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Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
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)
Chris 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)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Linda Berdoll

Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Peter V. Brett

Luigi Novi
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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Alton Brown

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kathy Cano-Murillo

Belinda Hankins Miller, July 28, 2007
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Laura Claridge

Meg Waite Clayton

photo by McCord Clayton
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Stephen Cosgrove

Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
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)
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
David Damrosch

Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Troy Denning

Troy Denning, Lucas Comics & Games, 2007.
Photo by user torre.elena / flickr.
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Alexandre Dumas

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

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

Southworth & Hawes
National Baseball Hall Of Fame

July 2007, photo by Ewen Roberts
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Fanny Fern

c1866, Library of Congress
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Judith Finlayson

Judith Finlayson
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressSandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Frances E.W. Harper

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

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

wikipedia
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Joanna Kavenna

Carolyn G. 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.
Nate Kenyon

Photo by Harrison Malec Brown
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Jack London

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

Deborah Madison

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Charles Maturin

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

Ann Marie Johnson
Arthur Miller

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

A. A. Milne

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

Georges Seguin
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Peter Morville

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stewart O'Nan

George Orwell

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

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Richard Peck

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Christopher Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Samuel Richardson

Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler

National Archives and Records Administration
Alexandra Robbins

Glen Rounds

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

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bertrand Russell

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

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Dan Shaughnessy

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Kathy Sierra

Kenneth Silverman

2003 Nancy Crampton
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Maya Slater

photo by Monica Garnsey
Betty Smith

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

1990s
Susan Sontag

Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri

Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
R. L. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

J. M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Maria Augusta Trapp

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Phillis Wheatley

Frontispiece engraved by Scipio Moorhead, 1773
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-5316)
Walt Whitman

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

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
William Carlos Williams

Ting-xing Ye

William Bell
Gabrielle Zevin

Aaron Eckhart
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