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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
S.Y. Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

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

Kingsley Amis

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

Jean Anouilh

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Marcel Ayme

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Dorothy Baker

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

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Saul Bellow

E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Georges Bernanos

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

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Marjorie Bowen

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


Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

David Brin

By R. Feist
Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
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
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Algis Budrys

Shunn
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

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)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Camilo Jose Cela

ÁWá
Adelbert Von Chamisso

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1958 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121944)
Anton Chekhov

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G.K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Douglas Clegg

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Jean Cocteau

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

from Wikipedia
Nancy A. Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
William Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

William Congreve

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Norman Cousins

Noel Coward

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

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Eleanor Dark

Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Avram Davidson

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Daniel Odier

Daniel Odier
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Lester Del Rey

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

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

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Dr. James Dobson

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.)
E.L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

J.P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

stephaniedowrick.com

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Lord Dunsany

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

Umberto Eco

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

George Eliot

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Harlan Ellison

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

Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte


Dennis Etchison

Nihonjoe
Euripides

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

Oliver La Farge

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
James T. Farrell

John Farris

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Charles G. Finney

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.)
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Pat Frank

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

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Neil Gaiman

Stephen Gallagher

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Hamlin Garland

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

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
John Gay

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jane Gleeson-White

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

William Golding

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Maxim Gorky

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

from Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

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

Henry Green

Joel B. Green

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.)
Julian Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Dag Hammarskjold

UN/DPI
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

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

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Robert A. Heinlein


Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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.
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Xavier Herbert

Darwin 1938, State Library of NSW.
Herodotus

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
A.E. Housman

Robert E. Howard

W.H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Victor Hugo

wikipedia

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksK.W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Stephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas A. Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Gerald Kersh

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


Stephen King

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

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Dean Koontz

Jerzy Kosinski

R.A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
R.D. Laing

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

wikipedia
George Lamming

George Lamming, 1955. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-114409)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stephen Laws

photographer - Terry White.
copyright Stephen Laws
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

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C.S. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Wyndham Lewis

Suzanne Lilar

Photo of Suzanne Lilar taken by her daughter, Marie Fredericq-Lilar
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Library of Congress
Paul Livingston

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
James Lovegrove

Katie Vandyck
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson

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

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Colin MacInnes

Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hugh MacLennan

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

Carl Van Vechten
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Walter De La Mare

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

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ngaio Marsh

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
A.E.W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin

Richard Matheson

Charles Robert Maturin

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

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Maureen McCarthy

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Carson McCullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
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.
Arthur Miller

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

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

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A.A. Milne

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Mary Ann Mitchell

Courtesy of the author.
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Russell Mitford

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Brent Monahan

Brent Monahan
by Caitlin Monahan
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
C.L. Moore

John Burlinson
George Moore

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
David Morrell

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Prosper Mérimée

Wikipédia France
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
Natsume Soseki

Pablo Neruda

Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Anaïs Nin

Garth Nix

William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Julian of Norwich


Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press

Flannery O'Connor

Liam O'Flaherty

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

John O'Hara

Anthony O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jefferson Parker

Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
A.B. "Banjo" Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Petronius

Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Felice Picano

Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Laurens van der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Chaim Potok


Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Katharine Susannah Prichard

May Moore (d. 1931)
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
J.B. Priestley

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

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

Robin Reese
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Eca de Queiroz

Francisco de Quevedo

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Kathleen Raine

Meladina
Derek Raymond

Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Piers Paul Read

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ernest Renan

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

Becket M. Ghioto
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Conrad Richter

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

copyright John Mason.
Tom Robbins

Jules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Joseph Roth

Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Gabrielle Roy

Bank of Canada
Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Liz Henry
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Saint Francis De Sales

wikimedia commons
J.D. Salinger

William Saroyan

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienDavid J. Schow

Damon D'Amato - Wikimedia Commons
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Budd Schulberg

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