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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Scott Adams

Lloyd Alexander

Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

Miguel Angel Asturias

Nancy Atherton

David Attenborough

Shojo
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Mariano, Azuela

wikipedia
Jacinto Benavente

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Cat Bordhi

J. L. Borges

William G. Bowen

President Emeritus, Princeton University (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gregory A. Boyd

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.)
Fernand Braudel

Charlotte BronteÌ

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Thomas Browne

Robert Browning

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

University of Pennsylvania
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Stephen Budiansky

Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
James Burke

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Nancy Bush

William Byrd

from Wikipedia
Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Eva Cantarella

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2249125548/in/set-72157603706880065/
Lewis Carroll

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Iris Chang

G. K. Chesterton

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

Patsy Clairmont

Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
John Creasey

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Jorge Cruise

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Crystal

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
U. S. War Dept

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Jared M. Diamond

P.C. Doherty

Norman Doidge

Charles Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
T. S. Eliot

Aaron Elkins

Eye on Books
Bernt Engelmann

Bernt Engelmann (right). Photo by Gabriele Senft. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-305)
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Sara M. Evans

Linda Fairstein

Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Sandra Felton

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.)
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Professor Orlando Figes

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Vince Flynn

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
R. F. Foster

Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Dick Francis

John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Mark Gatiss

eye4images
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Jacqueline Gikow

Jacqueline Gikow
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Joseph Goebbels

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
N.V. Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Peter J. Gomes

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Caroline Graham

Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Thomas Gray

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

Photo by walnut whippet
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Sanjay Gupta

Library of Congress
Franklin Habit

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Robin Hansen

Jack W. Hayford

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.)
Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Christopher. Hibbert

Nâzım Hikmet

Tony Hillerman

Edward Hirsch

E. J. Hobsbawm

Anthony Holden

Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Molly Ivins

J. A. Jance

Michael Jecks

Maureen Jennings

maureenjennings.com
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
David Cay Johnston

c. 2007, Molly Leonard
Terry Jones

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Jan Karon

Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Thomas a Kempis

Ian Kershaw

Eastman Kodak Co

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
George Lakoff

Ellen Langer

Robert Scoble
William Leonard Langer

Harvard Square Library
Elsebeth Lavold

Primo Levi

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Max Lucado

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Brennan Manning

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.)
Margaret Maron

Peter Marshall

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.)
Ngaio Marsh

Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Ian MacDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
A. A. Milne

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

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Lucy Moore

Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Marc Morris

Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
Harry Mulisch

Marcia Muller

Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Miriam E. Nelson

Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Geoff Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Barack Obama

Dean Ornish

Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert Pape

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Sara Paretsky

Robert B. Parker

Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Jaroslav Pelikan

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Roy Porter

Gerald Posner

Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Kathy Reichs

Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Cokie Roberts

Peter Robinson

J.K. Rowling

Steven Runciman

Edward Rutherfurd

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Paul Schneider

nina bramhall
Tom Segev

De Segur Philippe

Tardieu, Ambroise (1788-1841)
Beppe Severgnini

Davide Schenetti (Wikimedia Commons)
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Georges Simenon

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

photo by Lisanne and Bryce Thomas
Maj Sjöwall

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter. Photo credit: Denise Applewhite, 2004 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Megan Smolenyak

Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Honoring Our Ancestors® Website:
http://www.honoringourancestors.com
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Society (U. S.)

Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Lawrence Sterne

Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Lee Strobel

Kate Summerscale

Ronald Grigor Suny

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Leonard Susskind

Wikipedia
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Frederick Taylor

Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Systems HQ, San Jose, California. Photo by user Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Thomas Aquinas

Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Aimee Thurlo

Albuquerque, The Magazine
J. R. R. Tolkien

Peter Tremayne

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Laurence H. Tribe

Photo by Lilithcat
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Kurt Tucholsky

Craig Unger

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Various

Dan Waddell

Maggie Hannan
Jim Wallis

Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Juan Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
P.G. Wodehouse

Nancy Woloch

James Woodforde

abbottthomas
Linda Woods

Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
W.B. Yeats

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