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Douglas Adams

Richard. (linking text by). Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Pamela Allen

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)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Auel Jean m

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Dave Barry

Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
The Beatles

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Erma Bombeck

Ben Bova

Elizabeth Boyle

Photo from author website
Jan Brett

Jane E. Brody

MDCarchives
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Marc Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Stephen Budiansky

Bryan Burrough

Eric Carle

Nancy Carlson

Courtesy of Nancy Carlson
John le Carre

John Case

Bennett Cerf

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Gary Chapman

Lincoln Child

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Esmé Raji Codell

Judy Collins

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
John H. Conway

Prof. John Horton Conway. Photo by Robert P. Matthews, 1987 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Illustrated by Robin James Cosgrove

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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)
Carmen Agra Deedy

Library of Congress
Nelson DeMille

Tomie dePaola

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
RH Disney

Tony DiTerlizzi

Julia Donaldson

Stephen Donaldson

Arthur Dorros

Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Howard M. Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
John Feinstein

Anna Fienberg

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Gaelen Foley

Courtesy of Gaelen Foley.
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Dick Francis

Jonathan Franzen

Debra Frasier

Courtesy of Debra Frasier
Charles Frazier

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Michael Garland

Linda Glaser

Photo by Julia Cheng
Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
William Goldman

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

Peter Goode
Terry GOODKIND

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Brian Greene

Alan Greenspan

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Ursula K. Le Guin

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Aidan Hartley

James Brabazon
Karen Hawkins

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
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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)
B. G. Hennessy

James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Tony Hillerman

Ron Hirschi

Courtesy of Ron Hirschi
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Thomas Hood

from "The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3" (Project Gutenberg text #16786)
Jackie Hopkins

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Greg Iles

Photographed by Ben Hillyer
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eloisa James

Amanda Stevenson Lupke
Henry James

Wikipedia
Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ken Jennings

Whistling in the Dark
Lynne Jonell

Courtesy of Lynne Jonell
Maira Kalman

Immanuel Kant

M M Kaye

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Steven Kellogg

Dharma Singh Khalsa

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Stephen King

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

Steven Kolpan

Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Rush Limbaugh

Grace Lin

Photo by Morgan Pace
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Norah Lofts

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

Brigitte Luciani

Georges Seguin
Robert Ludlum

Eric Van Lustbader

Gayle Lynds

Niccolo Machiavelli

Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
James Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
Colleen McCullough

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
Emma Mclaughlin

Cari Meister

Photo by Jennifer Robinett
Ellen Meloy

Mike Meloy
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

taken by Saturnino Miranda
J. R. Moehringer

photo by Becky Rech
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Philip D. Morehead

Wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Mosse

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Richard Milhous Nixon

Official U.S. Presidential Portrait (National Archives & Recores)
Trinka Hakes Noble

Laura Joffe Numeroff

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Will And Ma Osborne

Authors Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will Osborne read aloud to an ethusiastic crowd of young readers from her book, "American Tall Tales," Monday, April 9, 2007, during the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
(whitehouse.gov)
Robert B. Parker

James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

Iain Pears

Marcus Pfister

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
David Pogue

Mia Posada

Photo courtesy of Mia Posada.
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Oxford

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Thomas Pynchon

James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Alexandra Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Peter Robinson

Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seiberg
Geraldine Ryan-Lush

Carl Sagan

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jon Scieszka

Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
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 ArtSidney Sheldon

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

David Small

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
University of Chicago Press Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Julie Sykes

Copyright and credit is A.G MacPhee
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Mark Teague

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard H. Thaler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J. R. R. Tolkein

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Donald J. Trump

Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Jill Paton Walsh

Kevin Warwick

Robert Scoble
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Charles Wheelan

E. B. White

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

Mo Williams

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tom Wolfe

Editors of World Almanac

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

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

Kenny Braun
Dan Yaccarino

Jane Yolen

Charlotte Zolotow

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