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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Manuel Alegre

pt.wikipedia.org
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Hans Christian Andersen

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

Michael P. Sauers
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Image by Carlos Botelho / Wikimedia Commons
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
anonimo

Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Santa Teresa de Jesús

Peter Paul Rubens
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Photo by user Shiny Things / Flickr.
Pat Barker

Neil Bartlett

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Antony Beevor

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
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)
A. Scott Berg

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Blake

Terry Ballard, October 4, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Boethius

Raúl Brandão

Wikimedia Commons
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Bertolt Brecht

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Louise Brooks

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

Robert Cowen
Pearl S Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
William S Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton(editor)

Wikipedia (public domain)
Lord Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Luis Vaz de Camoes

Wikimedia Commons
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ivan Cankar

Engraving on the 10000-tolar banknote
Truman Capote

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

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Rosalía de Castro

Statue of Rosalía de Castro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Photo by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez / Wikipedia.
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Paul Celan

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Amy Chua

Larry D. Moore
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Jim Colucci

Photo by Erica Berger
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Noel Coward

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
St John of the Cross

David Crystal

Géza Csáth

Bust of Geza Csath, Subotica, Serbia. Photo by user Piroska / Hungarian Wikipedia.
e.e. cummings

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

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Erich von Däniken

by Michal Maňas
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipédia France
Russell T. Davies

Tony Hassall
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
E.M. Delafield

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Diderot

Marlene Dietrich

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

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

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

Marianne Faithfull

Just_guy, 2007
Sheridan Le Fanu

Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Niall Ferguson

Carrie Fisher

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Ford Madox Ford

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard A. Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Esther Freud

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

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Gilberto Freyre

Eduardo Adonias Aguiar Eadonias
Antonio Gala

Miguel A. Monjas
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Ian Gibson

Miguel A. Monjas
Lillian Gish

1921 photograph
George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-32655)
Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gógol

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

E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Maxim Gorki

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

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

George Grossmith

public domain image
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Christopher Hampton

David Chadderton
Thich Nhat Hanh

Peter Hart

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Katharine Hepburn

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Henrik Ibsen

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

Jack Kerouac

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
David Leddick

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
Primo Levi

Steven Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Daniel Levy

Ralph Alswang
Penelope Lively

Jack London

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

Howard Ph. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Titus Lucretius Carus

Dame. Rose MacAulay

John Burlinson
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.)
Nicolo Machiavelli

Hugh MacLennan

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

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel García Márquez

Ngaio Marsh

Guy de Maupassant

Armistead Maupin

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

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Cecília Meireles

official portrait
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Gladys Mitchell

Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

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

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Jan Morris

Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
John Clifford Mortimer

Natsume Soseki

Irène Némirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Audrey Niffenegger

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

Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
Dorothy Parker

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

Photograph by Andrea Passarella
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Fernando Pessoa

Petronius Arbiter

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
J. B. Priestley

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

Dorling Kindersley Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Barbara Pym

Eca De Queiros

Thomas De Quincey

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Jeremy Rifkin

Rainer M. Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Soqual Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Mercè Rodoreda

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Edited by Meredith Mckinney Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Ed Sikov

Photo by David Shankbone, August 2007
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Georges Simenon

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

University of Hull
Edith Sitwell, Dame

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Thomas E. Sniegoski

Official author photograph - Tom Sniegoski and his dog, Mulder
Sophocles

Diana Souhami

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Andrew Sullivan

Trey Ratcliff
James Swallow

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

Time Life

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Leão Tolstoi

public domain
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Scott Turow

Peter Ustinov

vários

Júlio Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Eduard Vilde

Kurt Vonnegut

Paul Watkins

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Max Weber

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)
Tennessee Williams

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

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

James Woodforde

abbottthomas
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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