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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Joy Adamson

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

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy

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)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Helen Ashton

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

©Rowena
Gertrude Atherton

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

Nick Bantock
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Cicely Mary Barker

Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Phyllis Eleanor Bentley

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

World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1947 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5867)
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Shirley Temple Black

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Marjorie Bowen

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

photo by Nicky Brink
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Raymond Briggs

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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)

Pearl Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Illustrated by Tasha Tudor

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Leo Buscaglia

MDCarchives
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord Byron

Hall Caine

Credit: C.S. Harris, 1895 (Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5957)
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Emily Carr

Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
Lewis Carroll

Howard Carter

Harry Chapin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 1978 (Wikimedia Commons)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Harriet Scott Chessman

Micah Wolf
G. K. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Marika Cobbold

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
John Connolly

Eye on Books
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Marie Corelli

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Noel Coward

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

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

Catherine Eldridge
Alison Croggon

Courtesy of Alison Croggon
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)
Marion Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
James Dashner

Peter David

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Percy Dearmer

http://copies.anglicansonline.org/churchtimes/990903/feat.htm
E. M Delafield

Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Colin Dexter

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Readers Digest

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

Walt Disney

Tony DiTerlizzi

Mary Mapes Dodge

Stephen Donaldson

John Donne

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

Eye on Books
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble (Ed.)

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John Drinkwater

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alexandre Dumas pere

Gerald Durrell

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke and wife: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-17998)
Umberto Eco

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

Courtesy of Hope Edelman
George Eliot

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

Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Sheridan Le Fanu

Jeffery Farnol

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

Jerry Bauer
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Ken Follett

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

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

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
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana. Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Benedict Freedman

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

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

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

J.K. Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Irene Gammel

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Kahlil Gibran

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

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
John Gray

Graham Greene

W.E.B. Griffin

Wilhelm Grimm

State22
Michael Gruber

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Doris Grumbach

Photograph by Robert Giard & Copyright@Estate of Robert Giard.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sandra Gulland

Richard Gulland
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Erin Hart

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Lillian Hellman

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

© Pan Macmillan
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Eric Hill

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
Montague Rhodes James

www.stephengray.net

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJerome K. Jerome

Terry Jones

M.M. Kaye

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.
Eileen Kernaghan

Diane Jarvis Jones
Ken Kesey

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Harper Lee

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

from Wikipedia

C.S. Lewis

James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Jean Little

Sam Llewellyn

Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Thomas Babington Macaulay

George Macdonald

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Robert Macneil

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Catherine Marshall

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Ngaio Marsh

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub

John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
C. M. Mayo

Teresa Castracane
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Nellie McClung

Cyril Jessup (Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada, ca. 1905-1922)
Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Ami McKay

Ian McKay
Patricia McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Stuart McLean

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Keith Miller

photo by Dina Salah
A.A. Milne

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

Rohinton Mistry

Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

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

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Susanna Moodie

Library and Archives Canada
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
John Clifford Mortimer

Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Farley Mowat

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Mary Novik

Photograph by Nicholas Seiflow
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganMichael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Grey Owl

Grey Owl (Wa-sha-quon-asin, Archibald Belaney), 1888-1938
Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Feb. 27, 1936, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada /
PA-164228)
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
C. Northcote Parkinson

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Iain Pears

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Anne Perry


Elizabeth Peters

Nathaniel Philbrick

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
J.B. Priestley

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

Jamie Pullman

Barbara Pym

Anna Quindlen

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 K, Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Alice Hegan Rice

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Edward V. Rickenbacker

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss

J.K. Rowling

Bertrand Russell

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

Courtesy of the author
Cervantes

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Brandon Sanderson


Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Robert Falcon Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"
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
Brian. Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Maurice Sendak

Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
Sir Ernest Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Hershel Shanks

George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Society (U. S.)

Johanna Spyri

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rebecca Stott

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Ball State University
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kate Summerscale


Lord Alfred Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd

J.R.R. Tolkien

Anthony Trollope

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lorraine Turner

Lorraine Turner
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Louis Untermeyer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Photo by Don Vantrease
Queen Victoria et al.

Queen Victoria wearing an emblem
of the Garter around her arm.
Detail of a portrait by Franz Winterhalter, 1842.
(Wikipedia)
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Edward Wagenknecht (editor)

1964 photograph by Boston University Photo Services.
Horace Walpole

Jill Paton Walsh

Jean Webster

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
E.B. White

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

Elena Seibert
Kate Douglas Wiggin (editor)

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wilde

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


P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Philip Wylie

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118224
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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