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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Jessica Adams

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop.,

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agee

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Fouad Ajami

Photograph by Anne Mandelbaum
Edward Albee

Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Hoermann/Evergreen Studios
Kathy Albrecht

Kat Albrecht, with Chase, A.J., and Rachel
Susan Alcorn

Andy Newcombe
Louisa May Alcott

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich at the age of 32
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lloyd Alexander

Sherman Alexie

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Chis Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Steve Almond

Cathryn Alpert

Photo by Marco Alpert
Julia Alvarez

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Stephen E. Ambrose

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
William R. Anderson

U.S. Navy
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Jake Arnott

www.chrismsaunders.com
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Stairway and rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Andrea Ashworth

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
David Auburn

Columbia University
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Steve Augarde

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Shalom Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mary Austin

Charles Fletcher Lummis
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Trezza Azzopardi

Jolene Babyak

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Robert Baer

Photo by Suzanne Nathan /
flickrJoan Baez

Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug. 1963
Credit: US Information Agency
Enid Bagnold

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

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-71767)
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
David P. Barash

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Marjorie Barnard

Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Kim Barnes

Scott M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie

Stephanie Barron

John Barth

Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Charles Baxter

Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Milt Bearden

Simone de Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Antony Beevor

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Lauren Belfer

Hillaire Belloc

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

Robert Benchley

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E. F Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rose Levy Beranbaum

John Berendt

Eye on Books
A. Scott Berg

Thomas Berger

Yogi Berra

Photo taken by Wikipedia user "Googie Man"
Wendell Berry

Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Hiram Bingham

Congressional photo
Isabella Lucy Bird

Sarah Bird

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1, 2008
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
Malorie Blackman

Lenore Blegvad

Photo by Louise Borden
Heinrich Boll

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

© Beth Kelly
Roy Blount Jr.

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Arlene Blum

Photograph by John Kokoska
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Robert Bolt

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

James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mark Bowden

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Rhys Bowen

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
Paul Bowles

Valerie Boyd

Photographed by Andrea Ferreira
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Kay Boyle

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Gayle Brandeis

Photo by Priscilla Iezzi
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Fernand Braudel

Richard Brautigan

James Henry Breasted

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

Jan Brett

Raymond Briggs

Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Tony Broadbent

Doug Menuez
Lora Brody

Bob Four
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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Charles Brockden Brown

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

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jeff Brown

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
Larry Brown

Photographed by Bruce Newman
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
Laurent de Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Ashley Bryan

Library of Congress
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Andrea J. Buchanan

Elizabeth Buchan

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Pearl S. Buck

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

Gaspar Tringale
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
John Bunyon

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Nathaniel Burt

Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Frederick Busch

Eye on Books
Samuel Butler

Betsy Byars

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Richard E. Byrd

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-32880)
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Tim Cahill

Chelsea Cain

James M. Cain

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

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

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William H. Calvin

Ada Cambridge

Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stephen J. Cannell

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Cantwell

Robert Cantwell, Music Writer ~ Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons) ~ Cropped
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Capra Fritjof

Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Andrew Carroll

Author Andrew Carroll (right) chats with Navy Petty Officer 2nd class David Garner. Photo by Rudi Williams
(defenselink.mil)
Jim Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Baldassare Castiglione, conte

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

John Burlinson
Bennett Cerf

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

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Ann Charters

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Mavis Cheek

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Cheever

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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

Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Harriet Scott Chessman

Micah Wolf
Mark Childress

Craig Childs

Photo by Bruce Hucko
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Mary Cholmondeley

Margaret Cho

Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
E.M. Cioran

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eleanor Clark

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

Esby
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
JEREMY CLARKSON

Wikipedia
Pearl Cleage

Eye on Books
David Clement-Davies

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Sierra Club

Photo by Jim Bradbury / Flickr.
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
Esmé Raji Codell

Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
Joanna Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Judy Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
C Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Anna Botsford Comstock

Confucius

Karen Connelly

Courtesy of the author
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Bob Considine

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

Monte Cook

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Coover

Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Jim Corbett

Zizou Corder

Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Stephen E. Cosgrove

Bob Costas

President George W. Bush speaks with Bob Costas of NBC Sports during an interview Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, while attending the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. White House photo by Eric Draper
(whitehouse.gov)
Colin Cotterill

self portrait by Colin Cotterill
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Robert Crais

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sharon Creech

George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
A. J. Cronin

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Alan Cumming

Credit: Tony Shek, 2005, Toronto, Ont.
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
Jamie Lee Curtis

41st Annual Emmy Awards, photo by Alan Light
Elizabeth B. Custer

Libby Custer with her husband, Gen. George A. Custer, taken during the Civil War
George Armstrong Custer

General George A Custer, from a wartime photograph.
Marquis De Custine

Wikipedia
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)
Sandra Dallas

Photo by Povy Kendal Atchison
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Richard Henry Dana

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Ned Hockman
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Peter David

Diane Mott Davidson

Adam Davies

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Amanda Davis

Annabel Davis-Goff

Photo by Sara Barrett
Kathryn Davis

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

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Dorothy Day

Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Howard Dean

Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004
John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Frank Deford

Bridgeport Public Library
E. M. Delafield

Don Delillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Tomie dePaola

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Sarah Dessen

sarahdessen.com
Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Colin Dexter

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Matthew Dicks

Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest editors

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Jeanne Kalogridis

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Disney

Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
E.L. (editor) Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Mary Mapes Dodge

Anthony Doerr

Ivan Doig

Rosina Lippi

Nurmi Husa
J. P. Donleavy

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Gerard Donovan

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Phil Doran

Ariel Dorfman

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Norman Douglas

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
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Frederick Douglass

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Theodore Dreiser

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

Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stephen J. Dubner

Wikimedia Commons
John Dufresne

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Alexandre Dumas

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Mark Dunn

Keith DuQuette

Gerald Durrell

Sarah Dyer

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Jean Echenoz

Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Carlos Eire

Courtesy of Carlos M. N. Eire
Edited By Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Albert Ellis

Wikipedia (courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute)
Alice Thomas Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Harlan Ellison

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Masaru Emoto

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
Eleanor Estes

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

Rupert Everett

Vicki Neave
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Jeffery Farnol

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

Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Ferlinghetti

Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Robert Ferrigno

David Ferry

Dan Fesperman

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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
Bill Fitzhugh

billfitzhugh.com
Gustave Flaubert

James Elroy. Flecker

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
John Fowles

John (1863-1919) Fox

John Fox (3)
ANATOLE. FRANCE

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

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Harold Frederic

See below.
Lynn Freed

Jonathan Freedman

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCarlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Alexandra Fuller

Margaret Fuller

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

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Galileo

Justus Sustermans
Kuki Gallmann

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
Erle Stanley Gardner

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

Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Alex Garland

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jonathan Gash

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
David Gates

Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mike Gayle

Photo by Liane Hentscher
Arthur Gelb

Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Jean Genet

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Adèle Geras

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Dagoberto Gilb

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Charles Eliot Norton

Copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-63651)
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Alfred Noyes

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Laura Joffe Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Geoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Naomi Shihab Nye

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Edna O'Brien

Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Sandra Day O'Connor

The Supreme Court Historical Society
Scott O'Dell

Clifford Odets

Courtesy of the
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Kenzaburo Oe

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Elisabeth Ogilvie

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John O'Hara

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Linda Olsson

Suz
Stewart O'Nan

Michael Ondaatje

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Eugene O'Neill

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Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
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Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
David M. Oshinsky

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Julie Otsuka

Daryl N Long
David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William A. Owens

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Navy Portrait)
Amos Oz

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Katherine Hall Page

Thomas Paine

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Orhan Pamuk

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George Papashvily

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Sara Paretsky

Dorothy Parker

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Robert B. Parker

Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Mungo Park

Suzan-Lori Parks

Columbia University
Todd Parr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Elliot Paul

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Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Octavio Paz

Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Ridley Pearson

T. R. Pearson

Photography by T.R. Pearson
Richard Peck

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Samuel Pepys

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Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Charles Perrault

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Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Sara Perry

photo by Mark Wexler
Marisha Pessl

Elizabeth Peters

Edith Pargeter

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Margot Peters

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Kevin Phillips

Piaget Jean

Felice Picano

Jodi Picoult

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Jan Pienkowski

Tamora Pierce

DBC Pierre

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John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Gloria Jean Pinkney

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

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Burkard Polster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Laurens Van Der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Dawn Powell

J. W. Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
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Julie Powell

unknown
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Oxford Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Peter Preston

Leontyne Price

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 19, 1953 "Porgy and Bess" (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-94217)
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Francine Prose

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

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

Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Anna Quindlen

Joe Quirk

Photo by Craig Merrill
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Kris Radish

Photo by Deone Jahnke
Gilda Radner

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Howell Raines

David Rakoff

Author: Larry D. Moore
Ayn Rand

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Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Piers Paul Read

Christopher Reich

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Ruth Reichl

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Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
Paisley Rekdal

Marion Ettlinger
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mary Renault

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
H. A. Rey

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Quentin James Reynolds

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Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Ben Rice

Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
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Samuel Richardson

RICHTER CONRAD

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Matt Ridley

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Alain Robbe-Grillet

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ÖNB/WienJason Roberts

Kenneth Roberts

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Andrea Di Robilant

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Marilynne Robinson

Peter Robinson

Vimala Rodgers

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Phyllis Rose

Ann B. Ross

Ann B. Ross
Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Edmond Rostand

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Arundhati Roy

Julian Rubinstein

Salman Rushdie

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Mary Doria Russell

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Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
CervantesSaavedra Miguel

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Robert Sabuda

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Sonia Sanchez

Photo by Kel Munger.
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)
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Margaret Sartor

John Burlinson. Nov. 3, 2007
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

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

Columbia University
Schim Schimmel

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Paul Schneider

nina bramhall
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer