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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Qanta A. Ahmed

Sherman Alexie

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paolo Bacigalupi

Brad Ackerman
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Simone De Beauvoir

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung

Ray Bradbury

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Charlotte Brontë

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

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
Anthony Burgess

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

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

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Kim Chernin

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Diablo Cody

Paulo Coelho

Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Chris Crutcher

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
Dave Cullen

Photo by MaryLynn Gillaspie.
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Fydor Dostoyevsky

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

Ralph Ellison


Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Gustave Flaubert

Richard Foster

Michel Foucault

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Pat Frank

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

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Rivka Galchen

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Elizabeth Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Fiona Giles

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Jane Gilman

Photo by Robert Stefanski
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Gary Goldschneider

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Edith Hamilton

Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Zoe 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)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hitchens

Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Zora Neale Hurston

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

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
B. K. S. Iyengar

Mutt Lunker
Henry James

Wikipedia
LeBron James

Jenna Jameson

jerone 2
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Terry Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Immanuel Kant

Nicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Joanna Kavenna

Pagan Kennedy

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Sophie Kinsella

Stephanie Klein

Jennifer Hanser
Caroline Knapp

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Jen Lancaster

Michael Largo

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Stieg Larsson

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Daniel J. Levitin

Aimee Liu

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Deborah Madison

Marilyn Manson

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Bobbie Ann Mason

Daphne Du Maurier

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Joe Meno

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Vladimir Nabokov

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

David Shankbone, August 2007
Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Nancy Pelosi

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California visits with soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq, as part of a Congressional Delegation during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Photo by TSGT JOHN L. HOUGHTON JR., USAF, 1/30/2004.
(defenseimagery.mil)
Lynn Peril

Photo by Jane Townley.
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan

Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Melissa P.

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
William Pollack

Peggy Post

Emily Price Post, 1873-1960, photo c1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-62205)

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Alexandra Robbins

J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Christine Schutt

David Kersey
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
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 ArtAnne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Elif Shafak

Bahar

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Nevil Shute

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

Joan Silber (center) at the post-ceremony
reception at 3rd annual Story Prize
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganSonya Sones

Photo by Ava Tramer
Sophocles

Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Tristan Taormino

Wonder14
Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Calvin Trillin

Dalton Trumbo

John Updike

Martha Updike
Kurt Vonnegut

Ayelet Waldman

ayeletwaldman.com
David Foster Wallace

Frank Warren

Eye on 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
Alan Weisman


Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

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

Tim Winton

Naomi Wolf

Monica Wood

monicawood.com

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Muhammad Yunus

John Zogby

U.S. State Dept.
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