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Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

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

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Steven Bach

Jerry Bauer
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J. M. Barrie

Stephanie Barron

T. A. Barron

Dave Barry

Marion Dane Bauer

mariondanebauer.com
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Sally Benson

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

Steve Berman

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Herbie Brennan

Julia Briggs

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)
Terry Brooks

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
John Bunyan

Christian Burch

Betsy Cromer Byars

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

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

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
C.J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Cinda Williams Chima

Photo by Pamela Z. Daum
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Russell Conwell

Paul Cornell

Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Miss (illus: Hope Dunlap) Mulock, Illustrated by Dunlap, Hope

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

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

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Bette Davis

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

War Department

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Matthew T. Dickerson

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.)
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Walt Disney Pictures

E.L. Doctorow

Mary Mapes Dodge

Stephen R. Donaldson

Dave Dravecky

Allison DuBois

Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Henry Van Dyke

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

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

Photo copyrighted by L. Bernie Gallaher, 1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78021)
Eleanor Estes

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

Eye on Books
Edna ferber

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

Martha Finley [aka Martha Farquharson] (1828-1909) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Dorothy Canfield

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

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Kathryn Forbes

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

Photo by Michael Thomas Ford
E. M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fox

John Fox (3)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

John Lydecker

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Lillian Gish

1921 photograph
George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-32655)
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jim Grimsley

Emory University
Ursula K. Le Guin

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Brent Hartinger

Photo by Tim Cathersal
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
David G. Hartwell: editor

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Zahi Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Annie S. Hawks

Annie Sherwood Hawks (b.1835), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

O. Henry

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

courtesy of Homer Hickam
James Hilton

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

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

© Jess Barber 2004
E.T.A. Hoffmann

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

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Eva Ibbotson

Paul Jennings

Garson Kanin

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

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Peg Kehret

Vicki Taylor
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
P. B. Kerr

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Stephen King

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

Carole Kismaric

David LaRochelle

Courtesy of David LaRochelle
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C. S. Lewis

Penelope Lively

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
George MacDonald

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.)
Compton Mackenzie

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

Eye on Books
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Leonard Maltin

Walter de la Mare

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

John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Richard Matheson

Daphne du Maurier

Dave McKean

Photo taken by Kris A. Celario, can be viewed on
FlikrPatricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Margaret Mitchell Marsh

Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Mary Tyler Moore

Moore with House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Children's Congress delegates from Illinois
Perry Moore

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Jill Murphy

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Garth Nix

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Richard Peck

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Jan Pienkowski

Emily Post

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
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

Robin Reardon

Dian Curtis Regan

Kathryn Reiss

Mills College
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Mike Resnick

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Marilynne Robinson

Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
J. K. Rowling

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Gary Russell

Alex Sanchez

Kevin Kerdash
Sears Roebuck and Co.

Sears Merchandise Building Tower, Illinois, USA
John Delano
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Margery Sharp

Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
National Geographic Society

Elizabeth George Speare

Johanna Spyri

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Booth TArkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Deems; Foreward By Leopold Stokowski Taylor

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mel Torme

Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped ~ Wikipedia & Flickr)
Maria Augusta Trapp

P.L. Travers

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

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Voltaire

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Library of Congress
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
E B White

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

Project Gutenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Ben Ames Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Edward D. Wood

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Patricia C Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Jane Yolen

Chic Young

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
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