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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Neal Asher

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stanley Baldwin Baldwin, Earl

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35233
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Nicholas Basbanes

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simon Beckett

Hilary Beckett
Bede Venerablis

Gregory Benford

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

John Berendt

Eye on Books
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Fernard Braudel

David Brin

By R. Feist
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dee Brown

Thomas Browne

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Algis J. Budrys

Shunn
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Sir Richard F Burton

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Richard E. Byrd

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-32880)
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
James Cameron

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
Andrea Camilleri

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)
Orson Scott Card

Robert Cecil

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Agatha Christie

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
William Dampier

Project Gutenberg: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Greg Dening

Courtesy of Greg Dening.
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Bruce Dickinson

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Franklin Perkins
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Thomas M Disch

Ariel Hameon
E.L. Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Stephen Donaldson

John Donne

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Gerald Durrell

Tim Ecott

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Royal Canadian Air Force

A Canadian CF-18 Hornet from the 409th Tactical Fighter Squadron launches a laser-guided bomb during one of the unit's weapon systems evaluation program scenarios.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Tim Pfeifer)
(af.mil)
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
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
John Fowles

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Alex Garland

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Philip Gibbs

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

William Golding

Rob Grant

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
A.C. Grayling

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

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

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Sven Anders Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
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.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
E.J. Hobsbawm

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

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

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Holbrook. Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
L.E. Modesitt

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Franz Kafka

Mary Karr

Mary Margaret Kaye

Elizabeth Keckley

Image from Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Thomas À Kempis

Johannes Kepler

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

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Milan Kundera

Lafferty A.

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Philip Larkin

Antoine L Lavoisier

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

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Stephen Leigh

William Wesen
Mikhail Lermontov

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

Marina Lewycka

British Library

Livy

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Federico Garcia Lorca

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ken MacLeod

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Sir 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)
Walter de la Mare

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

W.Somerset Maugham

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

Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John Meaney

Used with permission
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A Mitchener

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

Giles Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moorhead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Sir Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Ward Moore

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

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Kate Mosse

British Museum (Natural History)

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Jawaharlal Nehru

Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Harold Nicolson

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Amelie Nothomb

Edna O'Brien

Flannery O'Connor

Michael Okuda

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ovid

John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
James Patterson

Henry Petroski

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
J.C. Polkinghorne

Roy Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
J. B Priestley

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Thomas De Quincey

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
N.A.M. Rodger

Susan Rodger
James Runcie

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)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)
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J.-P. SARTRE

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Erwin Schrodinger

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bob Shaw

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention), Brighton, England, 1979. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Nigel Short

2005 Corus Chess tournament (Photo credit: steenslag, flickr user)
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Cordwainer Smith

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Gene Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
John Hanning Speke

Cigarette card (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry M. Stanley

Cigarette card (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Tacitus

Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Graham P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alfred Tennyson

Tertullian

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1159 (A size))
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ian Thomson

Maggie Hannan
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
J.R.R. Tolkien

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Rose Tremain

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Martha Updike
Peter Ustinov

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Jeff VanderMeer

John Varley

Gore Vidal

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

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

Ian Watson

www.ianwatson.info
William Wharton

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Tennessee Williams

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

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tobias Wolff

Leonard Woolley

Xenophon

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

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Richard Zimler

Suz
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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