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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Louisa May Alcott

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sarah Addison Allen

L.Allen
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
David P. Barash

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson
John Barth

Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christine Blevins

Judy Blume

Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books

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)
Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Orson Scott Card

Eric Carle

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Dan Chaon

photo by Philip Chaon
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G.K. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Esmé Raji Codell

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Rachel Cohn

Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
K. L. Cook

Photo by Deborah Ford
Trevor Corson

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Katie Crouch

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Chris Crutcher

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
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)
Sandra Dallas

Photo by Povy Kendal Atchison
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kiran Desai

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
E.L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Ralph Ellison

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
William Faulkner

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

Jamie Ford

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo

Neil Gaiman

Chris Genoa

Copyright 2001, Chris Genoa
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Elizabeth Gilbert

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Louise Gluck

William Golding

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Linda Grant

Judah Passow
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Taras Grescoe

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula K. Le Guin

Kathleen Cunningham Guler

Jennifer Haigh

photo: Asia Kepka
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Nancy Horan

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008.
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kate Jacobs

Brian Jacques

Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Haven Kimmel

photo: Greg Plachta
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Dan Koeppel

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Ellyssa Kroski


Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Margo Lanagan

Jen Lancaster

Reif Larsen

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Nam Le

Photo © 2007 Joanne Chan
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Edna Lewis

© John T. Hill
Alison Light

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
E. Lockhart

Jack London

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Lisa Lutz

Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Lee Martin

Richard Matheson


Anne McCaffrey

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Jill McCorkle

Tom Rankin
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
China Mieville

John Milton

Rohinton Mistry

Margaret Mitchell

Richard K. Morgan

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Patrick Ness

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Garth Nix

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Scott O'Dell

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Iain Pears

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Peggy Post

Emily Price Post, 1873-1960, photo c1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-62205)
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francine, Prose

Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
S.R. Ranganathan

Varghese Nijeeb P.
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Tom Robbins

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Marisa De Los Santos

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Lisa Scottoline

Library of Congress

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Maurice Sendak

Kamila Shamsie

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Michael Shermer

Ben Sherwood

Dan Simmons

Paullina Simons

Mel Cain
Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
Mark Sloan

Photo by Jean Porter
David Small

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Betty Smith

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

Wilbur Smith

Zadie Smith

Elizabeth George Speare

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Dana Spiotta

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Jerry Bauer
Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anthony Swofford

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
dylan thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Hannah Tinti

Linda Carrion
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Lara Vapnyar

(c) Sigrid Estrada
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Nina Vida

Nancy Nimmons
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Foster Wallace

Jill Paton Walsh


Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
David Sloan Wilson

Photo by user Gwern / English Wikipedia

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tom Wolfe


Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Gabrielle Zevin

Aaron Eckhart
Paul Zindel

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Stefan Zweig

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