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Edward Abbey

Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Tariq Ali

Isabel Allende

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

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Miguel Angel Asturias

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
I. Babel

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

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

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

Herbert Ernest Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Steve Bell

www.chrismsaunders.co
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Thomas Berger

Louis De Bernières

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Richard Brautigan

Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
André Philippus Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
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)
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Terry Brooks

Dee Brown

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Julius Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

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
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Carl Von Clausewitz

Jonathan Coe

J. M. Coetzee

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Julian Cope

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
Richard Henry Dana

Ray Davies

Flavio Ferrari, October 28, 2007
Robertson Davies

Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Thomas M Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen Dobyns

E.L. Doctorow

Stephen Donaldson

J. P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
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)
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
T.S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Philip José Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Don Felder

Phil Konstantin
Niall Ferguson

Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Sir James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Alex Garland

Mark Gatiss

eye4images
Bob Geldof

Credit: Barbara Mürdter, 1991
Ricky Gervais

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

William Golding

William Goldman

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

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Rob Grant

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
George Grossmith

public domain image
Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula K. Le Guin

Thom Gunn

G.I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
Allan Gurganus

David 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)
Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
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)
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.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Stefan Heym

Photo by Rainer Weisflog. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-031)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Bill Hicks

www.chrismsaunders.com
Oscar Hijuelos

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Stanley Holloway

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

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

Barney Hoskyns

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
G.Cabrera Infante

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Jane Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Nikos Kazantzakes

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Douglas Kennedy

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jerzy Kosinski

Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesquePhillip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
John Lennon

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Livy

from Wikipedia
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Anita Loos

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Rory MacLean

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Gaucho Marx

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

W Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
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
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Robert Merle

Wikipédia France
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
China Mieville

Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Catherine Millet

Giles Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Tim Moore

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Marlene van Niekerk

Audrey Niffenegger

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Octavio Paz

David Peace

Charles Glover
George P. Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
D. B. C Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
J B Priestley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Gordon Ramsay

AYN RAND

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Robert Rankin

Mary Renault

Tom Robbins

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Alexei Sayle

www.chrismsaunders.com
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

public domain
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Giles Smith

Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Olaf Stapledon

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

flickr user Loz Flowers. Credited at Wikipedia to user Loz Pycock.
John Steinbeck

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

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Cornelius Tacitus

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Paul Theroux

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

Mark Thomas

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hunter S. Thompson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
John Kennedy Toole

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Pete Townshend

Ian MacIsaac, March 9th, 2007
Rose Tremain

Steve Turner

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
John Varley

Gore Vidal

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

Alice Walker

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

Joseph Wambaugh

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
William Wharton

Edmund White

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Robert McLiam Wilson

Courtesy of Random House UK
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Thomas Wolfe

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

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Frank Zappa

Helge Øverås, January 16th 1977
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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