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Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Boris Akunin

Louisa May Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Tasha Alexander

Carrie Schechter
Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
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)
Jorge Amado

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

Wikipédia France
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Louis Armstrong

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127236)
Antonin Artaud

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Michael Baden

Michael Baden and Linda Kenney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Lester Bangs

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Cicely Mary Barker

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Ann Fiery

Photo by Brook McCormick
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Daniel Carter Beard

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

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Simone De Beauvoir

Edward Bellamy

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

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

Jeff Benedict
Walter Benjamin

Ambrose Bierce

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Bob Black

Holly Black

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Victor Bockris

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Eric Bogosian

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
Richard N. Bolles

Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
John Gregory Bourke

John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896); American Anthropologist. (1896) (Wikimedia Commons)
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
Mark Bowden

Jane Auer Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Bill Bradley

Stan Brakhage

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Andre Breton

Jan Brett

Susie Bright

J. M. (John Michael) Broadbent

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Chester Brown

Photograph by Joel Friesen
Dale Brown

Laurent de Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Abigail Van buren

James Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard F. (translator) Burton

Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

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

Anonymous
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Eric Carle

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Jim Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Graham Caveney

Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Cerf Bennett

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Wilt Chamberlain

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115428)
Jerome Charyn

Giorgio de Chirico

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Nov. 5.
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Mary Jane Clark

Jean Cocteau

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

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J. M. Coetzee

Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
Joanna Cole

Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Ace Collins

C. COLLODI (CARLO LORENZINI)

Photographer Unknown
Barry Commoner

Liz Baylen
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper

Robert Coover

Julian Cope

Royal Baking Powder Education Department

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-57405)
William H. Cosby Jr.

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Jim Crace

Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Hal Crowther

Marion Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Edward S. Curtis

Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Salvador Dali

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

Photograph © Harry Borden
Avram Davidson

Mike Davis

Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Andrew Delbanco

Joyce Ravid
Don DeLillo

Tomie dePaola

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
David Dickson

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
RH Disney

Tony Diterlizzi

Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Ivan Stang

The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.
John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Dr. John

Photo by
wpopp. Dr. John in concert, Jazz in Vienne, France, July 14, 2006
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Sergei Eisenstein

Charles W. (edited by) Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Ian Gittler
Havelock Ellis

Harlan Ellison

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dan Fante

Anneli Salo
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Alison Fell

Millicent Fenwick

National Records & Archives Administration
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Timothy Ferriss

Eugene Field

Paul Di Filippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Gustave Flaubert

Matthew Van Fleet

Brian Stanton
Ian Fleming

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Michel Foucault

O.S. Fowler

Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs (LC-DIG-cwpbh-01649)
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Paul Gaugin

from Wikipedia
Jean Genet

William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Robert Girardi

Nikolai Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
David Goodis

Nadine Gordimer

Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Taras Grescoe

Martha Grimes

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Girl Scouts of America

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Ernst Haeckel

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

John Burlinson
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
David Halberstam

Jarrett Hallcox

Richard Halliburton

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

Photo courtesy of Kelly Milner Halls.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
N. Katherine Hayles

Dave Pape
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Amy Hempel

Jack Herer

photo by Malcolm MacKinnon
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
E.D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
David Hockney

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Ben Hogan

Photo by Dick DeMarsico: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-115559)
Katharine Holabird

Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Stewart Home

Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nick Hornby

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
E. Howard Hunt

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
Edward Hyams

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

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Max Jacob

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 21, 1934 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52178)
Harold Jaffe

Provided by author
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksRandall Jarrell

Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
David Cay Johnston

c. 2007, Molly Leonard
Leroi Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Maira Kalman

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Walt Kelly

Courtesy of Michael Barrier
Jack Kerouac

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Dick King-Smith

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Jeff Kinney

Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Kodak

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
MaryAnn F. Kohl

MaryAnn F. Kohl, Bright Ring Publishing, "Bright Ideas for Learning", www.brightring.com
Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
Stephanie Laurens

photo by Sigrid Estrada
comte de Lautréamont

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
stan lee

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Dennis Lehane

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

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Claude Levi-Strauss

C.S. Lewis

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
Lewis Libby

From U.S. White House Biography Page (Wikipedia)
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
Laura Lippman

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

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.)
Ross Macdonald

Madonna

Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mann Thomas

Herbert Marcuse

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel García Márquez

James Marshall

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Jean Marzollo

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Larry McCaffery

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Horace McCoy

Carson McCullers

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Jimmy McDonough

Natalia Wisdom
Thomas McGuane

Audrey Hall
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

Cheryl Mendelson

Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
A. A. Milne

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

Tom Marcello, July 4, 1976
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Thurston Moore

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

Cookie Mueller

Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin (Basketball Player) Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Walter Dean Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Lilian Nattel

Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Nicholas Negroponte

Robert Scoble
Gerard De Nerval

Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Geoff Nicholson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Laura Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
MARY OLIVER

(c) Rachel Brown
Tillie Olsen

George Orwell

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
Will And Ma Osborne

Authors Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will Osborne read aloud to an ethusiastic crowd of young readers from her book, "American Tall Tales," Monday, April 9, 2007, during the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
(whitehouse.gov)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Greg Palast

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dorothy Parker

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

G88keeper
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Octavio Paz

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Richard Peck

George P. Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jaroslav Pelikan

Dale Pendell

Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Gary Phillips

Scott Phillips

scottphillipsauthor.com
Francis Picabia

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Philip C. Plait

ensceptico
Neal Pollack

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Iggy Pop

Credit: Robert Toren, 1980, at UC Davis
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Ernesto Quinonez

Francois Rabelais

Dee Dee Ramone

kjpm
Ayn Rand

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

Kathy Reichs

David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Society for American Baseball Research

Society for American Baseball Research
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud (on right). Andy Newcombe, April, 2007
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHenry Rollins

Photograph by Emma Farrer
Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Phyllis Root

Photo by Kelly Povo
Barney Rosset

Scott Rettberg, January 8, 2000
Davy Rothbart

Photo taken by Dorothy Gotlib.
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Douglas Rushkoff

KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series, April 2007, photo by Bruce Turner
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Robert Sabuda

Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
V. Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Marquis DeSade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

FELIX SALTEN

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)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Judy Schachner

Library of Congress
Rafik Schami

Photo by Rudolf Bauer / Wikimedia Commons
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
charles m. schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Jon Scieszka

Roebuck and Co. Incorporated Sears

Sears Merchandise Building Tower, Illinois, USA
John Delano
Albertus Seba

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maurice Sendak

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 ArtDesmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Shel Silverstein

Dave Sim

From Wikipedia
Michael Sims

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Patti Smith

Beni Köhler
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic Society

SUSAN SONTAG

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Domenic Stansberry

Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
Jason Starr

Ralph Steadman

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
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)
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Geronimo Stilton

PieterDP
Frank Stockton

See below.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Gene Stratton-Porter

Ball State University
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Tristan Taormino

Wonder14
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
James Taylor

Evan Osherow, November 2, 1999
Ernest L. Thayer

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

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Time Life

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao-Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva with Boing Boing, NYU 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Various

Salley Vickers

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Noah Webster

From Wikipedia Commons
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
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

Betty White

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr)
E.B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Wiggin Kate Douglas

Project Gutenberg
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.
Mike Wilks

Supplied by subject
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
George F. Will

Photo by Scott Ableman
Charles Williams

John Williams

Lauren Willig

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
David Wojnarowicz

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Wolfe

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Andrea Wyatt

Richard Bellak, photographer
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Herbert O. Yardley

USG official portrait, NSA
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Yevgeny (Eugene) Zamiatin

Frank Zappa

Helge Øverås, January 16th 1977
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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