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Douglas Adams

Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa M. Alcott

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
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)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Rowan Atkinson

Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Hürth, Germany
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Joan Baez

Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug. 1963
Credit: US Information Agency
Melissa Bank

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock

Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard

Bill Barnes

Photo provided by Bill Barnes
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Hilaire Belloc

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

Thomas Phillips

Cat Bordhi

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

Laurent De Brunhoff

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

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia

Sarah Caudwell

John Burlinson
H.R.H The Prince of Wales

White House Photo by Paul Morse (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)

Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Babette Cole

Colette

from Wikipedia

Kate Constable

Noel Coward

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

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

Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons

Tomie Depaola

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
George Eliot

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

Marianne Faithfull

Just_guy, 2007
Dorothy Canfield

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R Foster

James George Frazer

Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Christopher Fry

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

Neil Gaiman

John Gielgud

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
W.S. Gilbert

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

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Catherine the Great

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
Cathy Marie Hake

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.)
Collins Celtic Staff

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Bret Harte

Peter Hart

Seamus Heaney

Dubose Heyward

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Brian Jacques

P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
James Joyce

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

RJ Shaughnessy
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
John Keats

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Jack Kerouac

Rudyard Kipling

Michelle Knudsen

Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Stephen Leacock

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

wikimedia commons
C.S. Lewis

Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
John Lydon

Hugh Maclennan

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

University of Windsor
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Margaret Maron

Don Marquis

Ngaio Marsh

John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Daphne Du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Anne McCaffrey

Geraldine Mccaughrean

Sharyn McCrumb

John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Rand McNally and Company

Edna St Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
A.A. Milne

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

wikipedia
Paul Muldoon

Pablo Neruda

Beverley Nichols

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

Philip Norman

Jessica Norman
Edna O'Brien

Tomas O'Crohan

Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
Maurice O'Sullivan

Dorothy Parker

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Iain Pears

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Marco Polo

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
J. K. Rowling

SARK

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Walter Scott

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

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
Margery Sharp

Nevil Shute

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cornelia Otis Skinner

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

dalasie, August 10, 2005
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Elizabeth George Speare

Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
John Millington Synge

From Wikipedia
Bryan Talbot

Source: Bryan Talbot, 2006

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Pete Townshend

Ian MacIsaac, March 9th, 2007
P. L. Travers

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

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2006
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Edgar Wallace

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)
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

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

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tennessee Williams

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

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Robert Mcliam Wilson

Courtesy of Random House UK
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

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