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Douglas Adams

Adamson Joy

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Boris Akunin

Alain Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
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 Anderson

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

copyright: Alan Ayckbourn
R. M. Ballantyne

wikipedia
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Ingrid Bergman

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bertolt Brecht

Jean Anthelme: Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
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
Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Jim Butcher

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Caleb CARR

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Graham Chapman

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

Anton Pavlovich 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)
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jean Cocteau

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia Cornwell

Peter Corris

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Noël Coward

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alister Crowley

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)
Clarence S. Darrow

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Delillo Don

Alan M. Dershowitz

G V Desani

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
E.L. Doctorow

J. P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
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)
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)
T.S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
SUSAN FALUDI

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding, 1707-1754

wikipedia
Carrie Fisher

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

Ian Fleming

Alan Fletcher

Dario Fo

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Thomas Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
PAUL GALLICO

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Nikolai Gogol

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

William Golding

Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Germane Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

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.)
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dashiel Hammett

Azarnick
Christopher Hampton

David Chadderton
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Shirley Hazzard

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)
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
CARL HIASSEN

2006 Tim Chapman
Oscar Hijuelos

Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Robin Hobb

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Charlie Huston

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Molly Ivins

Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksAlfred Jarry

findagrave.com
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)
C. G. Jung

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Molly KEANE

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Diana Kennedy

Ken Kesey

Norma Khouri

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA

Wikimedia Commons
Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D.H. LAWRENCE

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Harper. Lee

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Norman Lindsay

Taken by Harold Cazneaux, 1931
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Ross Macdonald

Compton MacKenzie

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

Deborah Madison

David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ngaio Marsh

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

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

Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
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

Carson Mccullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
James Meek

Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
A. A. Milne

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret 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)
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Lucy Maud Montgomery

wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Walter MOSLEY

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
willard motley

Vladamir Nabakov

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

Frederic Reglain
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flannery O'Conner

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)
P. J. O'rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

Marion Ettinger
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
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
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
J.B. Priestley

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

Courtesy of the author
Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Gordon Ramsay

Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kathy Reichs

Matthew Reilly

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Tom Robbins

Marilynne Robinson

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Michel Roux

Phil Guest, March 23, 2008
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

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)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Bruno Schultz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Walter Scott, Sir, 1771-1832

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
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
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Brigitte Lacombe
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Georges Simenon

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

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

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Stevie Smith - Edited By James MacGibbon

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

C P Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Charmaine Solomon

Rodney Weidland
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Johanna Spyri

John Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Christina Stead

Ralph Steadman

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Time Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J.R.R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Dr. P. L. Travers

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

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ethel Sybil Turner, 1872-1958

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Parker Tyler

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

Martha Updike
Various

Jules Verne

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Alice L. Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E.B. White

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

P. G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Naomi, Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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