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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Douglas Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Piers Anthony

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

George Berkeley

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Ray Bradbury

Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Buchan

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

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

Truman Capote

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

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

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)
Emma Darwin

Photo by Roderick Field
Kevin S. Decker

Dr. Kevin S. Decker
Ted Dekker

Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
E.L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

© Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Jonathan Franzen

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Goldman

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

Gunter Grass

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

Graham Greene

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet

Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Nick Hornby

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyElfriede Jelinek

James Joyce

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

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey


Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Marina Lewycka

Thomas Mann


Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

© the University of Aberdeen
Charles McCain

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson Mccullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Arthur Miller

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

Norman Johnson
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Pankaj Mishra

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Irene Nemirovsky

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Peter G. Peterson

U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Christi Phillips

DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Luigi Pirandello

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Sylvia Plath

Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

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

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Cokie Roberts

Marilynne Robinson

Arundhati Roy


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Michael Shapiro

irina slutsky
Nevil Shute

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

Zadie Smith

Susan Sontag

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Hunter S. Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Mark J. Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Gore Vidal

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

Evelyn Waugh

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

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Yevgeny Zamyatin

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