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Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Saint Augustine

Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Basho Matsuo

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Ben Bova

Marion Zimmer (editor) Bradley

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Pearl S. Buck

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

Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Robert Byrne

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Don Campbell

Photo courtesy of Hay House
Rufus C. Camphausen

www.polikala.gr/rufus/
Andrew Carroll

Author Andrew Carroll (right) chats with Navy Petty Officer 2nd class David Garner. Photo by Rudi Williams
(defenselink.mil)
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
L. Maria Child

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Elze Hamilton
Allan Cole

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Department of the Army

defenselink.mil
Jared M. Diamond

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Editors of the Reader's Digest; Various Authors

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Pierre Dubois

Photo by user Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons
David Anthony Durham

Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Paul Di Filippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Patricia Finney

Cameracraft
Eric Flint

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Esther Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Margaret Fuller

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

William Gibson

William Golding

William Goldman

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

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.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Laurell K. Hamilton

Harry Harrison, Comp.

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Hearn; Lafcadio

Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Daniel A. Helminiak

Herodotus

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

Photo by Gabriel Edson
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nalo Hopkinson

Brian Jacques

Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Terry Jones

Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
L. E. Modesitt Jr.

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Jon Katz

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

Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Choderlos (translated by Richard Aldington) de Laclos

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

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Langenscheidt Staff

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Aldo Leopold

Mikhail Lermontov

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

Courtesy of the author
Denise Linn

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Noah Lukeman

George MacDonald

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Bill Maher

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Marshall

Paul J. McAuley

McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
John Milton

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Richard K. Morgan

Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Maureen Murdock

Maureen Murdock
Ted Naifeh

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2007
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Milorad Pavic

Iain Pears

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

Henry Petroski

Mary Pipher

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Sylvia Plath

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Sheri Reynolds

sherireynolds.com
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Kathryn L. Robyn

Dick Wieand
M. J. Rose

Photo by Michael Bergman
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Fred Saberhagen

J. D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nevil Shute

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

(Library of Congress Van Vechten Photographs LOT 12735, no. 1039)
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Oliver Spaulding

Charlene Spretnak

Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Frank Stockton

See below.
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Tony Thorne

Time Life Ed

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Lillian Too

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
John Updike

Martha Updike
Serena Valentino

photograph courtesy of Serena Valentino
Various

Jhonen Vasquez (Author)

SLG signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Voltaire

Lawrence Watt-Evans

by Julie Evans, copyright 2006, all rights
reserved, used by permission.
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Liz Williams

(c) Kate Eshelby, 2007, courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Jack Williamson

Tad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Tsao Hsueh-Chin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Jane Yolen

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