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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Edward Albee

Sherman Alexie

Isabel Allende

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

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aristotle

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

John Burlinson
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Charlotte Bacon

Brad Choyt
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Peter S Beagle

Wikipedia
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Wendell Berry

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Robert Bolt

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

Paul Bowles

T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Andre Breton

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

John Horne Burns

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

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
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)
Orson Scott Card

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Willa Cather

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

photo by Philip Chaon
Upamanyu Chatterjee

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur C. Clarke

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

J. M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
I. Compton-Burnett

James Fenimore Cooper

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

© D.J. Weir
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)
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Kiran Desai

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
E. L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Clare Dudman

Credit: Sandra Johnson
(AP Watt)
Elaine Dundy

Mark Dunn

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
George Eliot

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Stanley J. Farlow

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Felix Feneon

Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), 1890
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
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

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Viktor E. Frankl

Alexandra Fuller

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Neil Gaiman

Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

Louise Gluck

Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
William Golding

Nadine Gordimer

Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Ursula K. Le Guin

Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Ernest Hemingway

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

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Michel Houellebecq

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Shelley Jackson

Photo © Kipling Swehla
Henry James

Wikipedia
Elfriede Jelinek

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carl Gustav Jung

Ernst Jünger

Franz Kafka

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Jack Kerouac

Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Lily Koppel

Photo by Lilithcat
Milan Kundera

George Lakoff

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Niccolo Machiavelli

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Anne McCaffrey

Colum Mccann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Carson McCullers

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Norman A. Meinkoth

Swarthmore College.
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Arthur Miller

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

Norman Johnson
Steven Millhauser

Cseslaw Milosz, Selector and Translator

MDCarchives
Anchee Min

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Soseki Natsume

Arthur Nersesian

David Shankbone, September 2007
Pablo Neruda

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Garth Nix

Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

Kenzaburo Oë

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Milorad Pavic

Marisha Pessl

Richard Pevear

Brigitte Lacombe
Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Salvador Plascencia

Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Andrei Platonov

©The Random House Group
Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

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

Samuel Richardson

Tom Robbins

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Karen Russell

Joanne Chan
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint Euxpery

J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Sir Walter Scott

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

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ntozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Nevil Shute

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

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Georges Simenon

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Betty Smith

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

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Christina Stead

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)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Hannah Tinti

Linda Carrion
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Lionel Trilling

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Michael J. Tyler

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
M.G. Vassanji

Denise Grant
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
David Foster Wallace

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.
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
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Tennessee Williams

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

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Mo Yan

Photo by Mao Danqing at Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, were it was cropped by user Raoul 654.
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Paul Zindel

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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