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Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams (1936- )
Photo taken August 2006 by David Shankbone
Martha Ackmann

Author Martha Ackmann (right) speaks with former astronaut Eileen Collins and Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity representative Evett Turner at a luncheon during her visit to JSC.
(NASA)
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Captain William R. Anderson

U.S. Navy
Anonymous

Donald Antrim

Aron Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
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)
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Nancy Atherton

Kate Atkinson

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Max Barry

© dejahthoris : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Max_Barry_1.JPG
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
John Barth

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
COLIN BEAVAN

Ernest Becker

Samuel Beckett

Greg Behrman

Photographed by Stacey Lieberman
Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sidney Blumenthal

Photo by Larry D. Moore (2006) (Wikimedia Commons)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Stephen Bown

photo by Nicky Brink
T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Douglas G. Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Daniel James Brown

Photo by Sharon V. Brown
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Edwin Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Jim Butcher

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
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
John Le Carre

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
W. Hodding Carter

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Jessie Childs

Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Richard A. Clarke

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Susanna Clarke

Wesley K. Clark

US Army.
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Jonathan Coe

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Steve Coll

Center for American Progress
Edward Conlon

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Robert Coover

George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
David Crystal

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Michael D'Antonio

Photograph by B.D. Colen / ADIOL
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipédia France
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Don Delillo

Jo Dereske

Courtesy of the author
Kiran Desai

Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Michael Dobbs

E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

Columbia University
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Alexandre Dumas père

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Steve Earle

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F. Scott (edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli) Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C.S. Forester

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

Al Franken

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

Mary Jane Russell
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
Jane Gardam

Meg Gardiner

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
John A. Glusman

William Goldman

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

Robert Goolrick

Leigh Ledare
Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Olga Grushin

Allan Gurganus

Ann Hagedorn

David Halberstam

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Stephen Harrigan

Matt Lankes
Max Hastings

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
William Hogeland

Photograph by Barbara Brousal
Homer

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

Nick Hornby

Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgRobert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Scott Huler

Random House
Agnes Humbert

drawing of Agnès Humbert by Wikipedia user P0mbal
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Jerome K. Jerome

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Terry Jones

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Ken Kalfus

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Nicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Jan Karski

E. Thomas Wood
Dean King

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Ross King

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Tim Krabbe

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
Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
George Lakoff

Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Stephen R. Lawhead

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Chang-Rae Lee

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

Jane Brown
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
David Lindsay

David Liss

Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
Penelope Lively

Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganCheryl Mendelson

Eric Metaxas

Edna St Vincent Millay

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
Denise Mina

Rohinton Mistry

J.R. Moehringer

photo by Becky Rech
Rick Moody

Chris Mooney

Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
John Mortimer

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Andrew Nagorski

Irene Nemirovsky

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Jennifer Niven

Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Mark Oldman

Lynne Olson

Stanley Cloud
Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
ZZ Packer

Marion Ettinger
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sara Paretsky

Dorothy Parker

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elliot Perlman

Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Joseph Persico

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Marisha Pessl

Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Diana Preston

Annie Proulx

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

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Reich, B.

Perian Flaherty
Ruth. Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Jason Roberts

Geoffrey Robertson

Photo © Jane Bown
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Mark Sarvas

John Burlinson
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Owen Sheers

My image.
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Dan Simmons

Bill Sloan

Photograph by Lana Sloan
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Scott Smith

Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Jason Sokol

Betsy Sokol
Jean Stafford

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

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kate Summerscale

Cass R. Sunstein

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
J.R.R. Tolkien

Ian W. Toll

US Naval War College, Oct. 15, 2008 (credit: U.S. Navy photo by Stephen Rebello)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Robert Tombs

Jerry Bauer
David Traxel

Rosemary Ranck
Calvin Trillin

Iliya Troyanov

Photo by Effi Schweizer / Wikimedia Commons
James Turner

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Photo by Don Vantrease
Brian K Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Vendela Vida

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Virgil

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

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Ruth Wajnryb

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
David Foster Wallace

Alan Wall

rlf.org.uk
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton
E. B. White

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007, Brooklyn Book Festival
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Joseph Wilson

merbex on Democratic Underground
Marie Winn

Photo by Charles Kennedy
P. G. Wodehouse

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Lawrence Wright

Kenny Braun
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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