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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Robert Adams

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agee

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Louisa May Alcott

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

Naomi Alderman

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Clare Allan

Maggie Hannan
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Al Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Suad Amiry

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kurt Andersen

Brigitte Lacombe
Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Sherwood Anderson

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

António Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Anne Applebaum

Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Jonty Wilde
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Timothy. Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Andrea Ashworth

Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Machado De Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W H Auden

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Trezza Azzopardi

Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Enid Bagnold

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

denton@speakeasy.net
R. M. Ballantyne

wikipedia
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Jesse Ball

Honore Balzac

Wikipédia France
Melissa Bank

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
JOHN BANVILLE

Jerry Bauer
David P. Barash

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Sebastian Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Nicholas A. Basbanes

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Charles Baxter

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Anthony Beevor

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Hilaire Belloc

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

Quentin Bell

Michael Bender

David Benioff

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
E. F. Benson

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

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Folke Bernadotte

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ~ National Archives and Records Administration
Thomas Bernhard

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Wendell Berry

Basilius Besler

J. Leypolt, 1613
John Betjeman

Thomas Bewick

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

Courtesy of www.lifeinlegacy.com
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Tim Birkhead

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

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

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

Derek Shapton
David Bodanis

Roy Bolton

Edward de Bono

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alan Bott

Image from Eastern nights--and flights: a record of oriental adventure (1919) by Alan Bott
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Marie Brenner

John Burlinson
Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Raymond Briggs

Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Hermann Broch

Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Charlotte Brontë

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
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Thomas Browne

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Margarete Buber-Neumann

John Burlinson
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson. Illustrated by Dodie Masterman. Burnett

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Sir Richard Burton

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

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

Eye on Books
Catherine Bush

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Robert Byrne

James M. Cain

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

Monica Curtin
Italo Calvino; Translation From The Italian Martin McLaughlin

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

John D. Caputo

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.)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Emily Carr

Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela. Carter

John Burlinson
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Willa Cather

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

John Burlinson
Benvenuto Cellini

Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Michel du Cille
Monique Charlesworth

Alex Lifschutz
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)
John Cheever

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

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
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Craig Childs

Photo by Bruce Hucko
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Denise Chong

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Winston S. Churchill

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

Ruben Guzman
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Austin Clarke

Eleanor Clark

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

Joan Clark

Ned Pratt
Pearl Cleage

Eye on Books
Chris Cleave

Charlie Hopkinson
Jean Cocteau

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

Paulo Coelho


J. M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Michael Collins

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Cook

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

Center for American Progress
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
John Cornwell

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
A. J. Cronin

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

Photo by Zoe Crowley
David Crystal

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)
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Marcia Davenport

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

Deborah Feingold
Norman Davies

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

Lauren B. Davis

Photo by Helen Tansey

Richard Dawkins

Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Andrew Delbanco

Joyce Ravid
Don DeLillo

Guy Delisle

Luigi Novi
Lester Del Rey

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

G. V. Desani

Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Joan Didion

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

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak (Karen Blixen) Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
E.L. Doctorow

Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
Heimito Von Doderer

Norman Doidge

Ivan Doig

J.P. Donleavy

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
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
John W. Dower

Columbia University
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Drinkwater

Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Edmund Dulac.

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Elaine Dundy

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
NELL DUNN

Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

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

Gwynne Dyer

Bob Dylan

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)
Hon. Emily Eden

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

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

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Aaron J. Elkins

Eye on Books
Alice Thomas Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Lucy Ellmann

Caroline Forbes
Marcellus Emants

Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Marina Endicott

Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
M.C. Escher

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Niall Ferguson

Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Joshua Ferris

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Patricia Finney

Cameracraft
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists

Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Dario Fo

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

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

Photo © Robert Yager
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
Michel Foucault

Friedrich De La Motte Fouque

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Pat Frank

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Patrick French

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Alexandra Fuller

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Peter Gadol

Photo by Art Gray
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Rivka Galchen

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Kuki Gallmann

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jane Gardam

Alex Garland

Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Mrs. Gaskell

William John Thomson
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Martha Gellhorn

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
andre gide

1893
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Elizabeth Gilbert

George Gissing

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

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Nikolai Gogol

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

From Wikimedia Commons
E H Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Robert Goolrick

Leigh Ledare
Nadine Gordimer

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Eli Gottlieb

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alastair Gray

John Gray

A.C. Grayling

Catherine the Great

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

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Joshua M. Greene

Henry Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

The Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
George Grossmith

public domain image
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Ursula K. Le Guin

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Guy

Author's website
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Rawi Hage

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Jennifer Haigh

photo: Asia Kepka
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Jane. Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Mohammed Hanif

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Jane harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Robert Harris

Peter Hart

Max Hastings

John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Steven W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Shirley Hazzard

Anne Hebert

Harry Palmer (1986)
Seamus Heaney

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Sarah Helm

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
James Herriot

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hill

Rosemary Hill

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James hilton

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

Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Hobsbawm

Ernst Theodor Hoffman

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Anthony Holden

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
HORACE

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Maureen Howard

Pawel Huelle

A. HUFFINGTON

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Barry Humphries

WTCA
Nancy Huston

Adine Sagalyn Opale
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Jack Ian

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Shirley Jackson

A. J. Jacobs

Jane JACOBS

Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Storm Jameson

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

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyLisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Karl Jaspers

RICHARD JEFFERIES

Wikipedia
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Liz Jensen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jerome K. Jerome

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Steven Johnson

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

Jerry Bauer
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Gail Jones

Terry Jones

Tim Jones

Photo: Sonali Mukherji
James Joyce

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

RJ Shaughnessy
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

James Kakalios

Wikipedia user Appraiser
Michio Kaku

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Arthur Rimbaud

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