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PETER ABRAHAMS

(c) Dan Cutrona
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
PETER ACKROYD

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Warren Adler

Aiskhylos

SAMUEL JOSEF AGNON

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Risto Ahti

Photo by Irmeli Jung
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Boris Akunin

HENRI ALAIN-FOURNIER

Wikipédia France
Louisa M. Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Eric Alterman

Karin Alvtegen

Micke Lundström
Jorge Amado

Ingvar Ambjörnsen

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10, 2007
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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

Gedenktafel für Stefan Andres am Niederprümer Hof in Schweich. Photo by user Schweich / Wikimedia Commons.
Leonid Andrejev

wikimedia commons
IVO ANDRIC

Anja Angel

Anneli Salo
Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
LUCIUS APULEIUS

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas

Pirkko Arhippa

Anneli Salo
Aristoteles.,

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

Photo from Nick Arnold
Antonin Artaud

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Isaac Babel

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

Mihail Bahtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
HONORE DE BALZAC

Wikipédia France
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Carl Barks

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Linda Barnes

Photo by Lynn Wayne
Stephanie Barron

Max Barry

© dejahthoris : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Max_Barry_1.JPG
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
George Baxt

GREG BEAR

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Lauren Belfer

Carl Michael Bellman

Source: Svenska Familj-Journalen (1864-1887)
Saul Bellow

Andrei Belyi

Portrait by Leon Bakst
RUTH BENEDICT

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Walter Benjamin

ARNOLD BENNETT

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

Anneli Salo
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Henri Bergson

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Björnstjerne Björnson

1923
Nicholas Blake

John Burlinson
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Elleke Boehmer

Danielle Battigelli
Waldemar Bonsels

Stephen Booth

Wolfgang Borchert

Deutsch Post AG and Rosemarie Clausen / Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Luis Borges

Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Thomas Brezina

Wikimedia Commons
Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Hermann Broch

Anne Bronte

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Pearl S. Buck

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

Mihail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Alafair Burke

Lesa Holstine, 7/21/07
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
MICHEL BUTOR

Lord George Gordon Byron

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
Elias Canetti

Minna Canth

KAREL CAPEK

Truman Capote

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Eric Carle

Bo Carpelan

Teemu Rajala
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
WILLA CATHER

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany
Charles Chaplin

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

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
ANTON TSEHOV

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. Chesterton

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

Lars Saabye Christensen

Source: Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers' website
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)
Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
J. M. Coetzee

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Robert Crawford

Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Didier Daeninckx

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)
Anna Dale

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Salvador Dali

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Marie Darrieussecq

John Foley
Robertson Davies

OSAMU DAZAI

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Don DeLillo

Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Walt Disney

Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Joanne Dobson

E. L. Doctorow

J. P. DONLEAVY

F. M. DOSTOJEVSKI

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
THEODORE DREISER

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Unni Drougge

Rotsee
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Sarah Dunant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Gerald Durrell

Mignon Good Eberhart

Umberto Eco

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

ushmm.org
JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Sergei Eisenstein

GEORGE ELIOT

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

EDWARD S. ELLIS

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Markku Envall

Soppakanuuna
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Linda Fairstein

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Philip José Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
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

Hugh Fleetwood

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
FORD MADOX FORD

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C. S. FORESTER

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

from author's home page -- no credit listed
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Egon Friedell

Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Inger Frimansson

Foto Dag Sundberg
MAX FRISCH

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
FROBENIUS(KOK.).,

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Angel Ganivet

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Katy Gardner

Jean Genet

Doris Gercke

Photo by annchristin / Flickr.
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

ALLEN GINSBERG

Ludwig Urning
Morris Gleitzman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Glen David Gold

William Golding

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E. H. GOMBRICH

The Warburg Institute
I. A. Gontsarov

David Goodis

Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Nadine Gordimer

Maksim Gorki

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

Courtesy of Allison & Busby
JUAN GOYTISOLO

Peter Groth
SUE GRAFTON

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
ROBERT GRAVES

The William Graves Collection
Paul Gravett

Photo by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Anna K. Green

c1870-90, Library of Congress
Graham Greene

Martha Grimes

HANS J. C. VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Jacob Grimm

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

Tom Corcoran
George Grossmith

public domain image
Ursula K. Le Guin

Lars Gustafsson

Suz
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. RIDER HAGGARD

Wikipedia
Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
THOMAS HARDY

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Robert Harris

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
GERHART HAUPTMANN

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
JOHN HAWKES

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
ANNE HEBERT

Harry Palmer (1986)
A. F. Th. van der Heijden

CHRISTOPH HEIN

Photo by Hubert Link. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-051)
Jarl Hellemann

Soppakanuuna
JOSEPH HELLER

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
ROBERT HICHENS

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

Anneli Salo
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Eric Hill

Tony Hillerman

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
MAREK HLASKO

photographed by Robert Sadowski
Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

Matti Järvinen.
RUSSELL HOBAN

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Katharine Holabird

Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Anne Holt

Nick Hornby

Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Kari Hotakainen

Anneli Salo
BOHUMIL HRABAL

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Arianna Stassinopoulos

VICTOR HUGO

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Eva Ibbotson

Henrik Ibsen

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

Lennart Guldbrandsson
EUGENE IONESCO

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Charles Jackson

Carl Van Vechten
J. P. JACOBSEN

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Anders Jacobsson

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJ.A. Jance

Anna Jansson

Jan Ainali
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

P. C. Jersild

Photo: Jan Ainali
Iris Johansen

UWE JOHNSON

Uwe Johnson (center). (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P057015)
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
JAMES JOYCE

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

from Suomen historia by K. O. Lindeqvist (d. 1927)
Juba

Soppakanuuna
C. G. Jung

Franz Kafka

THEODOR KALLIFATIDES

Anneli Salo
Stuart Kaminsky

Yoram Kaniuk

Photo by user Howcheng / Wikimedia Commons
YASUNARI KAWABATA

Wikimedia Commons
Niko Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
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.
GOTTFRIED KELLER

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Daniil Harms

Omar Khaijam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Inkeri Kilpinen

Soppakanuuna
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
MARTIN LUTHER KING

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
RUDYARD KIPLING

Aleksis Kivi

wikimedia commons - Earliest known image of Aleksis Kivi. Drawn in 1873 almost certainly by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905).
Arto Kivimäki

Anneli Salo
Annette Curtis Klause

HEINRICH VON KLEIST

Aleksandra Kollontai

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)
Dean R. Koontz

Riku Korhonen

Soppakanuuna
JERZY KOSINSKI

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Leena Krohn

Anneli Salo
Milan Kundera

Kirsi Kunnas

Soppakanuuna
Mauri Kunnas

Anneli Salo
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Heli Laaksonen

Soppakanuuna
Choderlos de Laclos

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

PÄR LAGERKVIST

Selma Lagerlöf

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

Photo © Elena Seibert
GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA

Wikimedia Commons
Leena Lander

Soppakanuuna
Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
HALLDOR KILJAN LAXNESS

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Fernand Léger

Carl Van Vechten
Leena Lehtolainen

Leena Lehtolainen, Finnish writer, at the Helsinki Book Fair in 2005. Photographer Matti Järvinen.
EINO LEINO

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Donna Leon

MIHAIL LERMONTOV

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
ALAIN-RENE LE SAGE

NIKOLAI LESKOV

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
JULIUS LESTER

Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Kari Levola

Soppakanuuna
C. S. Lewis

SINCLAIR LEWIS

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

Teemu Rajala
Rosa Liksom

Unni Lindell

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 6, 2007
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
Sven Lindqvist

Johannes Linnankoski

from Suomen historia by K. O. Lindeqvist (d. 1927)
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
JACK LONDON

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Jeff Long

ANITA LOOS

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Emil Ludwig

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Katie MacAlister

Ross Macdonald

Colin MacInnes

IMRE MADACH

Photo by user Pataki Márta / Hungarian Wikipedia.
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
ANDRE MALRAUX

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Liza Marklund

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Ngaio Marsh

JOHN MASEFIELD

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Sujata Massey

Jim Burger
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

ANDRE MAUROIS

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

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
CARSON MCCULLERS

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
JOHN MCGAHERN

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Menandros

Roman copy of the Imperial era
after a Greek original (ca. 343–291 BC),
Museo Chiaramonti
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
George Meredith

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

Bust of Kálmán Mikszáth, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Margaret Millar

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)
A. A. Milne

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Margaret Mitchell

Hannu Mäkelä

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Quim Monzo

Quim Monzó a la Setmana del Llibre en català 2003
Moore Suzannah

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kate Mosse

Herta Müller

Marcia Muller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
HENRI MURGER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Murger_in_1854.jpg
ROBERT MUSIL

Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
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Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
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Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
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Richard Rosenthal
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