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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
James Agee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Dorothy Allison

Steve Almond

Julia Alvarez

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Shalom Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Jane Austen

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

denton@speakeasy.net
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker -


Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
John Barrow

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
David B.

Photo taken by Marcela Ewert
Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (7 September 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Michael J. Behe

Courtesy of Michael Behe.
Aphra Behn

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

Walter Benjamin

Louis De Bernieres

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

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Blanche Mccrary Boyd

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
M.E. Braddon

Anne Brontë

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
Anita. Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Geraldine Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Pearl S. Buck

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

Gaspar Tringale
Lily Burana

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anthony Burgess

Kenneth Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Eye on Books
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Antonia S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Emmanuel Carrere

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
John Cheever

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Susan Choi

Sigrid Estrada
Mary; With a new Introduction by Showalter Cholmondeley, Elaine

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke


J. M. Coetzee

Stuart Archer Cohen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
William Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Trevor Corson

Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Eleanor Dark

Charles Darwin

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

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Guy Delisle

Luigi Novi
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Elaine Dundy

Fuschia Dunlop

Tang Yuewu
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
George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Leslie Feinberg

Joshua Ferris

Fielding Helen

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Janet Fitch

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
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Viktor Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
James Not Available; Frey

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressWilliam Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Martha Gellhorn

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Hollis Gillespie

Nikki Giovanni

Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Austin Grossman

Christopher Peterson (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Mohammed Hanif


Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy

Ernest Hemingway

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.
Gilbert Hernandez

Comiquero.com
John Hersey

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

James Hogg

A. Hosain

Michel Houellebecq

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
M. J. Hyland

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
C. L. R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
James Joyce

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

Miranda July

RJ Shaughnessy
Mary Karr

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Margaret. Kennedy

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

Gail K. Evanari
Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Nikita Lalwani

credit: Vik Sharma
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Matthew Gregory 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)
Wyndham Lewis, editor

Marina Lewycka

Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Anita Loos

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

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Charles Maturin

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

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


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
Scott Mccloud

Frank Mccourt

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Dinaw Mengestu

Blair Feathers
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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)
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
John Stuart Mill

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

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Rutu Modan

Georges Seguin
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Harry Mulisch

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Irene Nemirovsky

Audrey Niffenegger

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'BRIEN

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College

Flannery O' Connor

John O'Hara

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Dorothy Parker

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

DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby,
U.S. Air Force, at the Grand Ole Opry on
April 23, 2005 during a visit by Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Marisha Pessl

Ann Petry

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

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Salvador Plascencia

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Katherine Anne Porter

Julie Powell

unknown
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ayn Rand

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

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Alexandra Robbins

Tom Robbins

Marilynne Robinson

Phyllis Rose

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Karen Russell

Joanne Chan
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
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)
J. D. Salinger

Elizabeth D. Samet

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Amy Sedaris

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Danzy Senna

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Lionel Shriver

Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Betty Smith

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

John Burlinson
Jeff Smith

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

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Daniel Handler

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Susan Sontag

Christina Stead

Wallace Stegner

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)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
David Storey

Jeremy Keith
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Gene Stratton Porter

Ball State University
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Leora Tanenbaum

Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
Hunter S. Thompson

Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
Hannah Tinti

Linda Carrion
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
K. John Toole

Rose Tremain

Calvin Trillin

Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Carl (Editor) Van Vechten

Self-portrait, April 3, 1934 (Carl Van Vechten Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-124551)
Gore Vidal

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Foster Wallace

Horace Walpole

Jess Walter

Dan Pelle
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
H.G. Wells

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

Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Antonia White; Elizabeth Bowen

Time Warner Books UK
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
John Edgar Wideman

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
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)
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

Tom Wolfe

Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

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

Library of Congress
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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