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DOUGLAS ADAMS

Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Richard Allestree

David Anderson

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.)
Hiroshige

Posthumous memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada
K.A. Applegate

Heli12
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
St. Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
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.
Baedeker Guides

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Isaac Barrow

Published 1811
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Nicholas A. Basbanes

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Simone De Beauvoir

Bede

John Berendt

Eye on Books
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Gillian Bradshaw

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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)
Thomas Browne, Sir

Laurent De Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Nancy Bush

Samuel Butler

Caesar

public domain
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Willa Cather

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

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Charles Churchill

Engravings of British Methodist clergy collection, Pitts Library, Emory University
Winston Churchill, Sir

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
COOKE ALISTAIR

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Setphen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Thomas Creevey

Image from The Creevey papers; a selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey (1904) edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell
Robertson Davies

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Isaac Disraeli

Wikipedia
Austin Dobson

Image from Collected poems (1897) by Austin Dobson
John Donne

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

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Alexandre Dumas pere

Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

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

from Wikipedia
George Eliot

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

William Empson

John Burlinson
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Eleanor Estes

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

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Niall Ferguson

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Dorothy Canfield

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

Shelby Foote

Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer, Sir

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Thomas Fuller

lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
John Gay

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
W S Gilbert

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

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

G. Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Christopher Hibbert

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
James Hilton

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

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A E Housman

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mary Hyde Eccles

From the book, Four Oaks Farm, published in 1967
Montague Rhodes James

www.stephengray.net
Storm Jameson

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

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyJerome K. Jerome

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Terry Jones

Neil Jordan

Photo by Franz Richter
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Thomas a Kempis

Margaret Kennedy

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

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Elsebeth Lavold

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
William Law

Harper Lee

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Allison K. Leopold

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.s. Lewis

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
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)
Anita Loos

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

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucretius

John Lydgate

Here begynneth the testament of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry (London: Richard Pynson, 1520)
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

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.)
Ian MacLaren

E. Goldensky (photographer) / G. H. Goudiss
David R. Mains

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marquis Don

Somerset Maugham

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

Dame Daphne Du Maurier

George Du Maurier

Elliott & Fry
Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Malachy McCourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Sharyn McCrumb

Mark McCrum

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Colleen McCullough

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.
Edna St Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Kate Millett

A. A. Milne

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

Mary Russell Mitford

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Montaigne translated by Donald M. Frame

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Elaine Morgan

Samuel E. Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Christopher Morley

John Mortimer

C. E. Murphy

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Beverley Nichols

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

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

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Mrs Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Richard Peck

Samuel Pepys

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

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Roy Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Matthew Prior

Marcel Proust

Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Sir

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

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Renault

Agnes Repplier

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

Self-Portrait (Wikimedia Commons)
Samuel Richardson

Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Sax Rohmer

Phyllis Rose

J.K. Rowling

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Walter Scott

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

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
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Percy Shelley

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

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

Photo by Brooke Sinnes
Harry George Wakelyn Smith

Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith. Frontispiece from The autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G.C.B.; (1902)
Tobias Smollet

from Wikipedia
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Oswald Spengler

Edmund Spenser

Vincent Starrett

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Gottfried von Strassburg

Gloria Swanson

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

John Burlinson
J.R.R. Tolkien

P. L. Travers

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Trumbo Dalton

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Robert M. Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Horace Walpole

Kathy Watson

The Royal Literary Fund
James Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Rebecca West

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

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

Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams, Yerevan, Armenia. Photo by user RaffiKojian / Wikimedia Commons.
P.G. Wodehouse

James Woodforde

abbottthomas
Alexander Woolcott

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

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

Edward Young, Poet (1683-1765), Wkimedia Commons
Detail of Illustration from Works of the English Poets with prefaces
Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. 68 vols. Vol. 15 (1779)
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
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