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Anon

D'Arcy Norman
Arthur Agatston

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Svetlana Alliluyeva

Wikipedia
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Sir Joseph Banks

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

Seamus Kearney
Cicely Mary Barker

Marjorie Barnard

Neal Barnard

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Simone de Beauvoir

Quentin Bell

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Bensusan

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Black

RailsConf Europe, 2006, by Roo Reynolds
William Blake, Selected edited and introduced by Jacob Bronowski.

Thomas Phillips
James (Pottle Boswell, Frederick A.-editor)

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
emily bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

elizabeth browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
lewis carroll

Bruce Catton

Neville W. Cayley

Circa 1936, G.M. Matthews, National Library of Australia.
Paul CÉZANNE

Self-portrait, circa 1883-1887
(Yorck Project)
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Susan. CHEEVER

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Joan Clark

Ned Pratt
Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alastair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Edward S. Curtis

Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Wikimedia Commons)
Rosie Daley

Nelson Demille

Kiran Desai

Dave DeWitt

charles dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Readers Digest Ass.

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

chitradivakaruni.com
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephanie Dowrick

stephaniedowrick.com
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
george eliot

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

Isobel English

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
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

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Miles Franklin

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJoseph Furphy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42700)
Jotein Gaardner

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Bill Gates

Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Elizabeth(Author) Gilbert

Pat Gilmour

copyright: Digiridoo Limited 2009
William Golding

Francisco Jose De Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Katherine Graham

Columbia University
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Thomas Gray

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

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

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
M Guiliano

Andrew French
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marion Halligan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Michael Harvey

David Turner
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

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)
Mariel Hemingway

credit: Raven Underwood, 2006
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
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
Henry James

Wikipedia
Catherine Jinks

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
John Keats

Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Abraham Lincoln

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Nora Lofts

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)
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
machiavelli

Hugh Maclennan

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

University of Windsor
Adeline Yen Mah

Thomas Mann

marquez gabriel garcia

Jean Marzollo

Henri Matisse

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-103699 DLC
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Photo by Judy Lawne
J. D. McClatchy

Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Gillian Mears

james michener

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

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

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Alphonse Marie Mucha

Photo by: Geo. K. Lawrence Co., Chicago. 1906.
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
John Nash

Author of photo is Elke Wetzig.
Miriam E. Nelson

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Katrina O'Brien

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

David Pogue

Marco Polo

Katharine Susannah Prichard

May Moore (d. 1931)
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barbara. Pym

Kathleen Raine

Meladina
Gordon Ramsay

herbert read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Jean Renoir

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

paloma.cl
roizen michael

RealAge.
Arundhati Roy

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Detail from "Self Portrait of the Painter and his Wife Isabella Brant under the Honeysuckle Arbor", c. 1609.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
J.D. Salinger

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Gail Sheehy

Nevil Shute

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

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Johanna Spyri

Christina Stead

John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
AMY TAN

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Taylor Elizabeth

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

James Thurber

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
leo tolstoy

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sun Tzu

Louis Untermeyer

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

Martha Updike
Iyanla Vanzant

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Milton Viorst

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Evelyn Waugh

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

John R. Ziemann
h.g. wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
John Williams

Marianne Williamson

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

Tobias Wolff

Naomi Wolf

Tiger Woods

Credit: Paddy Briggs
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Judith Wright

Ting-Xing Ye

William Bell
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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