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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie
(Photograph by Lou Abercrombie)
Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Guy Adams

Provided by user iamiam (publisher)
Scott Adams

Pamela Aidan

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Alfred Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Bonnie S. Anderson

Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Keri Arthur

Courtesy of Keri Arthur.
Daisy Ashford

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-30073
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W. H. Auden


Jane Austen

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

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
J.M. Barrie

Basho Matsuo

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Edith Van Dyne

Library of Congress
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Hans De Beer

Antony Beevor

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Linda Berdoll

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sarah Rees Brennan

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Julia Briggs

Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Raymond Briggs

Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Chester Brown

Photograph by Joel Friesen
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marc Brown

Pieter Bruegel

wikipedia
Mary Brunton

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

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen

Lois Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Bulfinch

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)
Jim Butcher

Francelia Butler

Francelia Butler, Halloween 1990, Mansfield Hollow, Conn.
Samuel Butler

George Gordon Noel Byron

Simon Callow

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Orson Scott Card

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Jordan Castillo Price

photo by the author
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Loretta Chase

From LorettaChase.com
Mary Cholmondeley

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Judy Collins

Dennis Cooper

Fiona Cooper

Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler
Edward Estlin Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Peter David

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Jared M. Diamond

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Mary Mapes Dodge

John Donne

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

Eye on Books
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Edmund Dulac

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

Billlion
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Maria Edgeworth

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

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

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

Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Eric Flint

John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Antonia Forest

Courtesy of Sue Sims.
Katherine V. Forrest

from author's home page -- no credit listed
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. Foster

Christopher Fowler

Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Katherine Frank

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
Robert Frost

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

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Neil Gaiman

Francis Galton

From "The Life, Letters, and Labors of Francis Galton" by Karl Pearson.
Jane Gardam

Helen Louise Gardner

John Burlinson
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Bob Geldof

Credit: Barbara Mürdter, 1991
Adele Geras

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
George Gissing

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

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Diane Goode

Peter Goode
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Bob Graham

Sen. Bob Graham's U.S. Senate Photo (Wikipedia)
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Lady Gregory

Image from Irish plays and playwrights (1913) by Cornelius Weygandt
Jane Grigson

The Brothers 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.)
Jacob Grimm

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

State22
Gary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Geraldine Harris

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Rosemary Harris

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/7/08, Scottsdale, AZ
Peter Hart

Paul Hazard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-16572)
(cropped)
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
S Heaney

Greidrick Heer

Heinlein Robert A.

Robert Herrick

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

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

C.Walter Hodges

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

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Heinrich Hoffmann

Wikimedia Commons
Hans Holbein

Hans Holbein the Younger
Self-portrait, 1541,
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
(Yorck Project)
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Amanda Hopkinson

Housman. Laurence

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Langston Hughes

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

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
C.L.R. James

Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Oliver James

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anna Brownell Jameson

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Henry Jenkins

Joi Ito
Jocelin of Brakelond

Ruins of Bury St. Edmond's Abbey, Suffolk, England, 2003. Photo by Bob Jones / Geograph Project
James Earl Jones

U.S. House of Congress Website, 2002 (Cropped)
Patrick Kavanagh

Sheila Kaye-Smith

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

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Steven Kellogg

Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Rudyard Kipling

Walter Koenig

ComicCon Dallas, March 17, 2007, photo by Kelly Roberts
David Konstan

Jayne Ann Krentz

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Elizabeth Laird

Derek Landy

Derek Landy (on right). Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
J. L. Langley

Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stephen Butler Leacock

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

wikimedia commons
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C. S. Lewis

Alison Light

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Federico García Lorca

Jean Lorrah

no credit given
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
James Marshall

Peter Marshall

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.)
George R. R. Martin

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

Library of Congress
Bobbie Ann Mason

Anne McCaffrey

Geraldine McCaughrean

Sharyn McCrumb

Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
China Mieville

Dennis Miller

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)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Gladys Mitchell

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Kevin Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
Jill Murphy

E Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Nichelle Nichols

Photo by "Natural Gas" (Flickr) taken at DragonCon 2002
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Trinka Hakes Noble

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

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

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
A.B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Iain Pears

M. J. Pearson

MJ Pearson
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Elizabeth Peters

Henry Petroski

Jan Pienkowski

Tamora Pierce

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Patricia Polacco

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/polacco_3.jpg
Roy Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
T. A. Pratt

Photo by Heather Shaw
Alice Provensen

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Barbara Pym

Gordon Ramsay

Charles. Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Vanessa Redgrave

Elena Torre
David Rees

Mary Renault

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
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)
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Jon Scieszka

Maurice Sendak

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Owen Barfield Society photo
Joann Sfar

Credit: Jean-noël Lafargue, 2003
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
William Shatner

Bob Shaw

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

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Delia Sherman

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
R C Sherriff

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

Alan Sillitoe

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

photo by Monica Garnsey
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Speare

Dale Spender

Monica Spender
Wesley Stace

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Mark Steel

flickr user Loz Flowers. Credited at Wikipedia to user Loz Pycock.
George Steiner

James Stephens

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

Frank R. Stockton

See below.
Hilda Van Stockum

Hilda van Stockum
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Matthew Sweet

Tom McShane
George Takei

Photo credit: Diane Krauss, Aug. 17, 1996
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Elizabeth Taylor

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

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Eve Tharlet

Miriam Toews

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Keith Topping

Anthony Trollope

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

G B Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ethel Turner

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Harriet Walter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jo Walton

Elisabeth Waters

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Colin Watson

John Burlinson
Archibald Percival Wavell

carl.army.mil
Emma Campbell Webster

Sara Dunn
Brent Weeks

Travis Johnson Photography
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
James White

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Wick

(c) 2007 Steven Goldstein / Keyhole Productions Photography (Source: Flickr)
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Liz Williams

(c) Kate Eshelby, 2007, courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
P.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Jane Yolen


Charlotte M. Yonge

Image from: Charlotte Mary Yonge by Christabel Coleridge. London: MacMillan and Co., 1903.
Lisbeth Zwerger

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