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Joel Achenbach

Photographed by Mark Thiessen
Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
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)
Stephen E. Ambrose

James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKen Anderson

http://christianheadlines.com/films/images/ka.jpg
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
ISAAC ASIMOV

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
E. Digby Baltzell

James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Edward L. Beach

U.S. Navy
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
James Beattie

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

Mark Berent with his F-4D DONKINS WALLBANGER at Ubon RTAFB. Picture by Maj. John Ford.
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Otto Bettmann

World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1947 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5867)
John Birmingham

Photo: CraigPRichmond
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Donald Bodey

Publicity photo
Richard Nelson Bolles

Larry Bond

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Ori Brafman

Josyn Herce
H. W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
John Bright

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Stephen Brown

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.)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Stephen Budiansky

Anthony Burgess

Richard E. Byrd

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-32880)
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Paul Carr

Photo by: Richard Moross
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Anton Chekov

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Roxanne St. Claire

Photograph by Stanley Studios
Tom Clancy

Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Eliot A. Cohen

Eliot A. Cohen, Counselor of the Department of State, Office of the Conselor, U.S. Department of State
Shaye J.D. Cohen

courtesy of the author
Allan Cole

Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Catherine Coulter

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Chris Cox

U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmerican National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
David Crystal

Clive Cussler

Diane Mott Davidson

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Randy Davila

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
U.S. Dept of Defense

defenselink.mil
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Nelson DeMille

T. M. Devine

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Dobbs

Stephen R. Donaldson

Michael Drosnin

Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Allen W. Dulles

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Lon Milo DuQuette

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Wikipedia (courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute)
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Ellison

Jean-Yves Empereur

Credit: Néfermaât (Wikipedia user), 2006
Maurits Cornelis Escher

Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Rev. Charles G. Finney

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.)
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Frances FitzGerald

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C. S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

William F. Friedman

Credit: National Security Agency
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
John R. Galvin

Photo by RUSSELL F. ROEDERER, 1991 (Wikimedia Commons)
David Gemmell

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Thomas Gilovich

Nicola Kountoupes
Cornell University Photography
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Norman Golb

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Golding

Noah Gordon

John Gould

Photo is of the 19th-century British ornithologist, not of the modern Maine writer.
Graham Greene

W. E. B. Griffin

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class James R. Evans) (Released) (defenseimagery.mil)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Allan Gurganus

Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
David Hagberg

David Halberstam

Richard Halliburton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Christopher Hibbert

Jack Higgins

Tony Hillerman

Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)

Christopher Hodapp

Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Madeline Hunter

James W. Huston

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
David Ignatius

Library of Congress
Andy Ihnatko

Nonie from Melbourne, Australia (http://www.flickr.com/people/16971123@N05)
Simon Jenkins

Mitch Joel

Hachette Book Group
Robert Jordan

C.G. Jung

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Guy Kawasaki

Image via Wikipedia, (c) Dave Sifry
M. M. Kaye

Andrew Keen

Joi Ito
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Caroline Kennedy

Pete Souza
Raymond Khoury

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Richard Knaak

Courtesy of Richard A. Knaak
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
Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Tim F. LaHaye

Edwin T. Layton

U.S. Navy, courtesy of Wikipedia Commons; http://www.navy.mil/midway/layton.html
AndrE, Leroi-Gourhan

José-Manuel Benito Álvarez
John Lescroart

William Mosgrove
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Jean Lorrah

no credit given
Erich Ludendorff

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Robert Ludlum

Eric Van Lustbader

Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Gayle Lynds

George MacDonald

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.)
Helen MacInnes

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

c1904, Library of Congress
Moses Maimonides

Mao Tse Tung

from Wikipedia
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steve Martini

James McConnachie

Alice Hunt
Robert McCrum

Patricia A. Mckillip

Adrianna Dane
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

John Hall Photography
Robert Morey

Photographed by Heather Terry
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
David Morrell

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Michael Murphy

James L. Nelson

James Nelson website, picture enhanced by vintage_books. Permission received to copy, enhance and upload photo during phone conversation November 17, 2008.
Jakob Nielsen

http://www.useit.com/jakob/photos/
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Tim O'Reilly

Joi Ito
George Orwell

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
James Patterson

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Joseph Persico

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Nathaniel Philbrick

Kim Philby

CCCP
(Wikipedia)
Kevin P. Phillips

Albert Pike

Brigadier-General Albert Pike, C.S.A., Commander of the Indian Forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge, etching from a photograph.
Daniel Pipes

lukeford.net
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
Heather Pringle

Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

James Randi

Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2007
Piers Paul Read

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mike Resnick

Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
John J. Robinson

http://www.msana.com/jrobinson.asp
J. K. Rowling

Margaret Rudkin

Library of Congress,
Prints & Photographs Division,
NYWT &S Collection [NXP1105112]
Fred Saberhagen

Carl Sagan

Pierre Salinger

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
David Meerman Scott

Annemarie Selinko

Michael Shermer

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Mitch Silver

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
N.V. Smith

Edgar Snow

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

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Richard H. Solomon

DoD photo by Cherie Cullen
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Viktor Suvorov

Matt Taibbi

Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J.R.R. Tolkien

Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
Nick Trout

Copyright Stanley Edwards.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
United States

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
John Varley

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Kurt Vonnegut

Arthur Edward Waite

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

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Evangeline Walton

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
George Washington

Steven Weinberg

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Janwillem van de Wetering

Jack Whyte

Kate Wilhelm

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edmund Wilson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
F. Paul Wilson

Bob Woodward

Herman Wouk

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

Photo by Don Maitz
Herbert O. Yardley

USG official portrait, NSA
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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