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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Albee Edward

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Daisy Ashford

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-30073
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Dion Boucicault

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

Mark Condren
Malcolm Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

Russell Brand

Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.
Bertolt Brecht

Julia Briggs

Anne Bronte

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.
E B Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Edmund Burke

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

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Noel Byron

Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Truman Capote

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

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
A.P. Chekhov

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

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

Jonathan Coe


Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Maria Corelli

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler
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)
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Colin Dexter

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer

George Eliot

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joshua Ferris

Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
PENELOPE FITZGERALD

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Miles Franklin

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Esther Freud

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

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Brian Friel

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Sally Gardner

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Adele Geras

George Gissing

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

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
William Golding

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Grossmith

public domain image
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hill

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Christopher Hitchens

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Maria Hyland

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Franz Kafka

John Keats

Rudyard Kipling

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Philip Larkin

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Federico Garcia Lorca

Robert Lowell

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daphne Du Maurier

Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
John Stuart Mill

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

Margaret Mitchell

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Saint Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
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)
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

Melissa Ann Pinney
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Iain Pears

Penguin

Sidewalk Advertising, Fitzrovia, London. Photo by user Albarella / Flickr.
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
J.B. Priestley

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

Samuel Richardson

Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Marilynne Robinson

Phyllis Rose

Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Arundhati Roy

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali SMITH

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Arthur Smith

Judith Welch
Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

William Sutton

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Tennyson

William Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
E.P. Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

public domain

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Edward Trelawney

Rose Tremain


Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Virgil

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

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Evelyn Waugh

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

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Nathanael West

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

from Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Charlotte Mary Yonge

Image from: Charlotte Mary Yonge by Christabel Coleridge. London: MacMillan and Co., 1903.
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