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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Conrad Aiken

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

Wayne C. Roth
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Steve Almond

William L. Andrews

Anonymous

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Keri Arthur

Courtesy of Keri Arthur.

Neal Asher

Machado De Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Isaac Babel

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

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia

Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Walter Benjamin

Arnold Bennett

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

Otto L. Bettmann

World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1947 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5867)
Hiram Bingham

Congressional photo
Isabella Bird

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University

Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
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)
Dee Brown

Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Stephen Budiansky


Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Michelangelo

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Sir Richard F. Burton

Nancy Bush

Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Lewis Buzbee


A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Andrea Camilleri

Elias Canetti

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
John Le Carre

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Sarah Caudwell

John Burlinson
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Karen Chance

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Charles W. Chesnutt

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

wikipedia
Denise Chong

Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Roxanne J. Coady

Courtesy of R. J. Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Colin Cotterill

self portrait by Colin Cotterill
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
David Crystal

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
Peter David

Robertson Davies

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Gordon Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
William C. Dietz

Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Denis Donoghue

Maureen Dowd

Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Johanna Drucker

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Umberto Eco

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

Sophie Egan
George Eliot

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

Eye on Books
Earl W. Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
Anne Ed Fadiman

Connie Miller
Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Viktor E. Frankl

Charles Frazier

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Roger Fry

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Margaret Fuller

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


Neil Gaiman


William Gibson

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Aliza Green

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher
Martha Grimes

Ursula K. Le Guin

Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thich Nhat Hanh

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Anne Hébert

Harry Palmer (1986)
Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Robert A. Heinlein

Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Edward Hirsch

Eric Hobsbawm

bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Edward Hopper

Self Portrait, 1906
Nick Hornby

W.D. Howells

from Wikipedia
J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Holbrook. Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Jens Peter Jacobsen

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Peter James

William James

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

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

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Lloyd Kahn

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Marshall Karp

Fran Gormley, photographer (www.frangormley.com)
Joanna Kavenna

John Keats

Hugh Kenner

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Karen Kingston

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Paul Klee

Donna Kooler

Gary Kowalski

Gary Kowalski, author
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Brian Lamb

Brain Lamb (left) being congratulated at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Anne Lamott

Philip Larkin

Elsebeth Lavold

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Sharon Lee

G. Leick

Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Aldo Leopold

Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
FlickrJonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Penelope Lively

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
JACK LONDON

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

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Ken MacLeod

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
J. D. McClatchy

Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
H. L. Mencken

China Mieville

Alistair Moffat

The Monks of New Skete

New Skete Monastery in the Snow. Photo by user Temp / Wikipedia.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Dinty W. Moore

Courtesy of the author
Richard K. Morgan

Marcia Muller

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
C.E. Murphy

Joseph Murphy

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mark L. Van Name

Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Tomas O'Crohan

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alicia S Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (1937- )
Alicia Ostriker howling: remembering Allen Ginsberg.
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Philip Palmer

Charlie Hopkinson
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Thomas Perry

Fernando Pessoa

Elizabeth Peters

Henry Petroski

Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Sir Arthur. Quiller-Couch

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

Author: Larry D. Moore
Jules Renard

Wikimedia Commons
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Kat Richardson

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
James Clemens

Phyllis Rose Editor

Davy Rothbart

Photo taken by Dorothy Gotlib.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

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

Liz Henry
Fred Saberhagen

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)

John Scalzi

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Shannon Mckenna Schmidt

Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Mike Shepherd

Mike Shepherd Moscoe at the 2005 Nebula Awards weekend
Ignazio Silone

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

photo by Avery Photographic Arts
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Cordwainer Smith

Kristine Smith

Studio West
Roger Smith

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Dana Stabenow

"Starhawk"

photo by Bert Meijer
Allen Steele

Geoffrey A. Landis
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jeanne C. Stein

Kelly Weaver Photography/ Denver
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Stevenson Robert Louis

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Stross

Wislawa Szymborska

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Twyla Tharp

2004 Medalist Twyla Tharp with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and National Council on the Arts member Mary Costa.
Photo by Victoria Hutter.
Celia Thaxter

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

Lewis Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Miriam Toews

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Anne Truitt

Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Scott Turow


Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jeff Vandermeer

Carl Van Vechten

Self-portrait, April 3, 1934 (Carl Van Vechten Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-124551)
Various

Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
C. F. Volney

Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Foster Wallace

David Weber

James White

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

Elena Seibert
Kate Wilhelm

Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Daniel H. Wilson

Marcin Wichary
Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
C. Leonard Woolley

David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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