nikkipierce's authors: 1121 authors | 376 with pictures | 745 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Keith Russell Ablow

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aeschylus

Qanta A. Ahmed

Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

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

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (cropped) ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Kate Atkinson

David. Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J.L. Austin

Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Matt Beaumont

Photo by Maria Beaumont
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Benson

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Mark Billingham

© Charlie Hopkinson 2007
John Birmingham

Photo: CraigPRichmond
Tracy Hughes

Robert Neumann, courtesy of Zondervan.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Raymond Blanc

LE MANOIR AUX QUAT' SAISONS
James Blunt

Drake LeLane (Seattle, 2006)
Stephen booth

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Russell Brand

Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.
Fernand Braudel

Ian Brodie

Anne Bronte

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
Dee Brown

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
BUNYAN

Anthony Burgess

Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books

Antonia S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Chelsea Cain

Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Jimmy Carr

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)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Chris Cleave

Charlie Hopkinson
Brian Clegg

Photo by the author
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

Jackie Collins

Phil Konstantin
Joan Collins

Phil Konstantin

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Patricia Cornwell

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

John Creasey

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Sophie Dahl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marie Darrieussecq

John Foley
Charles Darwin

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

Photo by Roderick Field
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest

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

In Kenya, 1918
Walt Disney

Stephen Dobyns

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Photo by Tim Duncan
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Umberto Eco

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

George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Church of England

Nave, Caterbury Cathedral. Image by Jim Bowen / Flickr.
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Helen Fielding

Orlando Figes

FScott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gustave Flaubert

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Julia Fox

Susan Greenhill
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sir James George Frazer

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Robert Frost

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

Angel Laws
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Katy Gardner

Lisa Gardner

Alex Garland

Mark Gatiss

eye4images
Mike Gayle

Photo by Liane Hentscher
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Ricky Gervais

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Glen David Gold

William Golding

Olivia Goldsmith

E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Graham Greene

George Grossmith

public domain image
Sandra Gulland

Richard Gulland
Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Geri Halliwell

Kura.kun, 2008
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Titania Hardie

Miguel A. Monjas
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Colette Harris

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Mo Hayder

Seamus Heaney

Ernest Hemingway

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

© Pan Macmillan
Noreena Hertz

www.chrismsaunders.com
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
E.J. Hobsbawm

Jilliane Hoffman

Wendy Holden

NICK HORNBY

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJerome K. Jerome

Neil Jordan

Photo by Franz Richter
James Joyce

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

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Stephen King

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

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Milan Kundera


Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
John Leake

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Harper Lee

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

Donna Leon


David Liss

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Matt Lucas

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Compton Mackenzie

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

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alexander Masters

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDaphne Du Maurier

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McDermott

Uploaded to Flickr by Cantabrigensis 21 Nov 2006
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Ewan McGregor

George Meredith

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

Henry Miller

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

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
A. A. Milne

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

Rohinton Mistry


Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Richard Montanari

Dominic Richard
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Kate Mosse


Natasha Mostert

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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

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

Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Amelie Nothomb

Carol O'Connell


George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Adele Parks

Photograph by Jim Pride
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
David Peace

Charles Glover
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elizabeth Peters

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Cecile Pineda

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Victoria Holt

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

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Roy Porter

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Gordon Ramsay

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Kathy Reichs

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Gary Rhodes

Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Bethan Roberts

Natalie Robins

Joyce Ravid

Peter Robinson

Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia

J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Dave Saunders

Center for American Progress
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gerald Seymour

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Javier Sierra

Photograph by Eva Pastor
Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Georges Simenon

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

Derek Thompson
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Maj Sjowall

Karin Slaughter

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Erica Spindler

Hoffman Miller Advertising
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Rebecca Stott

Kate Summerscale

Koji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Quentin Tarantino

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
G.P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Dylan

Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
John Kennedy Toole

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Ivan Turgenev

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

Ulla Montan
Various

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Danny Wallace

David Foster Wallace

Horace Walpole

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
JACK WELCH

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Oscar Wilde

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

Photo by Liam Burke
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
JEANETTE WINTERSON

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Ronald Wright

Nick Wiebe
Carlos Ruiz; Graves Zafon, Lucia (Translator)

Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Help/FAQs |
About |
Privacy/Terms |
Blog |
Contact |
APIs |
WikiThing |
Common Knowledge |
46,831,508 books!
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.
| static: /