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Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Theodor W. Adorno

Arthur Agatston

Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Marsha Diane Arnold

Anne Askew

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

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Mikhail Bakhtin

Melissa Bank

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Cicely Mary Barker

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Djuna Barnes

public domain
J.M. Barrie

Steve Barron

Martyna Borkowski
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Roland Barthes

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Michael Bay

US Air Force
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Francis Beaumont

Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Walter Benjamin

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Wendy Bishop

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Ancius Boethius

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Danny Boyle

www.chrismsaunders.com
Bertolt Brecht

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)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Laurent De Brunhoff

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Anthony Burgess

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Jim Butcher

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Betsy Byars

Ernest Callenbach

James Cameron

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Luis Vaz de Camoes

Wikimedia Commons
Albert Camus

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

Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Count Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Margaret Cavendish

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

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

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Carl von Clausewitz

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jean Cocteau

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

Moosewood, Inc.
Christopher Columbus

Columbus, After a Portrait by Herrer ~ From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Cosgrove

Noel Coward

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

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Jorge Cruise

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Clive Cussler

Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Robertson Davies

Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Sorita d'Este

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Walt Disney

John Donne

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

Flickr user tostie14 (San Diego ComicCon, 2006). Cropped.
Ariel Dorfman

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

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

Columbia University
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Ellis

Wikipedia (courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute)
John R. Erickson

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Courtesy of Anne Fausto-Sterling
Leslie Feinberg

John Fletcher

Michel Foucault

Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
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
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Richard Le Gallienne

Photo copyrighted 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-104657)
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Al Gore

Wikipedia
John Gower

Peter Greenaway

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher
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

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Christopher Hampton

David Chadderton
Curtis Hanson

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Karen Harper

Jeffrey A. Rycus
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Anne Hebert

Harry Palmer (1986)
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)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anna Brownell Jameson

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
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)
Sebastian Junger

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

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.
Judith Kelman

Philip Kerr

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Gordon Korman

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

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Madame de Lafayette

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Arthur Laurents

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

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

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.)
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Paul Levinson

photo by Emon Hassan
Doug Limon

Photo by David Shankbone, April 23, 2008
Guillaume de Lorris

Niccolò Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Antonine Maillet

(c) Harry Palmer, National Archives of Canada: PA-182393
John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Philip Massinger

Engraving by J.W. Paradise: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-85331)
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Phil McGraw

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Margot Mifflin

Jorge Madrigal
Kate Millett

A. A. Milne

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

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Susanna Moodie

Library and Archives Canada
Victoria Moran

Photo by Peter Dressel
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill Myers

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.)
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Daniel Nester

denton@speakeasy.net
Mike Nichols

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

Gustav Schultze
Julian of Norwich

Tillie Olsen

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
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)
Ovid

Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Charles Panati

Ambroise Pare

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Alan Parker

www.chrismsaunders.com
Laura Parker

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Luigi Pirandello

Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
PLUTARCH

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Rachel Pollack

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Annie Proulx

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

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
François Rabelais

Sam Raimi

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Jacques Ranciere

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Kathy Reichs

Rob Reiner

Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004
Yasmina Reza

Brigitte Enguerand
A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
Cheryl Richardson

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Gerhard Richter

Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer, 2005, Düsseldorf, Germany
Jonathan Riley-Smith

John Martin Robinson

Photo by Philip Allfrey June 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Norman Rockwell

Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
J. K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lawrence Schoen

photo by N.E. Lilly/GreenTentacles
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Peter Segal

Dr. (Giesel Seuss, Theodore)

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
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Michael Shapiro

irina slutsky
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

from Wikipedia
Alan Sinfield

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Sarah Smith

(c)Sherry Briggs
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Edmund Spenser

Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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

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

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Whitley Strieber

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Time Life Books

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

Catherine Parr Traill

Catherine Parr Traill. Photograph from National Archives of Canada. C-067337
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Voltaire

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Max Weber

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)
John Edward Williams

William Carlos Williams

Lisa Wingate

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.)
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Robert Wise

Photo by Alan Light, 1990 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
Tom Wolfe

Naomi Wolf

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Marilyn Yalom

Reid Yalom
William Butler Yeats

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

Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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