kavenna

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Nic Kelman

girlsbook.com
Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Gail K. Evanari
Jerzy Kosinski

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Adam Langer

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Mikhail Lermontov

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Toby Litt

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Christopher Locke

taken by a friend.
Jack London

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

(c) Sara Lorimer
Beverly Lowry

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Paul Malmont

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stephen Marche

Herbert Marcuse

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Armistead Maupin

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

James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Anne Mccaffrey

Tom Mccarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Scott McCloud

Jill Mccorkle

Tom Rankin
Frank McCourt

Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Elizabeth McGregor

Jay Mcinerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Mameve Medwed

mamevemedwed.com
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Judith Merril

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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

Ellen Miller

Sherrie Saint John
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Kate Millett

Steven Millhauser

A. A. Milne

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Rick Moody

Ted Mooney

Nicholas Latimer
Richard K. Morgan

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Mosse

Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Nasdijj

rrllmm392
Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
John O'Hara

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Ruth L. Ozeki

Ann Packer

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
ZZ Packer

Marion Ettinger
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dorothy Parker

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Iain Pears

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Marisha Pessl

Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Dawn Powell

Julie Powell

unknown

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Francine Prose

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas Pynchon

Joe Quirk

Photo by Craig Merrill
David Rakoff

Author: Larry D. Moore
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Nina Revoyr

Carolyn Kellogg and Nina Revoyr (right)
at 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganAnne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tom Robbins

Andrea Di Robilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Roxana Robinson

Novelists Leora Skolkin-Smith and Roxana Robinson (right)
run into each other at the 2006 GalleyCat holiday party
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganSusan Fox Rogers

Alfred Guy
David Rohde

Columbia University
Avital Ronell

Photo by user lotu5 / Wikimedia Commons
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

S. J. Rozan

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jon Scieszka

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maurice Sendak

Danzy Senna

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtAlex Shakar

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
Kamila Shamsie

Ntozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
Aurelie Sheehan

Photo by Martha Lochert
Sidney Sheldon

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
David Shields

Tom Collicott
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Joan Silber

Joan Silber (center) at the post-ceremony
reception at 3rd annual Story Prize
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganShel Silverstein

Charles Simic

Library of Congress
Paullina Simons

Mel Cain
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

public domain
David R. Slavitt

David R. Slavitt, b. 1935, aka Henry Sutton, no image located yet
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Betty Smith

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

Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Scott Snyder

Scott Snyder (right, author of "Voodoo Hearts")
chats with Story Prize finalist George Saunders
at 3rd annual Story Prize
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Irini Spanidou

Joanne Chan
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Dana Spiotta

Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Rebecca Stott

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Darin Strauss

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Anthony Swofford

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Leora Tanenbaum

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Jean Toomer

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

JonathanTropper.com
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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