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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Marc Abrahams

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Joel Achenbach

Photographed by Mark Thiessen
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Art Adams

"woolennium"
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee


Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Steve Allen

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Steve Almond

Jorge Amado

Stephen E. Ambrose

Kenn Amdahl

photo by Scott Amdahl
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Sherwood Anderson

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

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sir Edwin Arnold

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Catherine Asaro

John Cannizzo
Neal Asher

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. J. Ayer

Brian Azzarello

Paolo Bacigalupi

Brad Ackerman
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Wayne Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J. M. Barrie

Dave Barry

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Max Barry

(c) Lauren Thomas
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Karl Barth

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Gregory Bassham

Stephen Batchelor

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayle

wikimedia commons
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
C.C. Beck

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Bede

Martyn Bedford

Photo by Claire McNamee
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Edward Bellamy

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

Robert C. Benchley

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

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
Gregory Benford

E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carol Berg

Thomas Berger

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Georges Bernanos

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Jerry Bingham

Courtesy of Jerry Bingham.
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Roy Blount, Jr.

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Giovanni Boccaccio translated by G.H. McWilliam

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
David Bodanis

Boethius

Robert Bolt

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ben Bova

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Paul Bowles

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sebastian Brant

Project Gutenberg
Richard brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

Andre Breton

Stephen Breyer

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portrait)
Rob Brezsny

Photo by Brian Eisley. Taken at Burning Man 2003.
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
David Brin

By R. Feist
Douglas G. Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Damien broderick

Barbara Lamar
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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Ed Brubaker

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Christopher Buckley

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Stephen Budiansky

Algis Budrys

Shunn
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Bob Burden

"Pinguino"
Anthony Burgess

James Burke

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Kurt Busiek

Photo by khaosworks
Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Smedley D. Butler

Wikimedia (U.S. Marine Corps Photo)
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Jesse L. Byock

James B. Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Rachel Caine

Photo by Sharon Sams-Adams
James M. Cain

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

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Eddie Campbell

Picture by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Milton Caniff

Alan Light
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)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Jeff Carlson

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Rudolf Carnap

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

James P. Carse

http://www.jamescarse.com
Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Camilo Jose Cela Conde

ÁWá
Celsus

Lithograph by Pierre Roch Vigneron, circa 1865 (Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Graham Chapman

Stepan Chapman

Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Howard Chaykin von Wintergeist bei Flickr
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2992688239_815befc5e9_b.jpg
John Cheever

Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G.K. Chesterton

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

Elze Hamilton
Mark Childress

Noam Chomsky

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Sir Winston Churchill

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

from Wikipedia
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

William Kingdon Clifford

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
William Cobb

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Nancy A. Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Confucius

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Darwyn Cooke

Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Stephanie Coontz

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Coover

Frederick Copleston

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Noel Coward

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

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
F. Marion Crawford

Credit: Zaida Ben-Yusuf, circa 1900
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83072)
Edward Shepherd Creasy

Francis Crick

David Crockett

Public domain (University of Texas at Austin)
Aleister Crowley


John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Hal Crowther

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Clarence Darrow

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

CDT
Charles Darwin

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

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Peter David

Avram Davidson

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889 (credit: William C. Washburn, 1888; LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-121704)
Richard Dawkins

Dorothy Day

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Guy Debord

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Keith R.A. DeCandido

http://www.startrekdb.se/litteratur/litteratur.php?forfattare=28
Jamie Delano

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Lester del Rey

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
United States Pay Department

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Alan M. Dershowitz

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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


Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Jeanne Kalogridis

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Paul Dini

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con, photo by Lampbane
Michael Dirda

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

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Ivan Stang

The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.
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
E.L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Sara Douglass

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Arthur Conan. Doyle

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Arnold Drake

Irwin Hasen and Arnold Drake (right, sitting)
at NY Comic-Con 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDavid Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Elizabeth Drew

Library of Congress
Clare Dudman

Credit: Sandra Johnson
(AP Watt)
Alexandre Dumas

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Elaine Dundy

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Lon Milo DuQuette

Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
David Anthony Durham

Emile Durkheim

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
David Louis Edelman

Photo by Victoria Edelman
Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Greg Van Eekhout

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Phyllis Eisenstein

Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott (1960- )
Photo by Alan Light, September 17, 1989, 41st Emmy Awards
(Flickr attribution license)
Joseph J. Ellis

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

Harlan Ellison

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

Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jacques Ellul

used by permission ©AIJE
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steve Englehart

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Garth Ennis

pinguino k
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Epicurus

Image by ChrisO, 18 June 2006.From
WkipediaDesiderius Erasmus

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

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

Mark Evanier

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Michael Faraday

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Alison Fell

David Ferry

Ludwig Feuerbach

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Paul Difilippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Charles Finney

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.)
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Jude Fisher

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

Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

PAT FRANK

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

Wikimedia Commons
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Mike Friedrich

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Esther M. Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
Robert Frost

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University

Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
David Gemmell

Jean Genet

Chris Genoa

Copyright 2001, Chris Genoa
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Floyd Phillips Gibbons

Image from "And they thought we wouldn't fight." (1918) by Floyd Phillips Gibbons
William Gibson

Andre (translated By Richard Howard) Gide

1893
Thomas Gilovich

Nicola Kountoupes
Cornell University Photography
Victor Gischler

Victor Gischler ~ Photo by Anthony Neil Smith
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Kathleen Ann Goonan

Permission of KAG.
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Philip Henry Gosse

1855. Maull (d. 1914) & Polyblank (b. 1820).
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Colin Greenland

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Lady Gregory

Image from Irish plays and playwrights (1913) by Cornelius Weygandt
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Jacob Grimm

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

Emory University
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Austin Grossman

Christopher Peterson (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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 HoganGary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
david halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
James Halperin

ha.com
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Tom Harpur

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
B.H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Max Hastings

Stanley Hauerwas

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.)
Pete Hautman

Photo by Linda Poverman
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
F. A. Hayek

William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Jennifer Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Chris Hedges

G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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Frank Herbert

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Radioflux, 2004
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Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
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Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Chuck Jones

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Kathy Chapman, 2008
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Paul Krugman (1953- )
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Katherine Kurtz
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Delaclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Par Lagerkvist

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Di Lampedusa Giuseppe T.

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Stan Lee

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Dennis Lehane

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Fritz Leiber

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Lem Stanislaw

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Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
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Kelly Link

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Charles de Lint

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

George R. R. Martin

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Ed McBain

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Mike Mignola

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Keith Miller

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Laura Miller

Nancy Crampton
Lydia Millet

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Steven Millhauser

Tony Millionaire

Eisner Awards @ Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
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Judith Moffett

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Michel Eyquem Montaigne

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Chris Mooney

Ted Mooney

Nicholas Latimer

Michael Moorcock

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

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Thomas More

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Edith Nesbit
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

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Larry Niven (1938- )
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George Orwell

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Robert M. Overstreet

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Camille Paglia

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Walker Percy

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Richard Rosenthal
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Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Rachel Pollack

Polybius

Paul Pope

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Karl Popper

Katherine Anne Porter

Gerald Posner

Jan Potocki

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William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
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Anthony Powell

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Samantha Power

Richard Powers

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David A. Price

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Cherie Priest

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Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Francine Prose

Annie E. Proulx

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

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Steve Purcell

Eisner Awards (Best Digital Comic), San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
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Lynn Donaldson
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Lisa Randall

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Ayn Rand

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James Randi

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Robert Rankin

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Tom Robbins

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James Robinson

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Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
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Rudy Rucker
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Brian Ruckley
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Damon Runyon

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Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
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The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
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William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
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Stan Sakai

J.D. Salinger

R. A. Salvatore

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George Santayana

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Andrzej Sapkowski

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Jose Saramago

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Robert J. Sawyer

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

Simon Schama

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Aug. 15, 2006
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Eric Schlosser

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Stanley Schmidt

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Catriona Sparks
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Charles M. Schulz

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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
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David Scott

Astronaut David R. Scott (Photo created by NASA)
Walter Sir Scott

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Tait Chirenje
E.C. Segar

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Desmond Seward

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Bob Shaw

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Wallace Shawn

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F. R. R. Mallory
Mary Shelley

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Jim Shepard

Barry Goldstein
Michael Shermer

Murasaki Shikibu

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Sharon Shinn

Jim Shooter

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Ronald J. Sider

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Jan Siegel

Jerry Siegel

1976 San Diego Comic-Con, photo by Alan Light

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Marc Silvestri

Dave Sim

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Dan Simmons

Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
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B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
Brian Francis Slattery

Dan Slott

Luigi Novi
Adam Smith

Cordwainer Smith

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Kevin Smith

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L. Neil Smith

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Thorne Smith

Wilbur Smith

George Smoot

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C.P. Snow

Midori Snyder

Photo by Stephen Haessler
Jeff Somers

Barbara Nitke
S. P. Somtow

S.P. Somtow
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Mickey Spillane

Benedict de Spinoza

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
John Shelby Spong

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Jerry Stahl

Olaf Stapledon

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Rodney Stark

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Allen Steele

Geoffrey A. Landis
John Steinbeck

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Gertrude Stein

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Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
James Stephens

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Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Jim Steranko

K72ndst
Bruce Sterling

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Laurence Sterne

Dave Stevens

photo by Alan Light. 1982 Inkpot awards.
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Sean Stewart

S. M. Stirling

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
J. Michael Straczynski

At the 2007 New York Comic-Con.
Gottfried von Strassburg

Peter Straub

David Friedrich Strauss

David Friedrich Strauss (1808 - 1874) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienCharles Stross


Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Sir

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Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Emanuel Swedenborg

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Thomas Stephen Szasz

Photograph by Jeffrey A. Schaler
James D. Tabor

Tacitus

Bryan Talbot

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Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ben Templesmith

NYCC 2009
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

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

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
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
James Jr Tiptree

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Alexis de Tocqueville

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J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

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John Kennedy Toole

Karen Traviss

Calvin Trillin

Lionel Trilling

Anthony Trollope

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Thomas Tryon

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Wilson Tucker

Judy Mays
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress

Mark Twain

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Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Lao Tzu

Sun-tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
H. Vaihinger

Catherynne Valente

Photograph by Ellen Datlow

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Jeff VanderMeer

A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

John Varley

Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Jules Verne

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Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
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Joan D. Vinge

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Vernor Vinge

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

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
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Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Francois Voltaire


Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

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Karl E. Wagner

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Matt Wagner

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Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
A. E. Waite

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Howard Waldrop

Alice Walker

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Daniel Wallace

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David Foster Wallace

Evangeline Walton

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Walter wangerin jr

Chris Ware

Brad Warner

Robert Penn Warren

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Sam R. Watkins

Civil War Preservation Trust
Ian Watson

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Lawrence Watt-Evans

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Alexander Waugh

Glyn Howells
Evelyn Waugh

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James Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
David Weber

Max Weber

Stephen Weiner

Len Wein

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Donald E. Westlake

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
Nathanael West

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Edith Wharton

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Michael Whelan

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Andrew Dickson White

James White

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
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Walt Whitman

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Oscar Wilde

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Kate Wilhelm

Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Charles Williams

Liz Williams

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Jack Williamson

Tad Williams

Tennessee Williams

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Walter Jon Williams

Bill Willingham

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Connie Willis

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Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan

Robert Anton Wilson

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Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Sloan Wilson

Judd Winick

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Walter Wink

Jeanette Winterson

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Thomas Wolfe

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

Marv Wolfman

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Brian Wood

Self-Portrait (Wikimedia Commons)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

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

Nick Wiebe
Philip Wylie

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Xenophon

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Malcolm X

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Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
Chelsa quinn yarbro

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William Butler Yeats

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Jane Yolen

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Yevgeny Zamyatin


Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Howard Zinn

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