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Chris Abani

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Douglas Carlton Abrams

Susan Satcher
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Dean Acheson

Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
D Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Theodor Adorno

Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Aleksandr Afanasev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
James Agee

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Edward Albee

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)
Sherman Alexie

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffery Renard Allen

denton@speakeasy.net
Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Jonathan Ames

Photographed by Travis Roozée
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Maxwell Anderson

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

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

HarperCollins
Ivo Andric

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Anne Applebaum

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
John Archer

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Reinaldo Arenas

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Michael Arlen

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)
Sarah Armstrong

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Arrian

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

wikimedia commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
David Auburn

Columbia University
Jean M. Auel

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ellis Avery

Trezza Azzopardi

Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
C.P.E. Bach

Chris Bachelder

Photo by Jenn Habel
Sir Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Simon Baker

Jordi Gasull
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Jesse Ball

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Faith Bandler

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Henri Barbusse

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
John Barth

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Frederic Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat. Wikimedia Commons.
Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Charles Baxter

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Bede

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Brendan Behan

Michael J. Behe

Courtesy of Michael Behe.
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Peter Behrens

Photo by Jay Sullivan
Edward Bellamy

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

Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Arnold Bennett

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

Eye on Books
A. Scott Berg

Thomas Berger

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Suzanne Berne

Thomas Bernhard

Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Carmel Bird

Samantha Everton
Herbert Bix

Columbia University
Malorie Blackman

R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Heinrich Boll

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

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Robert Bolt

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

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Mark Bowden

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Bracewell

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard Brautigan

Bertolt Brecht

Andre Breton

David Brin

By R. Feist
Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Hermann Broch

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Charles Brockden Brown

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

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jacob Burkhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Kenneth Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Julius Caesar

public domain
Tim Cahill

James M. Cain

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)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Truman Capote

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
John Le Carre

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Paul Carter

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Bartolome De Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Brian Castro

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

John Cheever

A.P. Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
C.J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G.K. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Giorgio de Chirico

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Nov. 5.
Susan Choi

Sigrid Estrada
Frederic Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Sir Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Marcus Clarke

Wikimedia
Susanna Clarke

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jean Cocteau

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

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Eoin Colfer

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

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Charles W. Colson

Dan Davis Photography
William Congreve

Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Coover

Nicolaus Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
John Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell

Peter Corris

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
Jim Crace

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Yasmin Crowther

Chris Crutcher

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
Nilo Cruz

Jennifer Reiley
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Salvador Dali

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

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Richard Henry Dana

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Eleanor Dark

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Marcia Davenport

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

Lydia Davis

Mike Davis

Richard Dawkins

Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Guy Debord

John W. De Forest

Ted Dekker

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Carl Dennis

Columbia University
Jeremiah A. Denton

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

G. V. Desani

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Sarah Dessen

sarahdessen.com
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E. L. Doctorow

Heimito Von Doderer

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Stephen R. Donaldson

J.P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

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

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

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

Columbia University
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
John Dryden

John Dufresne

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Alexandre Dumas

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Gerald Durrell

Mona Van Duyn

Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Columbia University
Kim Edwards

Ron Edwards

Photo courtesy of Bill Corrie, from the Indie RPG Awards website.
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Alice Thomas Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Claudia Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Marina Endicott

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Desiderius Erasmus

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Peter Esterhazy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Frantz Fanon

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
James T Farrell

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Richard P Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Janet 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)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
Cecil Scott Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Miles Franklin

Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Sir James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Saul Friedlander

Saul Friedlander
Natasha Friend

Photo by Tom Bloom, © 2007
Max Frisch

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

Allen and Unwin
David Fulmer

Lance Lipman
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Benito Pérez Galdós

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
M. K. Gandhi

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

Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Alex Garland

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
David Gates

John Gay

David Gemmell

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
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

Andre Gide

1893
Elizabeth Gilbert

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
George Gissing

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

Photo by Lisa Kohler
Louise Gluck

C.S. Godshalk

John Madere
William Godwin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
N.V. Gogol

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
I.A. Goncharov

Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Nadine Gordimer

Maksim Gorky

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jeff Greenwald

Photo of Jeff Greenwald, on location. Photo copyright: www.seacology.org
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

Romesh Gunesekera

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Marion Halligan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Andy Hamilton

Andy Davison
Edith Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Hass

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
J.M. Hayes

Eliza Haywood

Shirley Hazzard

Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoë Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Lillian Hellman

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

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Aleksandar Hemon

Amy Hempel

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.
Xavier Herbert

Darwin 1938, State Library of NSW.
Manu Herbstein

James Leo Herlihy

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

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

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

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
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Chester Himes

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Paul Hindemith

Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Adolf Hitler

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Josef Hofmann

Credit: copyrighted by B.J. Falk, 1898
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Douglas R Hofstadter

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Anthony Holden

Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Homer

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Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Marya Hornbacher

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Jerry Bauer
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Allen and Unwin Media Centre
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WTCA
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Zora Neale Hurston

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Christoph Isherwood

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Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
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Edward P. Jones

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Marion Ettlinger
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Carl Gustav Jung

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MacKinlay Kantor

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Mary Karr

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Mary Margaret Kaye

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
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Donald Keene

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Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Cathy Kelly

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Jack Kerouac

Marijane Meaker

Marijane Meaker
Ken Kesey

John Kessel

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
John Maynard Keynes

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Sigrid Estrada
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Henry A. Kissinger

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Chuck Klosterman

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Pinn Hans
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ushmm.org
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Jon Krakauer

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Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Karl Kraus

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
John of Kronstadt

Icon of St. John of Kronstadt (far right), St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Norwich, Connecticut. Photo by Basil Fritts / Flickr.
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Roseanne Olson
Comte De Lautreamont

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Halldor Laxness

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Stanislaw Lem

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

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Nikolai S. Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris May Lessing

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Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Tracy Letts

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Daniel J. Levitin

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
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M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

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Penelope Lively

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Bret Lott

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David W. Mack, Exhibit Hall, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
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Gustav Mahler

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
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Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

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Columbia University
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Yann Martel

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Lee Martin

Russell Martin

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Karl Marx

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Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gillian Mears

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

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Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
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Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
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Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Rick Moody

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Terry Moore

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
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Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Jan Morris

Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

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William Morris

From Wikipedia
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Kate Morton

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Walter Mosley

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Lisel Mueller

Columbia University
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Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

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Alice Munro

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V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
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Natsume Soseki

Jawaharlal Nehru

Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Of Gerasa Nicomachus

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
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Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
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Charles Nordhoff

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Amelie Nothomb

Robert Nozick

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

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Baroness Orczy Emmuska

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George Orwell

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Malika Oufkir

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Elaine Pagels

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Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Francis Jr. Parkman

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Suzan-Lori Parks

Columbia University
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Blaise Pascal

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National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

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From Wikimedia Commons
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James Patterson

Randy Pausch

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Octavio Paz

David Peace

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Nancy Pearl

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Jonathan Olson
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Plato

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Katherine Anne Porter

Laurens Van der Post

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Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

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Richard Powers

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Tim Powers

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Terry Pratchett

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Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Daniel Quinn

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Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

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Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques André Joseph Aved, 1728. From
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Julian Rathbone

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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John Rawls

Piers Paul Read

Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
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Perian Flaherty
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Matthew Reilly

Marc Reisner

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Conrad Richter

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Jerry Bauer.
Tom Robbins

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Edmond Rostand

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Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Arthur Rubinstein

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The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

James Salter

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Mark Salzman

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
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George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Robert 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)
Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Schiller

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Bernhard Schlink

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Eric Schlosser

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Philip Schultz

Robert Schumann

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David Kersey
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
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Tait Chirenje
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Anna Seghers

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Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Will Self

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Dinkley
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Danzy Senna

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Tom Stoppard

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