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Marc Abrahams

Douglas Adams

Lord Addison of Stallingborough

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-DIG-ggbain-23557)
Joseph Addison

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

Szymon Sokół
Gabriel Mesta

Michael P. Sauers
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
C. R. Attlee

United States Army Signal Corps
(trumanlibrary.org)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Marcus Aurelius

A. J. Ayer

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Lord Beaverbrook

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-85149)
The Venerable Bede

Tony Benn

www.chrismsaunders.com
Tim Berners-Lee

Credit: Jim Grisanzio, 1999
Aneurin Bevan

Statue of Bevan in Cardiff. Photo by Kaihsu Tai (2005).
Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
William Blackstone, Sir

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
Elleke Boehmer

Danielle Battigelli
James Boswell

Malcolm Bradbury

Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Max Brooks

Thomas Browne

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Mark Buchanan

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Gilbert Burnet

Robert Burns

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

Alexander Campbell (clergyman) at Age 65. Frontispiece from Richardson, Robert. Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, vol.1, Lippincott, 1869.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bruce Catton

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Robert Chambers

from Memoir of Robert Chambers. W.& R. Chambers, 1872. (Title page.)
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
David Crystal

Barry Cunliffe

William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

T.M. Devine

Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
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
Rael Dornfest

Joi Ito
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
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.
David Faber

Wikipedia
Niall Ferguson

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
David Ford

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.)
C. S. Forester

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

Catherine Eldridge
R. F. Foster

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Esther M. Freisner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
John Lewis Gaddis

Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
G. E. R. Gedye

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

W. S. Gilbert

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

A. C. Grayling

John Richard Green

John Guy

Author's website
Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
George Savile Halifax, Marquis of

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

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
B. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Konrad Heiden

(stuff in German that I can't understand--if you read German, can you leave me a comment with a translation of the Wikimedia page in the copyright section? thanks!)
Robert A. Heinlein

Piet Hein

Bust of Piet Hein located in Farum
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
A. P. Herbert

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.
Herodotus

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Homer

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

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksLisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Jerome K. Jerome

Hewlett Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Stuart A. Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
à Kempis Thomas

Rudyard Kipling

David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Philip Larkin

C.S. Lewis

Andrew Lih

Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
H P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ken MacLeod

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Paul J. McAuley

Sharyn McCrumb

H. L. Mencken

Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Merle Miller

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

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Giles Milton

John Milton

George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard Morgan

Jan Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGeoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Barack Obama

Public Record Office

The Kew Building, before the name-change to The National Archives. Photo by user Matt Crypto / Wikimedia Commons.
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eric Honeywood Partridge

G88keeper
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Iain Pears

Henry Petroski

William Rivers Pitt

American Who Tell the Truth Website ~ Portrait by Robert Shetterly
Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

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

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
S. R. Ranganathan

Varghese Nijeeb P.
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Raphael

Raphael (1483-1520)
Bronze bust on top of the artist's tomb
at the Pantheon in Rome, by Giuseppe de Fabris
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Thomas E. Ricks

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Matt Ruff

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
V. Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
David Scott

Astronaut David R. Scott (Photo created by NASA)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Clay Shirky

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Adam Smith

Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Arthur Smith

Judith Welch
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
C. P. Snow

Edgar Snow

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

John Burlinson
Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
Stephen Spender

J. C. Squire

James Dalrymple Stair, 1st Viscount

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

Geoffrey A. Landis
Richard Steele

Mark Steel

flickr user Loz Flowers. Credited at Wikipedia to user Loz Pycock.
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Joseph Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Leon E. Stover

Dr. Leon Stover in his library at IIT, Chicago
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Charles Stross

Viktor Suvorov

Matthew Sweet

Tom McShane
Don Tapscott

Robert Scoble
Frederick Taylor

Paul Theroux

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

Poems, 1917
Hunter S. Thompson

J.R.R. Tolkien

Saint Gregory, Bishop of Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederick Jackson Turner

Wikipedia
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Vernor Vinge

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

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

War Office

Old War Office, London. Photo by Oliver Mallich / Flickr.
Isaac Watts

Source: "The story of the hymns and tunes,"
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
Sidney Webb

George Grantham Bain Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-36741
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLiz Williams

(c) Kate Eshelby, 2007, courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
P. G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Leonard Woolley

Henry Yule, Sir

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Yule.jpg
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Robert Zubrin

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