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Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aeschylus

Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Ann Bannon

Photo by Kel Munger
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Lauren Belfer

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
James Boswell

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
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
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Seán Burke

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Jim Butcher

Simon Callow

Truman Capote

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John le Carre

Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Sarah Caudwell

John Burlinson
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Susanna Clarke

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Rachel Coyne

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Ronald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Howard Dean

Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Joanne Dobson

Mark Doty

Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)

George Eliot

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Amitai Etzioni

Photo © Esther Dyson
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Dana Facaros

Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
William Faulkner

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

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Harold Frederic

See below.
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
John Gay

Jean Genet

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
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.
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Benny Green

Tom Beetz, 2008.
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ursula K. Le Guin

R.S. Gwynn

Don Usner
Charles Lindley Wood Halifax

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-35227)
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Joseph Hansen

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Eliza Haywood

Ernest Heminway

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Paul Hindemith

Robin Hobb

Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Barney Hoskyns

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Jerome K. Jerome

David Joachim

Kurt Wilson
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
Terry Jones

Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Stephen King

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

Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Anne Lamott

D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
C. S. Lewis

Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Sinclair Lewis

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

By Leslie Howle
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
Frank Loesser

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

Wikipedia
Niccolo Machiavelli

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Martial

From Wikipedia
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Armistead Maupin

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

Robert Mccrum

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Rand McNally

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
A. A. Milne

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

Margaret Mitchell

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Diana Norman

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Flannery O'Connor

Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueGeorge Orwell

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Petronius

Kevin P. Phillips

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
de Pisan Christine

from Wikipedia
Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

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

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Marquis De Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jonathan Santlofer

Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Arthur Meier Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Meryle Secrest

Marion Ettlinger
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
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
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Lady Murasaki

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Michelangelo Signorile

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 13, 2008, demonstration in New York City
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Edith Sitwell

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Sarah Smith

(c)Sherry Briggs
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Jose Carlos Somoza

Andrzej Barabasz
Stephen Sondheim

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

Edmund Spenser

Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

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

Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Theocritus

Image from Sixteen select idyls of Theocritus (1839) edited by D. B. Hickie
Mark Thompson

Susan Forrest (LT Mark Thompson #1)
06-02-09 Stonewall Anniversary History panel, City of West Hollywood.
Victoria Thompson

Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Jean Toomer

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

Ian MacIsaac, March 9th, 2007
Calvin Trillin

Lionel Trilling

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
United States.

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Various

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Evelyn Waugh

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

Sara Dunn
David Ames Wells

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

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

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 Niven Wilder

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
David Wishart

P.G. Wodehouse

Naomi Wolf

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
World Almanac Books

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

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
William Wycherley

Kevin Young

Library of Congress
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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