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Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Alexander

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Kingsley Amis

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

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Dave Barry

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
Mark Bowden

Ray Bradbury

Stewart Brand

David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Ken Bruen

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
James M. Cain

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

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
G. K. Chesterton

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

Amy Chua

Larry D. Moore
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Charles Colson

Dan Davis Photography
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Umberto Eco

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
John Feinstein

Robert Ferrigno

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 Foster

Jonathan Franzen

Alex Garland

William Gibson

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Seth Godin

Jonah Goldberg

William Golding

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Michael Gruber

Ursula K. Le Guin

David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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.
Hugh Hewitt

lukeford.net
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Tony Hillerman

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
James Patrick Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Nick Hornby

Michel Houellebecq

Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Arnaldur Indridason

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Jane Jacobs

Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Russell Kirk

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Lem Stanislaw

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Donna Leon

C. S. Lewis

Laura Lippman

Roger Love

Photo by Hay House, Inc.
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Ross MacDonald

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
Christopher McDougall

John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Denise Mina

Vladˆimir Vladimirovich 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
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Ridley Pearson

George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Tom Robbins

Marilynne Robinson

Peter Robinson

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J.D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
John Sandford

Georges Simenon

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

Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Mark Steyn

Photo by Tania Gail / Flickr.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Jim Taylor

Evan Osherow, November 2, 1999
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Paul Theroux

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
John Updike

Martha Updike
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut

Ayelet Waldman

ayeletwaldman.com
David Foster Wallace

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joseph Wambaugh

Rick Warren

Rick Warren
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Donald E. Westlake

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Janwillem van de Wetering

Tom Wolfe

Stuart Woods

Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
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