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Mario. Acevedo

Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Lara Adrian

(c) Lara Adrian
Qanta Ahmed

Louisa May Alcott

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lloyd Alexander

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Dorothy Allison

Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Ilona Andrews

Lori Balfe
Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Kimberlee Auerbach

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Jarrold Baedeker

Dave Barry

George W. Beahm

A. Scott Berg

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Shirley Temple

Judy Blume

Erma Bombeck

Joan Borysenko

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
James Cameron

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Orson Scott Card

Drew Carey

Mike Carr

Randy Stewart, 2007
Lewis Carroll

P. C. Cast

P. C Cast
Willa Cather

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bennett Cerf

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christine

Juan Cole

Photo by Bert Schlauch, via wikimedia
Colette

from Wikipedia
Francis Ford Coppola

Source: Preşedintele României website (photo taken Sept. 21, 2005 at meeting with President of Romania)
Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Kevin Costner

Photo credit: SSgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr. (USAF), July 21, 2003
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Palmer Cox

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy,
1988 Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
MaryJanice Davidson

copyright MJ Alonghi
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Walt Disney Company

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
John Eldredge

http://www.ransomedheart.com/images/rh_skin/johnEldredge.jpg
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Timothy. Ferriss

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Carrie Fisher

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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)
Mary Hallock Foote

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. S. Forester

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Lori Foster

Courtesy Lori Foster.
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Charles Dana Gibson

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rachel Gibson

Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)

Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
William Goldman

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michelle Goodman

Credit Gregory Beckelhymer
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Jo Graham

Robert Walters
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Doris Grumbach

Photograph by Robert Giard & Copyright@Estate of Robert Giard.
Edith Hamilton

Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Chip. Heath

Chip and Dan Heath (Photo by Nathan Borror, Flickr)
Margaret Heffernan

James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Eric Hill

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Robin Hobb

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Angela Elwell Hunt

Photo by Ken Rada
Tara Hunt

Photo by Dave Winer
Stephen Inwood

Joe Inwood
John Jakes

Eloisa James

Amanda Stevenson Lupke
Cheryl St. John

Lifetouch
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

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

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John Kador

jkador.com
Franz Kafka

M. M. Kaye

Steven Kellogg

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Louis Kronenberger


Anne Lamott

Jill Marie Landis

Sara Wall Photography
Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Lora Leigh

C.S. LEWIS

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Linda Lowery

Linda in her San Miguel de Allende garden
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Owen Earl Lytton Meredith

Katie Macalister

Dandi

Maurer Photographic Studio
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Jean Marzollo

Frank McCourt

Mameve Medwed

mamevemedwed.com
Bruce Manning Metzger

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.)
Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
Linda Lael Miller

John Hall Photography
A.A. Milne

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Claude Monet

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Lloyd Moss

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Molly Moynahan

mollymoynahan.com
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganSuze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Charles Panati

Penguin Uk

Sidewalk Advertising, Fitzrovia, London. Photo by user Albarella / Flickr.
Marcus Pfister

Mary Pipher

Philippa Carr

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
T.A. Pratt

Photo by Heather Shaw
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Vance Randolph

Vance Randolph (cropped) from photo held at Library of Congress.
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Stan Rice

Joyce Ravid
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Ginger Rogers

J. K. Rowling

Fred Saberhagen

R. A. Salvatore

Mari Sandoz

Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Jon Scieszka

Sir Walter Scott

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

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of Art
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Shel Silverstein

Deborah Smith

Hank Smith
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Kerrelyn Sparks

Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Amy Stewart

K.C. Kratt
Jovial Bob Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
J. Michael Straczynski

At the 2007 New York Comic-Con.
Joni Eareckson Tada

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Maria Augusta Trapp

P. L. Travers

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

from Wikipedia
Natalie Tyler

Natalie Tyler
Tracey Ullman

Photo by Alan Light, 1990 (Flickr)
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Voltaire

Alice Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
H. G. Wells

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

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

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

Library of Congress
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Edward Willett

Lauren Willig

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
P. G. Wodehouse

Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Jane Yolen

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