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Hank Aaron

Wikimedia Commons (Photo by White House Photographers)
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
John L. Allen Jr.

John L. Allen, Jr. / Wikipedia
Sherwood Anderson

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

Mike Aquilina

Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
St. Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Robin Behn

University of Alabama
Saul Bellow

William Rose Benet

Luis Quintanilla
Thomas Berger

Georges Bernanos

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

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

Nic McPhee
Ancius Boethius

Robert Bolt

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

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

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
Terry Brooks

Kurt D. Bruner

owned by Kurt Bruner
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Pearl S. Buck

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

Library of Congress
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Ty Burr

Lori Yarvis
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Michael Casey

Photograph by Katherine Casey.
Willa Cather

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

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

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Walter van Tilburg Clark

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

Courtesy of R. J. Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
Margaret Coel

Taken by Lesa Holstine, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, Sept. 8, 2007
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Confucius

James Fenimore Cooper

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

Wikipedia Commons.
Sharon Creech

David Crystal

Richard Henry Dana

Robertson Davies

Dorothy Day

Thomas Day

Clairwitch, 2005
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Louis de Wohl

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Gordon Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

stephaniedowrick.com
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

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

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Oliver LaFarge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
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)
Timothy Ferriss

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Mitch Finley

Courtesy of the author.
Jude Fisher

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

Ian Fleming

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
Richard J. Foster

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
William Golding

William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pope St. Gregory the Great

Pope St. Gregory I by Master Theodorich of Prague, c. 1370.
Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
Graham Greene

Venerable Louis of Grenada

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Romano Guardini

http://www.helmut-zenz.de/
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jr. A.B. Guthrie

Scott Hahn

Photo © Fanny Surjana / Flickr
David Halberstam

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jon Hassler

Photo by Greg Becker
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Chip Heath

Chip and Dan Heath (Photo by Nathan Borror, Flickr)
Ernest Hemingway

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

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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Gilbert Highet

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

Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Robin Hobb

John Hollander

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert E. Howard

L. Ron Hubbard

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Pope John Paul II

Immaculee Ilibagiza

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tony Jones

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.)
Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Sheila Kaye-Smith

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Matthew Kelly

Used by permission
Elmer Kelton

Credit:Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Thomas Kempis

Ken Kesey

Joyce Kilmer

ca. 1918
Dean King

W.P. Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling


Peter Kreeft

http://www.peterkreeft.com/
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Anne Lamott

Louis L'Amour

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
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
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Library of Congress
Jack London

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

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Willie Mays

Willie Mays with arm around shoulders of Roy Campanella/photo by William C. Greene: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-112029)
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
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.
James A. Michener

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

Frank Minirth

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.)
Louis De Montfort

Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Patrick M. Morley

John Clifford Mortimer

University of Navarre

Universidad de Navarra. Photo by user Berlin 2209 / Wikimedia Commons.
John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganFlannery O'Connor

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
George Orwell

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

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Eugene H. Peterson

Henry Petroski

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Helen Prejean

Liturgical Press

St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. Photo by Kris Kampshoff / Wikimedia Commons.
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Redemptorist Pastoral Publications

Professional Cross of the Redemptorists. Photo by user FS Sebowsky / German Wikipedia.
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Francois Rabelais

Pope Benedict XVI

Wikipedia
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Conrad Richter

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Henry Morton Robinson

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

Eye on Books
Sax Rohmer

Edmond Rostand

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


Miguel de Cervantes

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

Francis De Sales

wikimedia commons
J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Jon Scieszka

David Meerman Scott

Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Fulton J. Sheen

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1952 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-123461)
Mary Wollstonecraft 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)
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
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).
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Mother Teresa

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
de Lisieux Therese, Saint

Statue of St. Thérèse, Holy Hill Shrine, Hubertus, Wisconsin. Photo by T. Canaan / Wikimedia Commons.
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Maria Augusta Trapp

Anthony Trollope

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

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

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Benet Tvedten

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sigrid Undset

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
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

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Walter Wangerin

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Robert E. Webber

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.)
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFranz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Photo by Scott Ableman
Charles Williams

Tad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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