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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sarah Armstrong

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Lauren Bacall

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

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Marjorie Faith Barnard

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Simone de Beauvoir

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

John Berendt

Eye on Books
A.Scott Berg

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Christopher A. Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
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)
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Ada Cambridge

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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Marcus Clarke

Wikimedia
J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Jim Crace

AMANDA CROSS

John Burlinson
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Robertson Davies

Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Anne Deveson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Alexandre Dumas

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

John Burlinson
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Anna Fienberg

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
F Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Jane Gardam

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
George Gissing

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

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Jane Gleeson-White

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gail Godwin

Nadine Gordimer

Kristin Gore

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marion Halligan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Hawthorne Nathaniel

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

K. Ishiguru

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

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
F.R. Leavis

Nam Le

Photo © 2007 Joanne Chan
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Anita Loos

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

University of Windsor
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
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 James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Andrew McGahan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Yehudi Menuhin

Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
A.A. Milne

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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)
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Barack Obama

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
A. B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Stef Penney

Elliot Perlman

D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Rosa Praed

Autographed portrait by Disderi, c1870-90 (Library of Congress)
Lily Prior

Courtesy of the author
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barbara Pym

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
I. A. Richards

Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Samuel Richardson

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Tom Robbins

Anita Roddick

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Arundhati Roy

Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
J.D. Salinger

Eva Sallis

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lionel Shriver

Nevil Shute

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

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Zadie Smith

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Laurence Sterne

Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
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)
J R R Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Flora Tristan

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
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Salley Vickers

Kurt Vonnegut

Jill Paton Walsh

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

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

(c) Alison Weir
Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams

Tim Winton

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tom Wolfe

Sue Woolfe

Sunder Madabushi
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Emily Hilda Young

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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