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Tony Abbott

Courtesy of the author
Douglas Carlton Abrams

Susan Satcher
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Marta Acosta

Poppy Adams

Rob Sturges
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Pamela Aidan

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Hoermann/Evergreen Studios
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)
Naomi Alderman

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich at the age of 32
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alma Alexander

Flickr user annafdd
Lloyd Alexander

Tasha Alexander

Carrie Schechter
Sherman Alexie

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

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

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Dorothy Allison

Jay Allison

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Gene Ambaum

Photo provided by Gene Ambaum
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Stephen E. Ambrose

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Catherine Anderson

catherineanderson.com, no credit given
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
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

Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Keri Arthur

Courtesy of Keri Arthur.
Reed Arvin

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nancy Atherton

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ellis Avery

Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Julianna Baggott

Photograph by Carlos Alejandro
Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh website
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Anjali Banerjee

Photograph by Carol Ann Morris
L. A. Banks

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
T. A. Barron

Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson
Dave Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Charlene Baumbich

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Philip Beard

Photo by Craig J. Schmitt
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge MejÃa peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Andrey Biely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
E. F. Benson

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

Eye on Books
Alex Berenson

Sigrid Estrada
A. Scott Berg

Carol Berg

Ingrid Bergman

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Isabella Bird

Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Holley Bishop

Photograph by Trix Rosen
Bjornson Bjornstjerne

1923
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Erma Bombeck

Mark Bowden

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gillian Bradshaw

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Rhonda Britten

Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Terry Brooks

Larry Brown

Photographed by Bruce Newman
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Mikhail Afanas§evich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Robert Burns

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
Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Lewis Buzbee

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Chelsea Cain

Rachel Caine

Photo by Sharon Sams-Adams
James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody
John Le Carre

Josephine Carr

Courtesy of the author
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Betsy Carter

Ryan Dorsett
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Ana Castillo

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
P. C. Cast

P. C Cast
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Karen Chance

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Lee Child

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

U.S. Catholic Church

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, 2003. Photo by John Workman / Wikipedia.
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Cassandra Clare

Courtesy of Cassandra Clare.
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Diablo Cody

J. M. Coetzee

Rachel Cohn

Colette

from Wikipedia
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman

Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Museum Ludwig Cologne

South Entrance, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Photo by user Raymond / Wikimedia Commons.
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Anderson Cooper

Helene Cooper

Center for American Progress
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lori Copeland

The Picture People #303
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Alice Kimberly

Cleo Coyle
Robert Crais

Brent Crawford

Yasmin Crowther

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Clive Cussler

Sandra Dallas

Photo by Povy Kendal Atchison
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
James Dashner

Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold

MaryJanice Davidson

copyright MJ Alonghi
Amy E. Dean

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Rebecca Dean

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
E.M. Delafield

Joseph Delaney

Georges Seguin
Catherine Delors

Nelson DeMille

Sarah Dessen

sarahdessen.com
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Courtesy of the author
Elizabeth Dewberry

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Eric Jerome Dickey

Jeanne Kalogridis

Isaac Disraeli

Wikipedia

Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Mary Mapes Dodge

Ronlyn Domingue

Ronlyn Domingue (left) with River Jordan
at 2007 Pulpwood Girlfriends weekend, Marshall, Texas
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganSara Donati

Nurmi Husa
John Donne

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Phil Doran

Gustave Dore

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

Eye on Books

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sara Douglass

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Siobhan Dowd

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Sharon M. Draper

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
Theodore Dreiser

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

Sarah Dunant

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Mark Dunn

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Readers Digest

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

Carlos Eire

Courtesy of Carlos M. N. Eire
Barry Eisler

George Eliot

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

www.vampwriter.com
Ken Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Sam Enthoven

Self-portrait by the author!
Hallie Ephron

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Warren Fahy

David Farland

Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jessie Redmon Fauset

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

John Feinstein

Raymond Feist

Georges Seguin
Joshua Ferris

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Jane Johnson

Bill Fitzhugh

billfitzhugh.com
Ian Fleming

Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
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
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
L.L. Foster

Courtesy Lori Foster.
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Kate Furnivall

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
Sally Gardner

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Arthur Gelb

David Gemmell

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Philip Gibbs

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Emily Giffin

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Susan Jane Gilman

Photo by Robert Stefanski
Nikki Giovanni

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Christopher Golden

Francisco Goldman

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Jane Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Nadine Gordimer

Kristin Gore

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Aliza Green

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene


John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
W.E.B. Griffin

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Jim Grimsley

Emory University
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
Michael Gruber

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Richard Halliburton

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

Stephanie Ellis
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Jenny Han

Photograph by Eric A. Lang
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia

Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
E. Lynn Harris

Frank Harris

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Joel Chandler Harris

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

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Mette Harrison

Rosemary Harris

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/7/08, Scottsdale, AZ
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Mo Hayder

Seamus Heaney

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
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)
Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Katharine Hepburn

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.
Echo Heron

Author photo courtesy of echoheron.com.
James Herriot

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

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Brian Hicks

Photograph by Grace Beahm
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Jim C. Hines

Photo by Gabriel Edson
Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Chuck Hogan

Photographed by Joyce Ravid
Anthony Holden

Wendy Holden

Jennifer Holm

Library of Congress
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Nalo Hopkinson

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
Susan Hubbard

W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Tanya Huff

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley Jackson

A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJ.A. Jance

Liz Jensen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Ji-li Jiang

Catherine Jinks

Joseph Joffo

Dinkley
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Carrie Jones

Courtesy of author, Carrie Jones
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Stephen Graham Jones

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Robert Jordan

Melissa Joulwan

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Juris Jurjevics

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Garson Kanin

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


John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Alan Kelly

Elmer Kelton

Credit:Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Julie Kenner

www.juliekenner.com
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Karen Kingsbury

Dan Davis Photography
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Sophie Kinsella

Bharti Kirchner

Katrina Kittle

Photo by Lauren Reed
Amber Kizer

Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jo Knowles

Karleen Koen

Joan Boote
Dan Koeppel

J. A. Konrath

Dean Koontz

Gordon Korman

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

Eye on Books
Jayne Ann Krentz

Sharon Krum

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Jen Lancaster

Lillie Langtry

Credit: Sarony, 1887 (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-92567)
Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Stephanie Laurens

photo by Sigrid Estrada
Stephen R. Lawhead

Mike Lawson

Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Chang-Rae Lee

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

Harper Lee

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

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
David Lipsky

Sean McDowell
E. Lockhart

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Samuel Lover

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Robert Ludlum

Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Lisa Lutz

Sarah Lyall

Author Photograph by Lisa Wolfe
Whitney Lyles

Jonathan Maberry

Sara Jo West
Katie Macalister

Macinnes Helen

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

Photo by Sonya Sones
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Debbie Macomber

Twenty Wishes book signing, onyx95
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Rani Manicka

Thomas Mann

Beryl Markham

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

Melissa Marr

Ngaio Marsh

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martini

Groucho Marx

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

Guy De Maupassant

Armistead Maupin

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

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Anne Mccaffrey

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

Stephen McCauley

Wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Alan Peebles
Gregory McDonald

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Patrick McDonnell

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Cammie McGovern

Photo by Ellen Augarten
Patrick Mcgrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Emma McLaughlin

Rand McNally and Company

John Meaney

Used with permission
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
China Mieville

Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Linda Lael Miller

John Hall Photography
Giles Milton

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Mary Monroe

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRobert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Jan Morris


Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Peter Morville

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Natasha Mostert

Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Meg Mullins

Liza Mundy

Claudio Vazquez
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
C.E. Murphy

Walter Dean Myers

Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

David Shankbone, August 2007
Carla Neggers

Irene Nemirovsky

Paul Newman

TriviaKing
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Charles Eliot Norton

Copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-63651)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John O'Hara

William Tyler Olcott

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness Orczy Emmuska

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Judith O'Reilly

Photo by Alastair McCall
George Orwell

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

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alison Pace

Ann Packer

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Chuck Palahnuik

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
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
James Patterson

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Mary E. Pearson

Courtesy of the author
Ridley Pearson

Richard Peck

George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sharon Kay Penman

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Arturo Perez-Reverte

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