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Douglas Carlton Abrams

Susan Satcher
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Arthur Agatston

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)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
David Attenborough

Shojo
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Dave Barry

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
S. Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Robin Behn

University of Alabama
James Scott Bell

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.)
Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
John Boccaccio

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

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gillian Bradshaw

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
John Bunyan

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Robert Burns

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Sir Richard Burton

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

David M. Buss

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

George Washington Cable

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Orson Scott Card

Ron Carlson

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

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)
Lee Child

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha. Christie

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Sage Cohen

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganDavid Crystal

e.e. cummings

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

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Nelson Demille

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Denis Diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
E. L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

Joi Ito
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John Dryden, Trans.

Alexandre Dumas

READERS DIGEST

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

T. S. Eliot

Hallie Ephron

Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
David Ferry

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Edward Fitzgerald, Trans.

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sir James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Brian Friel

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

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Thomas Fuller

lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Norman German

photo by Shawn Martin
Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Gary Goldschneider

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jacob and Wilhelm 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.)
Jacob Grimm

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

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
William Sydney Porter

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

Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Kristi Holl

http://www.kristiholl.com/images/image002.jpg
Homer

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Langston Hughes

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

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher (editor) (Joseph Conrad; G. K. Chesterton; George Moore; Isherwood

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

Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksPeter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Bret Anthony Johnston

Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
Alvin M. Jr Josephy

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jr. Kaiser, Walter C.

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.)
M. M. Kaye

Molly Keane

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

N. M. Kelby

Courtesy of the author
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Stephen King

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

Karleen Koen

Joan Boote
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Madame De Lafayette

Anne Lamott

Langenscheidt Staff

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Deborah Leblanc

Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Lisa Lenard-Cook

Photo by Kyle Zimmerman
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Laura Lippman

Livy

from Wikipedia
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert Ludlum

Noah Lukeman

Ross Macdonald

Niccolo Machiavelli

Peter Macinnis

Peter Macinnis
Magnus trans/editor Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Evan Marshall

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET

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

Daphne du Maurier

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Colleen McCullough

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Joel Meyerowitz

James Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
John Milton

Alistair Moffat

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Kate Mosse

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Suze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Perri O'Shaughnessy

Ovid

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
James Patterson

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Alexander Pope, Trans

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
Francine Prose

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Sir

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

Peter Robinson

La Rochefoucauld

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

Stephan G. Kravitz
S. J. Rozan

Steven Runciman

Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Schama Simon

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Harold Schechter

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Justin Scott

Thomas McDonald for The Boston Globe
Manda Scott

Sir Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
Jeff Sharlet

Greg Martin
George Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henryk (Jeremiah Curtin Sienkiewicz, Translator)

Wikipedia Image
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
National Geographic Society (U.S.),

Alexandra Sokoloff

Author
Stephen - Edited By Spender

Mickey Spillane

Erica Spindler

Hoffman Miller Advertising
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Peter Sterns, general editor

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Geoff Stray

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Robert Tallant

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

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
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
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
A. W. Tozer

Photo courtesy of Lowell Tozer
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. B. 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)
Dalton Trumbo

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Chris Tusa

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Evangeline Walton

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
Bev Walton-Porter

Self-pic taken by author
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Jack Whyte

Richard Wilbur

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Tennessee Williams

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

Tom Ordelman, 1984
F. Paul Wilson

David Wishart

P. G. Wodehouse

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Monica Wood

monicawood.com
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Frank Yerby

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-115899
Jane Yolen

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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