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Tony Abbott

Courtesy of the author
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
James Agee

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Lloyd Alexander

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Julia Alvarez

M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Natalie Babbit

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
T. A. Barron

Dave Barry

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

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

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Esby
Corrie ten Boom

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.)
Ben Bova

T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

E. R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
David Brin

By R. Feist
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Anthony Burgess

Jim Butcher

Betsy Byars

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)
Orson Scott Card

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Ben Carson

Alden R. Carter

Mary Casanova

Courtesy of Mary Casanova
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arthur C. Clarke

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

David Clement-Davies

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Marianne Curley

Jamie Lee Curtis

41st Annual Emmy Awards, photo by Alan Light
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)
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Carol Anne Davis

carolannedavis.wanadoo.co.uk
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Frank Deford

Bridgeport Public Library
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Sharon M. Draper

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Bob Dylan

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Ellison

Sylvia Louise Engdahl

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Marc D. Feldman, M.D.

Bogdan Dimitriu, 2007
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

Photo by Christy Williams
Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Pat Frank

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

John Lydecker

Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alex Garland

Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Christopher Golden

William Golding

Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Steven Gould

Science Fiction Author Steven Gould (self-portrait, iCam)
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Ursula K Le Guin

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDavid Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Tom Hallman

Columbia University
James Halperin

ha.com
Robert Harris

Rosemary Harris

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/7/08, Scottsdale, AZ
Pete Hautman

Photo by Linda Poverman
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Shamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
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.
Echo Heron

Author photo courtesy of echoheron.com.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Billie Holiday

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

G. M. Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Monica Hughes

Victor Hugo

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 BooksPeter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Ji-li Jiang

Angela Johnson

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

kira-kira.us
Peg Kehret

Vicki Taylor
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Alexandra Kitty

Photo by Photo by Villiam Hrubovcak
Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Joe Klein

Janusz Korczak

US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie (ca. 1930)
Jerzy Kosinski

Alex Kotlowitz

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Ron Kovic

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1990.
Elizabeth Laird

Stephen R. Lawhead

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
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Primo Levi

Sonia Levitin

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

By Leslie Howle
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Linda Lowery

Linda in her San Miguel de Allende garden
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Adeline Yen Mah

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Wendy Mass

Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullen

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
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Emma Mclaughlin

Kathryn Seidick

Kasey Michaels website
Chris Mooney

Clay Morgan

Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Farley Mowat

Walter Dean Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Garth Nix

William A. Nolen

Sterling North

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

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

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

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Scott O'Dell

Stewart O'Nan

George Orwell

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

Alexei Panshin
James Patterson

Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Richard Peck

Dave Pelzer

Tamora Pierce

Philip C. Plait

ensceptico
Sylvia Plath

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Chaim Potok

Jerry Pournelle

Richard Price

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

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas Pynchon

John Crowe Ransom

Bowen School Yearbook: 1903 Senior Class
Judith L. Rapoport

National Institutes of Health
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Christopher Reeve

Photo taken by Walt Grogan
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

Dan Savage

Rafik Schami

Photo by Rudolf Bauer / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Will Shetterly

by Emma Bull
Nevil Shute

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

Columbia University
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Betty Smith

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

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Elizabeth George Speare

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
John Steinbeck

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

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

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Joni Eareckson Tada

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Paul Theroux

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

James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Dalton Trumbo

Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Kurt Vonnegut

Jill Paton Walsh

Evangeline Walton

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
Jo Walton

James Warhola

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Andy Warhol

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienNancy Werlin

Photo by Meghan Moore
William Wharton

E. B. White

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

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Kate Wilhelm

Tennessee Williams

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

Robert De Maio
Laurel Winter

Courtesy of Laurel Winter
Paul Witcover

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tom Wolfe

Jacqueline Woodson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Laurence Yep

Jane Yolen

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Benjamin Zephaniah

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Paul Zindel

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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