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Aeschylus

Allan Ahlberg

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aristophanes

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

St Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Brendan Behan

Hilaire Belloc

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

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

Thomas Phillips
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Raymond Briggs

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)
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browing

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

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
Burckhardt. Jacob

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Sir Richard F Burton

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
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)
Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Paulo Coelho

Babette Cole

COLETTE

from Wikipedia
F C Copleston

David Crystal

Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
MaryJanice Davidson

copyright MJ Alonghi
Descartes

from Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Rosina Lippi

Nurmi Husa
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
Gerald Durrell

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
George Eliot

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

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Jerry Bauer
Alison Fell

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
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
J G Frazer

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Christopher Fry

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

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

(c) Jane Brown
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Goethe

Wikipédia France
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Ursula Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Seamus Heaney

Friedrich Heer

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)
Robert Herrick

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
David Hewson

Photo by Mark Bothwell
Douglas R Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ

Photographer unknown
Michel Houellebecq

Brian Jacques

Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyAlfred Jarry

findagrave.com
James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Molly Keane

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

Jack Kerouac

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Dick King-Smith

Rudyard Kipling

Erich Kastner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
Rosamond Lehman

John Burlinson
V I Lenin

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

C Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C S Lewis

Heather Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Christopher Marlowe

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

James Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Daphne du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Anne McCaffrey

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
John Stuart Mill

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

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

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Jill Murphy

Irene Nemirovsky

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Julian of Norwich

Edna O'Brien

George Orwell

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

Iain Pears

M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Petronius Arbiter

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Anna Politkovskaya

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Thomas Pynchon

Robert Rankin

Henri-Pierre Roche

3rd man in is Roché
Phyllis Rose

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Edward Rutherfurd

J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Alexei Sayle

www.chrismsaunders.com
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
LIONEL SHRIVER

Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Jemma Harvey

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
T.Raphael Simons

Permission received from the author. He had his associate email me the photo.
Stephen Skinner

Stephen Skinner
Alexander Mccall; Illustrated by Mcintosh Smith, Iain

Graham Clark, photographer
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
ZADIE SMITH

Sophocles

Diana Souhami

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Edmund Spenser

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

R L Stevenson

c. 1885
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
David Thomson

Lucy Gray
J. R. R. Tolkien

Lillian Too

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Various

Julio Verne

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

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelun 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

Oscar Wilde

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

Library of Congress
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Laura Zigman

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