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Agee James

Allan Ahlberg

Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia
Gene Ambaum

Photo provided by Gene Ambaum
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France

Bill Barnes

Photo provided by Bill Barnes
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein

Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bill and Jon Jefferson Bass

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Clyde Bolton

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Erskine Caldwell

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

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

Jim Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Benvenuto Cellini

Ram Charan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Carmen Agra Deedy

Library of Congress
Greg Dening

Courtesy of Greg Dening.

Tomie dePaola

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Alexandre Dumas père

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958

C. S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
George MacDonald Fraser

Ina May Gaskin

Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry, http://www.nambassa.com/ (Wikipedia)
Charles Ghigna


William Gibson

johann wolfgang von goethe

Wikipédia France
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway in her studio, 1895
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
The 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
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Henry Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Robin Hansen

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Ricky Jay

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Michael Kammen


Dick King-Smith

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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

Source: "Literary hearthstones of Dixie,"
by La Salle Corbell Pickett (Philadelphia, 1912)
(Project Gutenberg)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Gypsy Rose Lee

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Lydon

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
A. T. Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Dale Maharidge

Photo by Emily Bazar
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James Marshall

Rafe Martin

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
A. A. Milne

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


Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Laura Joffe Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Emmuska Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Charles Panati

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nathaniel Philbrick

Mary Pipher

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia

Patricia Polacco

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/polacco_3.jpg
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Elvis Presley

Elvis Presely (1935-1977)
1957 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ6-2067)
Leontyne Price

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 19, 1953 "Porgy and Bess" (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-94217)
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Howard Pyle

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

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

photographer unknown
Phyllis Rose

J. K. Rowling

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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


Nevil Shute

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Joshua Slocum

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71036)
Sophocles


Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Editors Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
John Kennedy Toole

Frances Trollope

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Kurt Vonnegut

Mika Waltari

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.

David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
E. B. White

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

Elena Seibert
Edward D. Wood

Marilyn Yalom

Reid Yalom
Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

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