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Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Sherwood Anderson

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

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand. Photo by user Gadfium / Wikimedia Commons
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
W. H. Auden

Augustine

D. E. Aune

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.)
Jane Austen

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

Bil Baird (right) with one of his puppets. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Russell [Editor] Baker

Melissa Bank

William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Karl Barth

Ellen Bass

Janet Bryer
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Hans de Beer

Martin Bell

Leonardo Boff

Credit: Hermínio Oliveira/Agência Brasil, 2003
Christopher A. Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Erma Bombeck

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ray Bradbury

ANN BRASHARES

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
John Bright

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
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
Jill Conner Browne

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

MDCarchives
Robert Byrne

John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Bebe Moore Campbell

Barbara DuMetz
Tony Campolo

Wikipedia
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Lewis Carroll

Agatha Christie

Theology and Worship Ministry Unit for the Presbyterian Church

Rockville Presbyterian Church, Rockville, Maryland. Photo by Scott Robinson / Flickr.
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
John B. Cobb Jr.

Silversoul7
Paulo Coelho

Eleanor Coerr

William Sloane Coffin

Shaye J. D. Cohen

courtesy of the author
Sharon Creech

American National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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)
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Ellen DeGeneres

Credit: Alan Light, 2004, Los Angeles,
Oprah Winfrey's birthday party
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Marian Wright Edelman

Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Church of England

Nave, Caterbury Cathedral. Image by Jim Bowen / Flickr.
D. R. Evans

Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
William Faulkner

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

John Field

John Field (1782-1837) / by Anton Wachsmann / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJanet Fitch

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Susan R. Garrett

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.)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Joyce Ravid
God

Iridescent Glory of Nearby Helix Nebula (aka The Eye of God) as photographed by The Hubble Telescope
Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).
Gail Godwin

Peter J. Gomes

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Ariel Gore

Photo by Tiffany Talbott
Myrna Grant

Joan S. Gray

Photo by Maynard Pittendreigh (Wikipedia)
Girl Scouts of the USA

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
Washington National Cathedral

Photo by Wyn Van Devanter / Flickr.
Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
Gustavo Gutierrez

Mohan
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

Roger Ericson
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
John Hart

Abigail Seymour Photography
Stanley Hauerwas

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.)
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), portrait by George Bagby Matthews, circa 1891 (Art Collection of the U.S. Senate)
Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nick Hornby

Angela Elwell Hunt

Photo by Ken Rada
John R. Kohlenberger, III

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henry James

Wikipedia
Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Owen Johnson

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
James Joyce

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Anne Lamott

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
C.S. Lewis

Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
Jean Little

Martin Luther

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Archibald MacLeish

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Bruce Metzger

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.)
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
A. A. Milne

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

Wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill Moyers

Jill Murphy

David G. Myers

United Nations

President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations General Assembly Nov. 10, 2001. White House photo by Paul Morse.
(whitehouse.gov)
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Paul Newman

TriviaKing
Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Julian of Norwich

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Laura Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Peter Occhiogrosso

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Marie Olofsdotter

Photo by Usry Alleyne
Erica Orloff

Liza Palmer

lizapalmer.com
Rosa Parks

James Patterson

John Perkins

Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Eugene H. Peterson

Marcus Pfister

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mary Pipher

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Chaim Potok

Helen Prejean

Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Sheri Reynolds

sherireynolds.com
Marilynne Robinson

Roxana Robinson

Novelists Leora Skolkin-Smith and Roxana Robinson (right)
run into each other at the 2006 GalleyCat holiday party
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganRoger Taize

Photo credit: Michael König, December 30, 1991
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Photo by Hayward Wilkerson
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quentin Schultze

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.)
Charles Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Christopher R. Seitz

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.)
Dr Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ronald J. Sider

Photo from Eastern University
Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
SMITHSONIAN

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
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
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Matthew Sturgis

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress
Charles H Talbert

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.)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Leora Tanenbaum

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Marlo Thomas

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

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
Maren C. Tirabassi

Book Expo America 2007, photo by Lampbane
Miriam Toews

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
P. L. Travers

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

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Kurt Vonnegut

Amanda Eyre Ward

amandaward.com
William Warfield

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 18, 1951 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-114451)
John Wesley

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

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

Elena Seibert
K.D. Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
William H. Willimon

Lauren F. Winner

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.)
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Nicholas Wolterstorff

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Charles Wright

eralon
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
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