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Paperback Pirate
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Charles Heber Clark

Credit: Frederick Gutekunst, ca. 1870s (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-134028)
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Lloyd Alexander

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Piers Anthony


Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Source: US President's Council on < br> Physical Fitness and Sports
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Melissa Bank

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Dave Barry

Bela Bartok

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Berendt John

Eye on Books
Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Judy Blume

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Edward de Bono

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Jan Brett

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Eric Carle

John LeCarre

Emily Carr

Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

from Wikipedia
Austin Clarke

Paulo Coelho

Eleanor Coerr

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Joy Cowley

Palmer Cox

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Walter Crane

Walter Crane. Detail of photo by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) From the album Portraits of Many Persons of Note, 1886. Wikimedia Commons.
Sharon Creech

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)

Robertson Davies

Don DeLillo

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest

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

In Kenya, 1918
E.L. Doctorow

Mary Mapes Dodge

Jennifer Donnelly

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
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)
R. W. Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jeffery Farnol

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Debra Frasier

Courtesy of Debra Frasier
Charles Frazier

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
William Golding

William Goldman

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

from Wikipedia
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Lucy Grealy

Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Denise Hamilton

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
George Frideric Handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Shirley Hazzard

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Robert Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
O. Henry

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Edward Hirsch

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Michael Hoeye

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Adine Sagalyn Opale
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Brian Jacques

Samuel Johnson

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Sophie Kinsella

W. P. Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Stephen Leacock

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

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Beverly Lewis

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.)
C. S. Lewis

Joseph C. Lincoln

Paul Thompson, Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jack London

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

Kate MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Irshad Manji

Photo: Raquel Evita Saraswati
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
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.)
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Frank McCourt

Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Stuart McLean

Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Arthur Miller

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
LM Montgomery

wikipedia
Susanna Moodie

Library and Archives Canada
Jillian Moreno

courtesy Jillian Moreno
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Julie; Morgenstern Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Farley Mowat

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)
Ogden Nash

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

Miriam Nelson

Irene Nemirovsky

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Iain Pears

Ridley Pearson

Richard Peck

Laurie Perry

copyright ©2007 pdxWoman (Oct 2007)
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
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 Quindlan

Ayn Rand

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

Edeet Ravel

Courtesy of the author
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Tom Robbins

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Gabrielle Roy

Bank of Canada
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
J. D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Maurice Sendak

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 ArtWilliam 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)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Ben Sherwood

Nevil Shute

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

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Alfred B. Smith

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Scott B. Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rebecca Stott

Gene Stratton-Porter

Ball State University
K¯oji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Mathieu Bourgois
M.G. Vassanji

Denise Grant
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish" (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Rick Warren

Rick Warren

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

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

IRVINE WELSH

www.chrismsaunders.com
Stewart Edward White

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
kate douglas wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Harold Bell. Wright

Ronald Wright

Nick Wiebe
Laurence Yep

Muhammad Yunus

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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