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Paperback Pirate
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.J. Ayer

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Neil Bartlett

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tony Benn

Anti-war demo, London, March 19, 2005 (photo credit: JK the Unwise, Wikipedia user)
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Betjeman

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Tony Blair

Paul Morse (2002), cropped.
Sidney Blumenthal

Photo by Larry D. Moore (2006) (Wikimedia Commons)
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Michael Bracewell

Malcolm Bradbury

Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Richard Branson

Photo created by NASA (cropped)
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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
Rupert Brooke

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

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer,
speaks at IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting, 2002
(credit: International Monetary Fund)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
William Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carr

Lewis Caroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Willa Cather

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Iris Chang

Colin Chapman

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.)
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
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)
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Matthew Collings

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Elizabeth Cowling

Elizabeth Cowling (on right)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Robertson Davies

Amanda Davis

Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Delacorta

Daniel Odier
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Colin Dexter

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
James Dodson

J.P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

stephaniedowrick.com
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Gerald Durrell

Fernanda Eberstadt

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
"Reader's Digest"

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
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
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Brian Eno

Bungopolis, June 26, 2006
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

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

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
Helen Fielding

Bobby Fischer

Carrie Fisher

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

Ken Follett

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
John Fowles

Dick Francis

Jonathan Franzen

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

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

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Tate Gallery

Photo by Francesco Gasparetti / Flickr.
The Saatchi Gallery Staff

Photo by Mark Hardie / Flickr.
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Bill Gates

Kahlil Gibran

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

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Tania Glyde

Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Mikhail Gorbachev

Pete Souza
Nadine Gordimer

Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Seamus Heaney

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zo Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
HIGGINS JACK

Oscar Hijuelos

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Hobsbawm

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Michel Houellebecq

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Will Hutton

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Samuel Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Henrik Ibsen

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

Stephen Inwood

Joe Inwood
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
C. Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJerome K. Jerome

Gail Jones

James Joyce

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

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Fergal Keane

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Madeleine Wickham

Rudyard Kipling

Katrina Kittle

Photo by Lauren Reed
Joe Klein

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
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T E Lawrence

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

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Marina Lewycka

Daniel Libeskind

Toby Litt

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Lisa Marklund

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Andrew Marr

Damien Everett from Southampton, UK - via Wikimedia Commons
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne Du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Kate Millett

John Stuart Mill

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

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Tim Moore

Jan Morris

John Mortimer

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin (Basketball Player) Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Geoff Nicholson

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

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

From Wikipedia
Robert O'Connor

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Pier Paulo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
Christopher Patten

Kaihsu Tai
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
David Peace

Charles Glover
Samuel Pepys

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

Photo © Jon Barandica
John Perkins

Nikolaus Pevsner

Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Scott Phillips

scottphillipsauthor.com
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Karl R. Popper

Laurens Van Der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
E Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Sir A. Quiller-Couch

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

Photo by Tim Duncan
John Rawls

Piers Paul Read

Tony Reeves

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Gary Rhodes

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Christopher Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley
Michael Ridpath

Peter Robinson

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Nicholas Royle

Peter Paul Rubens

Detail from "Self Portrait of the Painter and his Wife Isabella Brant under the Honeysuckle Arbor", c. 1609.
Damon Runyan

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
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)
Bertrand Russell

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

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Seneca

Gerald Seymour

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Byssche Shelley

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

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Nevil Shute

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

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Maj Sjowall

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Zadie Smith

George Smoot

Photo by Wikipedia User SCZenz
C.P. Snow

Sophocles

Diana Souhami

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Stephen Spender

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Thatcher

NASA
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Andrew Vachss

© Alan R. Talman
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Alfred Wainwright

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Izaak Walton

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

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
William Wharton

Edmund White

Oscar Wilde

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

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

J.D. Sloan
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W. B. Yeats

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

Eiichiro
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