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Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Benedict R..O.'G. Anderson (editor)

Public-conversations
Sherwood Anderson

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

Terry O’Neill
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Paul Bowles

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Eye on Books
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Chekov

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

wikipedia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sharon Creech

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)
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Charles Darwin

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

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Louis De Wohl

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
RH Disney

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas Jr.

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
VanDykeHenry

Henry Van Dyke and wife: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-17998)
George Eliot

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

Christopher Jones
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
J. Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
William Faulkner

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

Allan Folsom

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Dick Francis

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Stephen W. Frey

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Kuki Gallmann

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Kahlil Gibran

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

David Loftus
Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Maxim Gorki

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graysmith

Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

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

Tom Corcoran
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Knut Hamsun

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

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

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)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

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

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Jack Higgins

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
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
Takuboku Ishikawa

wikimedia commons - Statue of Ishikawa Takuboku in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Henry James

Wikipedia
Montague Rhodes James

www.stephengray.net
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Jerome K. Jerome

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
F. Sionil Jose

Photo by Raffy Espiritu on Flickr, edited by Wikimedia Commons uploader.
Franz Kafka

Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Kamo-Chomei

Kamo no Chomei. Drawing by Kikuchi Yosai. Wikimedia Commons.
Jan Karon

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Donald Keene (editor)

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Ken Kesey

Ronald Kessler

ronaldkessler.com
Hank Ketcham

Inkpot Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Milan Kundera

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
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
Stan Lee

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Leslie Linsley

Jon Aron
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Eric Lustbader

Niccolo Machiavelli (et.al.)

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Gabriel García Márquez

Steve Martini

Carol Matas

Ruth Bonneville
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Evan Hunter

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Anne McCaffrey

Carson McCullers

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

James A. Michener

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
A. B. Mitford

Samuel Lawrence
Alberto Moravia

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

Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Soseki Natsume

Carla Neggers

Jawaharlal Nehru

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Janette Oke

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.)
Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

Sara Paretsky

Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Perry

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
A.S. Pushkin (et. al.)

courtesy Wikipedia
Edogawa Rampo

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jose Rizal

wikimedia commons
Romain Rolland

J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

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)
Rafael Sabatini

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir, age 28, Chicago, IL. Frontispiece from The collected works of Edward Sapir (1900) Volume 3
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nevil Shute

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Susan Sontag

Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Alfred Stieglitz

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 17, 1935 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-103681)
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

John Szarkowski

Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Quentin Tarantino

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Michael Tournier

Isabella Tree

Photo: Charlie Burrell
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

ROBERT JAMES WALLER

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Yuu Watase

Simone Marchi
Evelyn Waugh

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

Tracey Nolan
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

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

Library of Congress
Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Lee Young-You

Georges Seguin
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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