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Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Conrad Aiken

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

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Jeffery Renard Allen

denton@speakeasy.net
Dorothy Allison

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Sherwood Anderson

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

Donald Antrim

Aristotle

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

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Isaac Babel

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Lester Bangs

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Charles Baxter

Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Samuel Beckett

James Scott Bell

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.)
Walter Benjamin

A. Scott Berg

Thomas Bernhard

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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

© Beth Kelly
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Paul BOWLES

Andre Breton

Matt Briggs

Lisa Purdy
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
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
Ron Carlson

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Lewis Carroll

Michael Chalon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

Chris Crawford

On the 2002 Leonid MAC mission. Photo courtesy of Jane Houston-Jones
e. e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Ron Dakron

Photo by Marcia Glover
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

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

Harold Lenoir Davis

Lydia Davis

Don DeLillo

Jared Diamond

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Trevor Dodge

Ivan Doig

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elena Seibert
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Dave EGGERS

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Pia Z. Ehrhardt

Malcolm P. Ehrhardt
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Maurits Cornelis Escher

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Brian Evenson

Photo by Denny Moers
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Fanny Fern

c1866, Library of Congress
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Robert Fisk

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Ben Fountain

Photo by Tim Corcoran at BookPeople, Austin, Texas
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
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
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
David Gates

Mark Gatiss

eye4images
Charles Ghigna

Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Robert Girardi

Nikolai Gogol

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Jorie Graham

Almudena Grandes

Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Lucy Grealy

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Henry Green

Michelle Green

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

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

Emory University
Allan Gurganus

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
N. Katherine Hayles

Dave Pape
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
A. M. Homes

HOUDINI HARRY

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Jane Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
David Joachim

Kurt Wilson
Charles Richard Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Eva Feder Kittay

Philippe Vermès
William Kittredge

Raymond Meeks
Jerzy Kosinski

George Lakoff

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Harper Lee

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

http://www.craiglesley.com/media.php
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
Mark Lindquist

marklindquist.net
Sven Lindqvist

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Anita Loos

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

Alison Ed Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Niccolo Machiavelli

Brenda Maddox

Richard Manning

Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Bobbie Ann Mason

Nick Mason

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2006
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
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
Frank McCourt

Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Emma Mclaughlin

Marshall McLuhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Joe Meno

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
John Milton

Rick Moody

Chris Mooney

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Thomas More

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Gina Ochsner

Photo by Sheryl H. Eldridge, Newport (Oregon) Public Library
Flannery O'Connor

Stewart O'Nan


Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Tom Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Tom Piazza

John Burlinson, 8/24/08
Pinker Steven

Donna Coveney
Salvador Plascencia

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Jacob A. Riis

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Marilynne Robinson

Theodore Roethke

Matt Ruff

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J. D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer

Christine Schutt

David Kersey
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Wallace Shawn

MDCarchives
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Jim Shepard

Barry Goldstein
David Shields

Tom Collicott
Kenneth Silverman

2003 Nancy Crampton
David Simon

Source
http://flickr.com/photos/stutefish/399607994/
Date
February 22, 2007
Author
Lori Matsumoto ("stutefish" on flickr)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Stephen Spender

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Gary Taubes

Lawrence Lederman
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Jean Toomer

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

Niall McDermind
John Updike

Martha Updike
Gerald Vizenor

Public Domain
David Wagoner

Robin Seyfried
David Foster Wallace

Andy Warhol

Alice L. Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Eudora Welty

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Colson Whitehead

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007, Brooklyn Book Festival
Walt Whitman

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson

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

Tony Rollo
Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Jane Yolen

Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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