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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
César Aira

Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Alain- Fournier

Wikipédia France
Daniel Alarcon

Photo by Mathieu Bourgois
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlos Drummond De Andrade

Photo by user UNiesert / Wikimedia Commons
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh


Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Anne Applebaum

Jakob Arjouni

Fernando Arrabal

Stoisto
Antonin Artaud

Joaquim Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Miguel Asturias

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tash Aw

mathieu bourgois
Marcel Ayme

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Isaac Babel

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

Photo by Suzanne Nathan /
flickr
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Stanislaw Baranczak

Mariusz Kubik
Henri Barbusse

Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Pío Baroja

Sebastian Barry

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Emilia Pardo Bazan

Paul Beatty

www.dentontaylor.com
Brooklyn Lit Festival 2008

Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Juan Benet

J. L. Cabanyal (Claude at findagrave.com)
Georges Bernanos

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

Thomas Bernhard

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Marcel Beyer

Hans Peter Schaefer
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maurice Blanchot


Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Victor Bockris

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Wolfgang Borchert

Deutsch Post AG and Rosemarie Clausen / Wikimedia Commons

Jorge Luis Borges

Franz Borkenau

Tadeuz Borowski

Paul Bowles

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Bertolt Brecht

Andre Breton

Hermann Broch

Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Robert Burns

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Michel Butor

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Erskine Caldwell

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

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Bo Carpelan

Teemu Rajala
John le Carre

Emmanuel Carrere

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Elena Castedo

Elena Castedo
Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.

Camilo Jose Cela

ÁWá
Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Mehdi Charef

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Daniel Chavarría

Andree Chedid

Anton Chekhov

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

wikipedia
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Philippe Claudel

Jonathan Coe


J. M. Coetzee

Steve Coll

Center for American Progress
Karen Connelly

Courtesy of the author
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Hendrik Conscience

Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Robert Coover

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Malcolm (Editor) Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis


Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Guy DEBORD

Edgar Degas

Self-portrait, circa 1854-1855
Don DeLillo

Denis Diderot

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918

Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Dobyns

Ariel Dorfman

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website

Jean Echenoz


Umberto Eco

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

Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com

Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Martín Espada

Courtesy of Martin Espada.
Howard Fast


William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Joshua Ferris

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson

Dario Fo

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Brian Friel

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

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Alan Furst

Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Leighton Gage

Taken by Lesa Holstine, Velma Teague Library, 1/24/08

Benito Perez Galdos

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Jean Genet

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Andre Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Louise Gluck


Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Nadine Gordimer

Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth

Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray


Graham Greene

Henry Green

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Philippe Grimbert

Photo by user Luctor / Wikimedia Commons
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Batya Gur

Photo by user Casaresricardo / Wikimedia Commons
Lars Gustafsson

Suz
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rawi Hage

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Anne Hebert

Harry Palmer (1986)
Seamus Heaney

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)

Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Marek Hlasko

photographed by Robert Sadowski
Nick Hornby


Michel Houellebecq


Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Vicente Blasco Ibanez

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-29028
Arnaldur Indridason

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyRobinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
Elfriede Jelinek

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Thierry Jonquet


James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey


Elias Khoury

Suz
Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Yusef. Komunyakaa

Photo by Lilithcat
Jerzy Kosinski

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Selma Lagerlof

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
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein

Halldor Laxness

Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Carlo Levi


Philip Levine

Frances Levine
Primo Levi

C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
David Levering Lewis

Columbia University
Sinclair Lewis

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

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Arnost Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.
John Lydon


Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Osip Mandelshtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Edouard Manet

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Eugene McCabe

Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Adrian McKinty

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Adam Mickiewicz

Credit: Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128272)
Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Arthur Miller

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)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Farley Mowat

Paul Muldoon

Harry Mulisch

Herta Muller

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
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)
Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain

Pablo Neruda

Jo Nesbo

Stian Andersen
Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein

Marlene van Niekerk

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College

Flannery O'Connor

Tom'as O'Crohan


Kenzaburo Oe

Liam O'Flaherty

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

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Thomas Paine

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Papalazarou

photo G S Leonard
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia

John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Milorad Pavic

Iva Pekarkova

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Fernando Pessoa

Per Petterson

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

D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Luigi Pirandello

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
E. Annie Proulx

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

Eca De Queiros

Francois Rabelais

Patrick Rambaud

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Christoph Ransmayr

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
Derek Raymond

Lou Reed

Brave New Films, October 16, 2006
Matt Beynon Rees

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Yasmina Reza

Brigitte Enguerand
Rainer Maria Rilke


Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Santiago Roncagliolo

Manuel González Olaechea y Franco
Joseph Roth


Arundhati Roy

Nicholas Royle

Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Anatoli Naumovich Rybakov

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara

Arno Schmidt

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
Elif Shafak

Bahar
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Alan Sillitoe

Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.

Claude Simon

Josef Skvorecky

public domain
Kevin Smith

Credit: Joey O'Rourke, 2006, Red Bank, N.J.
Zadie Smith

Philippe Sollers

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Andrzej Stasiuk

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow

Wislawa Szymborska

Quentin Tarantino

Johan Theorin

Photo: Anneli Salo
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Dylan Thomas

Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
Olivier Todd

Françoise Viard
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Tomas Transtromer

Andrei Romanenko
Elsa Triolet

Portrait by Rodchenko
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Martha Updike

Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Luisa Valenzuela

Fernando Vallejo

Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Various


Paul Verhaeghen

Li-Hua Lan
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Enrique Vila-Matas

Mathieu Bourgois
Francois Villon

Vladimar Voinovich

Galina Zakhoder
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Andrei Voznesensky

MDCarchives
Peter Wahloo


David Foster Wallace

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James H. Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Peter Weissman

William Wharton

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton


Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Paweł Cieśla
Stephen Wright

Marion Ettlinger
W. B Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Abraham B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik

Juli Zeh

Photo by Mariusz Kubik

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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