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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas. Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
James Agee

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albe

Sherman Alexie

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Edmondo de Amicis

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und
praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Ivo Andric

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Reinaldo Arenas

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Rilla Askew

With permission of author.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Steve Augarde

Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
David P. Barash

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Matt Beam

Samuel Beckett

Andrei Biely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Alexandr Blok

Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Dennis Bock

Derek Shapton
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Jorge Luis Borges

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Catherine Bush

A S BYATT

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Karel Capek

Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
John LeCarre

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Lee Child

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Esby
Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Robert Crais

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
Roméo Dallaire

Joshua Sherurcij
Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
E.L. DOCTOROW

Anthony Doerr

J.P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
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)
T S Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Robert Ferrigno

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
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

Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

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

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Robert Frost

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos. Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Andre Gide

1893
Gail Giles

gailgiles.com
René Girard

Vicq
C.S. Godshalk

John Madere
Nikolai Gogol

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

Oliver Goldsmth; Illustrator Margaret Weth

From Wikimedia Commons
David Goodis

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Jacob Grimm

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

Bryan Bedell
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rawi Hage

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Frank Harris

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
S. I Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Seamus Heaney

Christoph Hein

Photo by Hubert Link. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-051)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Christopher Hitchens

E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Maureen Howard

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
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
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyTahar Ben Jelloun

Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
WAYNE JOHNSTON

Jerry Bauer
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Kazantzakis

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

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

M. E. Kerr

Marijane Meaker
Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Heinrich von Kleist

Ivan Klima

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dezso Kosztolanyi

Bust of Dezso Kosztolanyi. Photo by user Mathae / Wikimedia Commons.
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
DAVID LODGE

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Ludwig Emil

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Arnost Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.

Alistair Macleod

University of Windsor
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Antonine Maillet

(c) Harry Palmer, National Archives of Canada: PA-182393
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
John P. Marquand

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

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Bobbie Ann Mason

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patrick Mcgrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Arthur Miller

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

MDCarchives
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

Margaret Mitchell

J. R. Moehringer

photo by Becky Rech
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
David Morrell

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Eduard Morike

Wikimedia Commons
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
SUSAN MUSGRAVE

Bruce Stotsebury
Robert Musil

Walter Dean Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Irene Nemirovsky

Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna Obrien

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Stewart O'Nan

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Milorad Pavic

David Peace

Charles Glover
George P. Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Thomas Perry

Marisha Pessl

Tom Piazza

John Burlinson, 8/24/08
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Neal Pollack

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Gregory Rabassa

2006 National Medal of Arts recipient and literary translator Gregory Rabassa with President and Mrs. Laura Bush
White House Photo by Paul Morse
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Margaret Reynolds

www.chrismsaunders.com
I. A. Richards

Rainer Maria Rilke

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRoxana Robinson

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

Arundhati Roy


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel ( Judge Parry Cervantes, Retold by) de

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


J.D. Salinger

James Sallis

John Sandford

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)
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMark Schorer

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Irwin Shaw

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

Wikipedia Image
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
Georges Simenon

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

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

Josef Skvorecky

public domain
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Zadie Smith

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Oliver Stone

1987 photo (credit: Wikipedia user Towpilot)
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
DAVID STOREY

Jeremy Keith
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
J.A. Symonds

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, via glbtq.com
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
NEWTON THORNBURG

Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
Miriam Toews

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Olga Tokarczuk

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, 2004, Cracow, Poland
J.R.R. Tolkien

Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ivan Sergejevič Turgenev

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

Samuel Clemens

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

M.G. Vassanji

Denise Grant
Vendela Vida

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Eudora Welty

Jan Werich

Jan Werich on left
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
William Wharton

E B White

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

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

Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Ting-Xing Ye

William Bell
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
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