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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Douglas Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Horatio Alger

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

Anonymous

Tommy Armour

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

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Isaac (edited by) Asimov

©Rowena
Jean Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Samuel; Beckett

Saul Bellow

Yogi Berra

Photo taken by Wikipedia user "Googie Man"
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Anthony Burgess

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erskine Caldwell

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Sarvodaya.org
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Bob Costas

President George W. Bush speaks with Bob Costas of NBC Sports during an interview Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, while attending the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. White House photo by Eric Draper
(whitehouse.gov)
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Billy Crystal

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

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)
Richard Henry Dana

Michael D'Antonio

Photograph by B.D. Colen / ADIOL
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
James Dobson

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.)
James Dodson

Stephen R. Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Barry M. Farber

Barry Farber.
William Faulkner

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

Bob Feller

navy.mil
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Eugene Field

Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
C. S. Forester

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

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Kahlil Gibran

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

William Golding

Linda Greenlaw

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Thich Nhat Hanh

Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gregory H. Hemingway

Ernest (right) and Gregory Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
James Herriot

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
James Hilton

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

Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jordon Beesley
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert E. Howard

L. Ron Hubbard

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Lee A. Iacocca

Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Stephen King

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

Edward I. Koch

White House Staff Photographer
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jack London

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

Richard Marcinko

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Johnny Miller

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Murphy

Willie Nelson

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Arnold Palmer and President Bush comparing golf grips, Presidential Medal of Freedom awards ceremony, 2004. White House photo by Paul Morse.
James Patterson

Robert E. Peary

Wikimedia Commons (Originally from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marcel Proust

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Cal Ripken

Sax Rohmer

Theodore Roosevelt

J. K. Rowling

Rudolf Rucker

Rudy Rucker
J. D. Salinger

Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis (introduced by) Singer

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

Yakov Smirnoff. Wikimedia Commons by Sam Cali (photographer)
Sophocles

John Steinbeck

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

W. Sturgeon
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
J. R. R. Tolkien

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
Jack Welch

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
H.G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. B. White

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

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

Sean Williams

Cat Sparks
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Gary Wolf

Donald A. (edited by) Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Earl Woods

K. Kassens
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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