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Paperback Pirate
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Alain-Fournier,

Wikipédia France
Louisa May Alcott

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
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Diane Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Arnold Auerbach

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Trezza Azzopardi

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M Barrie

Sebastian Barry

Samuel Beckett

Hilaire Belloc

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
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
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Lewis Carroll

Graham Chapman

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)
William Cobbett

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

Patricia Cornwell

Nicholas Culpeper

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

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
"Reader's Digest"

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Chitra Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
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)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Gustave Flaubert

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Fowler

John Fowles

Dick Francis

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
James George Frazer

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Jane Gardam

Lisa Gardner

Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Gail Godwin

William Golding

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia

Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet

Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Matthew Hart

Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Herman Hesse

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

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Burne Hogarth

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Paul Jaskunas

Photograph by Andrew Bruch
Morag Joss

Jerry Bauer
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Stephen King

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

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
"Harvard Lampoon"

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueElsebeth Lavold

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Suzanne Braun Levine

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
C. S. Lewis

Toby Litt

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Compton MacKenzie

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

© Daniele Schaub
Daphne Du Maurier

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Eugene McCabe

Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Frank McCourt

Tim McCreight

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladˆimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Edith Nesbit
Beverley Nichols

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

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Victoria Holt

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

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Gordon Ramsay

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
A. R. R. R. ROBERTS

Georges Seguin
Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
J. D. Robb

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Marilynne Robinson

Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Arundhati Roy

Nicholas Royle

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
J.D. Salinger

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Georges Simenon

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

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Diana Souhami


John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Sting

Lionel Urman
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
J.R.R. Tolkien

Violet Trefusis

John Burlinson
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various

Virgil

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
Oscar Wilde

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

jeanettewinterson.com
P. G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

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