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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Abigail Adams

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

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aeschylus

John Ajvide Lindqvist

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)
Pamela Allardice

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Stephen E. Ambrose

Jonathan Ames

Photographed by Travis Roozée
Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

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

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Wayne Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
John Barth

Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia

Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Matthew Biberman

by Bob Hower/Quadrant Photorgraphy

Dave Boling

Grady Booch

Michael Cote
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bertolt Brecht

David Brin

By R. Feist
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Daniel James Brown

Photo by Sharon V. Brown
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
William Jennings Bryan

Credit: Underwood & Underwood
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

Robert Clark
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

Julia Cameron

Photo 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)
Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sir Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Tom Clancy

Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Susanna Clarke

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Flickr user infrogmation
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Guy Consolmagno

Guy Consolmagno with the Vatican Meteorite collection, Castel Gandalfo, 2002. Photo by Kevin Nickerson.
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Microsoft Press

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Jeremiah Curtin

Curtin in December 1905
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)
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Peter David

Avram Davidson

Lydia Davis

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Martin R. Delany

Alan M. Dershowitz

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Amy at SIBA
Photo by Jim Veatch
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
GORDON R. DICKSON

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Reader's Digest

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

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Mary Mapes Dodge

Ronlyn Domingue

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

Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
John Dryden

Allen Dulles

Alexandre Dumas

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
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
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

Karen Essex

photo by Lisa Rutledge
Euripides

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

Jan Ainali
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Edna Ferber

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

Deutsche Post der DDR
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
R. F. (Ed) Foster

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Charles Frazier

Robert Frost

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

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
John Gay

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
William Gibson

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
William Golding

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Brian Greene

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Illustrated By Leonard

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.)
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

Allan Gurganus

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
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)
Hermann Hesse

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

2006 Tim Chapman

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Adolf Hitler

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Agnes Humbert

drawing of Agnès Humbert by Wikipedia user P0mbal
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
King James I.

"History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
John Jakes

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksStephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Robert Jordan

L. E. Modesitt Jr.

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Franz Kafka

Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Elia Kazan

James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
John Keats

Agnes Newton Keith

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

Philip Kerr

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Jr. King, Dr. Martin Luther

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas (Translator) Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Jerome Lawrence

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Courtesy of the author
Samuel M. Key

By Leslie Howle
Laura Lippman

Norah Lofts

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Ludlum

Noah Lukeman

Charles Mackay

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Mailer Norman

Carl Van Vechten
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paule Marshall

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton

J.M. Mcdermott

photograph by some guy in Borders next to me.
Ian MacDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Maureen F. McHugh

Emma Mclaughlin

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Milton

Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Robert 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)
John Morley

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

David Shankbone, August 2007
Pablo Neruda

Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Queen Noor

Photo by Steve Jurvetson (Flickr/Cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganBarack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

Elisabeth Ogilvie

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

kirstenlovesputi
Jack Olsen

www.jackolsen.com
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael B. Oren

George Orwell

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Marisha Pessl

Nathaniel Philbrick

Tom Piazza

John Burlinson, 8/24/08
Jean Plaidy

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

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

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Jerry Pournelle

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Heather Pringle

E. Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

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

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Mike Resnick

David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Sheri Reynolds

sherireynolds.com
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Chris Rose

Flickr user infrogmation
Phyllis Rose

J.K. Rowling

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)
Edward Rutherfurd

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)
Carl Sagan

Andrzej Sapkowski

Photo taken by Szymon Sokół
at the Polcon 2003 science fiction
and fantasy convention in Elbląg
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
John Saul

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
John Scalzi

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Lawrence Schimel

(c) 2006 Ismael Attrache
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Ken Scholes

Catriona Sparks
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Molly Elliot Seawell

Molly Elliot Seawell (1860-1916) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
William 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)
Rob Sheffield

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Marnie Henricksson
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sting

Lionel Urman
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
GENE STRATTON-PORTER

Ball State University
Whitley Strieber

A.C. Swinburne

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

Library of Congress
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alfred Tennyson, Lord

Johan Theorin

Photo: Anneli Salo
Hunter S. Thompson

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ephraim Tutt

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

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Ann VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer

Various

Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Ayelet Waldman

ayeletwaldman.com
Alice Walker

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

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Eudora Welty

Walt Whitman

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

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

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Alec Murray,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
F. Paul Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
HERMAN WOUK

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

Photo by Charles Lucke
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Richard Zacks

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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