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D'Arcy Norman
Andrew Abbott

Shaila Abdullah

Galina Stepanova
Alex Abella

Adolphe Adam

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

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Theodor W. Adorno

James Agee

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Isaac Albeniz

Isaac Albeniz
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Steve Almond

Julia Alvarez

Kingsley Amis

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112044)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Elena Torre
Louis Armstrong

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127236)
Sholem Asch

Nava Atlas

Evan Atlas
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

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

Source: US President's Council on < br> Physical Fitness and Sports
Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Russell Baker

Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Bela Bartok

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Najmieh Batmanglij

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Peter Beard

2004 Alexandre Bailhache
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Samuel Beckett

Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Edward Bellamy

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Editor Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Arnold Bennett

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Alban Berg

Ingmar Bergman

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Wendell Berry

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Georges Bizet

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

Thomas Phillips
Ernest Bloch

Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Arrigo Boito

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Mary Borden

Jorge Luis Borges

Kay Boyle

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Johannes Brahms

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Bertolt Brecht

Robert Bridges

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hermann Broch

Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)

Louis Bromfield

Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)

Anne Bronte


Charlotte Brontë

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
William Wells Brown

From an 1854 publication
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
Ferruccio Busoni

Postcard, circa 1890-1900 (George Grantham Bain Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-126592)
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George W. Cable

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)

John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
CATHER WILLA

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Bennett Cerf

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

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

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
ANTON CHEKHOV

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

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Agatha Christie

Catherine Clément

Esby
Jean Cocteau

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

Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Mike Cooper

Andy Newcombe, September 20, 2007
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Victor Talking Machine Company

Victor Talking Machine Company
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
Saint John of the Cross

Jorge Cruise

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Robertson Davies

Clarence Day

Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Leo Delibes

from Wikipedia
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

David Deutsch

Dave Dewitt

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Matthew Dicks

Joan Didion

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

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Gaetano Donizetti

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Fyodor ; Garnett Dostoyevsky, Constance (translator)

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Mark Dunn

Anton Dvorak

Public domain (Wikipedia)
David Edmonds

Sergei Eisenstein

George Eliot

painting by François D'Albert Durade
T. S. Eliot

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
A Escoffier

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Marc Estrin

Manuel de Falla

William Faulkner

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

Matt Derry
Eugene Field

Professor Orlando Figes

Friedrich von Flotow

Kathryn Forbes

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Aminatta Forna

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Mary] Frank [Kingsley, Katherine

Debra Frasier

Courtesy of Debra Frasier
Alexandra Fuller

Kuki Gallmann

Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

William John Thomson
Eleanor Gates

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
George Gershwin

Carl Van Vechten (1937)
Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Umberto Giordano

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Michail Ivanovich Glinka

From March 1913 "The Etude" (Wikipedia)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

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

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai; Evergood Gogol, Philip -Illus

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

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Amit Goswami

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Charles Gounod

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians" by Rupert Hughes
Lucy Grealy

Graham Greene

Stephanie Greene

Courtesy of Stephanie Greene
edvard grieg

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Martha Grimes

Ferde Grofe

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Jennifer Haigh

photo: Asia Kepka
David Halberstam

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Masha Hamilton

Photo by Briana Orr
Eduard Hanslick


Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jessica B. Harris

Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
Robert Harris

Aidan Hartley

James Brabazon
Mickey Hart

Web 2.0 Conference 2005 (Photo credit: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Moss Hart

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joan D. Hedrick

Courtesy Columbia University
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Martin Heidegger

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
O. Henry

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

Victor Herbert (Musician) ~ From "What We Hear in Music, Anne Faulkner, 1913
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John. Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

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

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

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
James Hilton

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

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Christopher Hitchens

Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Langston (editor) Hughes

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

wikipedia
Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Wikipedia Commons.
Engelbert Humperdinck

From "What We Hear In Music" by Anne S. Faulkner (1913).
Deirdre Imus

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Saxe (Commins, Ed.) Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Introduction by Heywood Broun Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Scott Joplin

[Portrait of Scott Joplin], taken from
American Musician (June 17, 1907). Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress.
(
memory.loc.gov)
James Joyce

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

MDCarchives
Jan Karon

Mary Karr

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
M.M.Kaye

Elia Kazan

James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
M.J. Farrell

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Agnes Newton Keith

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

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Wilhelm Kienzl

Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Larry King

Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley.
Rudyard Kipling

Ann Kirschner

Caroline Knapp

Lily Koppel

Photo by Lilithcat
Alex Kotlowitz

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Sandra Kring

Victorian Gables Studio, Prentice, WI
Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
Akira Kurosawa

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Wanda Landowska

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Fritz Lang

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
L. S. B. Leakey

Franz Lehar

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Theatrical poster, 1906
(Theatrical Poster Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division)
Mihail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Montel Williams & Lini Linguvic ~ Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Liss

John Lithgow

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Aimee Liu

Penelope Lively

Norah Lofts

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

Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00433)
(cropped)
Edward MacDowell

From "What We Hear in Music," Anne Faulkner, 1913 (Wikipedia)
Alistair Macleod

University of Windsor
Deborah Madison

Adeline Yen Mah

Alma Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Leonard Maltin

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Max Maretzek

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Maretzek.jpg
Walter De LA Mare

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

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel García Márquez

John Marshall

Paule Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Russell Martin

Groucho Marx

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

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35628
Jules Massenet

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


DU MAURIER DAPHNE

George Du Maurier

Elliott & Fry
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Frank McCourt

Thomas McGuane

Audrey Hall
John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Dinaw Mengestu

Blair Feathers
Yehudi Menuhin

James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Wikimedia Commons
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Steven Millhauser

Rohinton Mistry

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Christopher Morley

Mary McGarry Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
John Mortimer

W. A. Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Modest Mussorgsky

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

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

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Laura Joffe Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jacques Offenbach

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Liam (edited by Devin A. Garrity) O'Flaherty

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

Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)
George Orwell

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Luciano Pavarotti

Pirlouiiiit
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Charles S. Peirce

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Elizabeth Peters

Margot Peters

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mary Pipher

Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov

©The Random House Group
Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Roman Polanski

Lorenzo Da Ponte

18th century portrait of Lorenzo da Ponte
Edith Pope

Florida Memory: State Archives of Florida, N027937
Katherine Anne Porter

Laurens Van der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Chaim Potok

Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAnthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Dawn Powell

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Sergei Prokofiev

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Anna Quindlen

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-33968)
(cropped)
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Carol Reed

Kit Reed

kitreed.net
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Jean Renoir

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

Nancy Warner
Matthieu Ricard

Polaroid of Matthieu Ricard taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (Wikimedia)
Jacob A. Riis

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Daniel Asa Rose

John Goodman
Phyllis Rose

Ann B. Ross

Ann B. Ross
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
Arundhati Roy

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Tim Russert

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Camille Saint-Saens

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
H. H. Munro

wikimedia commons
J. D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRobert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

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

Erik Satie. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Wikimedia Commons.
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Olive Schreiner

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

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
Robert Schumann

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Danzy Senna

Kamila Shamsie

MARGERY SHARP

Suzanne Strempek Shea

Photo by Nancy Palmieri
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Nevil Shute

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

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Georges Simenon

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

(Library of Congress Van Vechten Photographs LOT 12735, no. 1039)
Isaac Bashevis. Singer

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Cornelia Otis Skinner

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

John Burlinson
Hartzell Spence

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

Johanna Spyri

Konstantin Sergeivitch; Robbins Stanislavsky, J. J. (translator)

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35320
Wallace Stegner

JOHN STEINBECK

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

Joseph Labolito
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Leah Stewart

Photo by Carolyn Ebbitt
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
introduction Raymond Weaver Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Johann Strauss

Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Strauss

Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Emanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Susie King Taylor

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ61-1863)
(cropped)
Peter Tchaikovsky

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ngugi

Public-Conversations
Marlo Thomas

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

Lucy Gray
Virgil Thomson

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42533 DLC
graf Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Rose Tremain

Calvin Trillin

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
anne tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
various authors

various composers

Thorsten Veblen

Wikipedia
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