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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aeschylus

Conrad Aiken

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Kingsley Amis

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

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

National Park Service
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

Nick Arnold

Photo from Nick Arnold
National Gallery of Art (U. S.)

Sunset, West Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Photo by user Brian Finifter / Flickr.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
David Auburn

Columbia University
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
KARL BAEDEKER

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

J.M. Barrie

Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Lucius Morris Beebe

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

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Candice Bergen

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (Cropped/Flickr)
Leonard Bernstein

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

Sarah Bird

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1, 2008
Giovanni (Translated By Richard Aldington) Boccaccio

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

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Robert Bolt

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

James Boswell

Paul Bowles

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Richard Brautigan

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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Thomas Bulfinch

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

From Wikipedia
Billie Burke

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

George; Lord Byron Gordon

Herb Caen

Columbia University
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)
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Ilka Chase

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

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

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Jonathan Coe

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Eric Denker

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dinesen Isak

In Kenya, 1918
Jennifer Donnelly

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Phil Doran

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Sarah Dunant

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Will Durant

Margaret Edson

Columbia University
Marc Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Karen Essex

photo by Lisa Rutledge
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Eugene Field

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

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

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Jonathan Franzen

James Frey

Lisa Fugard

Photo by John Scranton
Hamlin Garland

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

ΛΦΠ
Jean Genet

William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Giotto

Credit: Frieda (Wikipedia), 2004, Firenze, Italy
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Nadine Gordimer

Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Edith Hamilton

T Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Heggen Thomas

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

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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

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)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Barney Hoskyns

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E . Houseman

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Kathryn Hulme

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
Robinson Jeffers

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

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

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
John Keats

Claire Keegan

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Jean Kerr

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

Ross King

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
Gene Kranz

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Jack; Mortimer Lait, Lee

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Anne Lamott

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Gypsy Rose Lee

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Jennifer L. Leo

Courtesy of the author
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Queen Liliuokalani

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

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Joshua Logan

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Hendrik Van Loon

Anita Loos

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

Courtesy of Jodrell Bank, University of Manchester.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Niccolo Machiavelli

Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Ed. Maugham. W. Somerset

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
James Ingram Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Arthur Miller

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

Nancy Crampton
John Milton

Anchee Min

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Thomas More, Sir, Saint

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Mike Mullane

Wikimedia Commons (Photo created by NASA)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Clifford Odets

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

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

Daryl N Long
Malika Oufkir

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy. (Maugham Parker, W. Somerset).

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

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Samuel Pepys

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

Photo © Jon Barandica
Henry Petroski

Kevin Phillips

Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plutarch

William Pogue

Photo created by NASA
Alexander Pope

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

ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

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

Photo by Deone Jahnke
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mary Renault

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodger (at piano) with Lorenz Hart, 1936, World Telegram photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-122089)
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Laurie E. Rozakis

Stephan G. Kravitz
Juan Rulfo

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
John Patrick Shanley

George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Vincent Sheean

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Cornelia O. Skinner

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

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

Sarah Smith

(c)Sherry Briggs
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Stephen Spender

Edmund Spenser

Hilary Spurling

Clare Kendall
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Ralph Steadman

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

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

Jay Tamboli
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Hunter S. Thompson

James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy (

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

sophie tucker

1917 sheet music
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laozi.

Louis Untermeyer

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

Luis Urrea
Peter Ustinov

Mark Van Doren

John Burlinson
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
Barbara Walters

Photo by Christopher Peterson.
Evelyn Waugh

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

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

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler, courtesy Princeton University Weekly Bulletin.
E.B. WHITE

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

Elena Seibert
George Emlyn Williams

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

Photo by Liam Burke
Tennessee Williams

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

Yvor Winters

Courtesy Kenneth Fields
Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Alexander Woolcott

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

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

Elinor Wylie, 1885-1928
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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