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Ralph Abernathy

Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)
National Press Club luncheon, June 14, 1968. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Patricia Aburdene

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Jane Addams

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

Juhani Aho

From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juhani_Aho.jpg
Edward Albee

Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia
Louisa May Alcott

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

CJ Gunther
Sherman Alexie

Isabel Allende

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

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Dorothy Allison

Eric Alterman

A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Julia Alvarez

Kingsley. Amis

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Richard Mckeon, Ed. Aristotle;

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

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
William Ayers

www.plowsharesproject.org
Joe Bageant

Kenneth V. Smith
ken@kvsmith.com
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Baldrige

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Melissa Bank

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Polly (editor) Bannister

Yankee Magazine
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Dave Barry

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Jennifer Baumgardner

Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Charles. Baxter

Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Bellow Saul

Quentin Bell

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
A. Scott Berg

Ingmar Bergman

Daniel Berrigan

Credit: Kevin Ksen, 2005, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Wendell Berry

Caroline bird

Elizabeth Bishop

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

RailsConf Europe, 2006, by Roo Reynolds
Shirley Temple Black

Marlena de Blasi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Erma Bombeck

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Barbara Boxer

from Boxer's U.S. Senate website
Blanche Mccrary Boyd

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bradford Enterprises
Bradley Marion Zimmer

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Gayle Brandeis

Photo by Priscilla Iezzi
Richard Brautigan

Bertolt Brecht

Marie Brenner

John Burlinson
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Charlotte Bronte

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
BROOKHISER RICHARD

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Lyn Mikel Brown

Mark Tappan
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Martin Buber

Raymond Buckland

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA

MDCarchives
Francelia Butler

Francelia Butler, Halloween 1990, Mansfield Hollow, Conn.
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bebe Moore Campbell

Barbara DuMetz
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Ron Carlson

John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Ana Castillo

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Kim Cattrall

Paul Celan

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Irena Chalmers

The Culinary Institute of America
John Cheever

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Kim Chernin

Alan Cheuse

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Susan Choi

Sigrid Estrada
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill, Sir

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Tom Clancy

Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
J. M. Coetzee

William Sloane Coffin

Roni Cohen-Sandler

Colette

from Wikipedia
Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephanie Coontz

Robert Coover

Gena Corea

geryunant.com
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Norman Cousins

Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Jim Crace

Robert Crais

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmanda Cross

John Burlinson
American National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Rosie Daley

Angela Davis

Richard Dawkins

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don Delillo

Nelson DeMille

Carl Dennis

Columbia University
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest Editors

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Disney

E. L. Doctorow

G. William Domhoff

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
John Donne

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

Fyodor Dostoevski

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Elizabeth Drew

Library of Congress
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Stanley M Elkins

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Jean Bethke Elshtain

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Steve Erickson

Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
Sara Evans

Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Monika Fagerholm

Västgöten
Zoë. Fairbairns

Photo by Roderick Field
Linda A. Fairstein

Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Frantz Fanon

Fast. Howard

William Faulkner

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Carrie Fisher

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Laura Flanders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Richard. Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Ben Fountain

Photo by Tim Corcoran at BookPeople, Austin, Texas
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Miles Franklin

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Margaret Fuller

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

Fred Gaylor
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Nelson George

Susan George

Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikki Giovanni

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Louise Gluck

Gail Godwin

Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Joyce Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Mariana Gosnell

William Althoff
Lois Gould

Caroline Graham

Jorie Graham

Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Mike Gravel

Copyright released by the owner - Gravel 2008 Presidential campaign. www.gravel2008.us
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Linda Greenlaw

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jim Grimsley

Emory University
Doris Grumbach

Photograph by Robert Giard & Copyright@Estate of Robert Giard.
Girl Scouts of the USA

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Allan Gurganus

Roy F. Guste

Colette Guste
Marilyn Hacker

David Halberstam

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007
Cathi Hanauer

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen W.; Introduction by Sagan Hawking, Carl

from Wikipedia
N Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Shelby Hearon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Chris Hedges

Joan Hedrick, D.

Courtesy Columbia University
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Sally Helgesen

Anthony Loew
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Oscar Hijuelos

Ingrid Hill

Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Christopher Hitchens

Chí Minh H&ˆograve;

wikipedia
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nancy Horan

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

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Tanya Huff

Victor Hugo, Illustrated by With Illustrations f

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Patricia Ireland

National Organization for Women
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Molly Ivins

Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Jane Jacobs

Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Sue Ann Jaffarian

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksBill Jamison

with Cheryl Alters Jamison
photo by Mary Jablonsky
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Christopher Jencks

Barbara Johnson

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.)
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Davey Johnson

White House photo by Chris Greenberg
(cropped)
(georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov)
Diane Johnson

Lady Bird Johnson

LBJ Library Photo by Frank Wolfe, May 10, 1990, Texas Hill County
Owen McMahon Johnson

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
David Cay Johnston

c. 2007, Molly Leonard
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
June Jordan

Alvin M. [editor] Josephy Jr.

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Garson Kanin

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

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Sue Kaufman

Patrick Kavanagh

John; Trilling Keats, Lionel (ed)

Carolyn G. 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.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
N. M. Kelby

Courtesy of the author
Marjorie Kelly

Caroline Kennedy

Pete Souza
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Graham Kerr

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Jamaica Kincaid

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

Jr. King, Dr. Martin Luther

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Henry A. Kissinger

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Verlyn Klinkenborg

© 2005 Lindy Smith
Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Caroline Knapp

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Juanita Kreps

U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

Mauri Kunnas

Anneli Salo
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Gavin Lambert

Anne Lamott

Lewis H. Lapham

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Fran Lebowitz

Credit: Christopher Peterson, 2007
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

Robert Scoble
Julia Leigh

Noah Sheldon
V. I. Lenin

Aldo Leopold

Frané. Lessac

Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
FlickrDoris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Suzanne Levine

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Joseph I. Lieberman

Wikimedia Commons (Official Senate Portrait)
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Penelope Lively

Georgene Lockwood

Georgene Lockwood
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Bret Lott

Courtesy of the author
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Niccolo Machiavelli

Robert Macneil

Brenda Maddox

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Herbert Marcuse

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paule Marshall

Russell Martin

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Eugene J. McCarthy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
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
Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Carson Mccullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Jay Mcinerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Rand McNally

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Jillian Medoff

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Ellen Meloy

Mike Meloy
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
James A. Michener

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Edna St Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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)
Jean Baker Miller

Georgia Klamon Miller
John Miller

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Kate Millett

A. A. Milne

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Moliere

Wikipédia France
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Rick Moody

Henry Moore

Photo credit: Lothar Wolleh
Judith Moore

Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Elaine Morgan

Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Dick Morris

Mary McGarry Morris

Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill D. Moyers

Daniel P. Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
John Naisbitt

(cc) Michael Sauers, 2006
Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Christiane Md Northrup

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Geoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Flannery O'Connor

Kenneth P. O'Donnell

Photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Gina Ogden

Martha Steward
www.marthapix.com
Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
David Olive

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Tillie Olsen

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Ruth L. Ozeki

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Helen Waite Papashvily

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

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

Melissa Ann Pinney
PATON ALAN

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Richard North Patterson

Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
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