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EDWIN ABBOTT

From Wikipedia
Joel Achenbach

Photographed by Mark Thiessen
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Louisa May Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Julia Alvarez

Kingsley Amis

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

Library of Congress
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Piers Anthony

Aristophanes

Daisy Ashford

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-30073
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J. M. Barrie

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Wendell Berry

Holly Black

David Bodanis

Robert Bolt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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.)
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Gregory A. Boyd

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.)
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Sarah Rees Brennan

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
David Brin

By R. Feist
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
Geraldine Brooks

Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Sigmund Brouwer

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.)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
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)
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
James Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Ron Butlin

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Oswald Chambers

C.J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Charles W. Chesnutt

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

J. M. Coetzee

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
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)
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Michael Dirda

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

Tim Dorsey

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

taleswapper
Lord Dunsany

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

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

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

billfitzhugh.com
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)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

John Gay

Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
William Gibson

Robert Girardi

God

Iridescent Glory of Nearby Helix Nebula (aka The Eye of God) as photographed by The Hubble Telescope
Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).
Nikolai Gogol

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

Francisco Goldman

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
William Goldman

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
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
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
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)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nalo Hopkinson

Nick Hornby

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Tom E. Canavan
Mr. John R. Kohlenberger III

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington. Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Brian Jacques

Clr James

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJerome K. Jerome

Jewel

Aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Harry S. Truman in
the Mediterranean, Dec. 16, 2000
(Photo taken by Linda D. Kozaryn)
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Agnes Newton Keith

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

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Christina Lamb

George Lamming

George Lamming, 1955. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-114409)
Anne Lamott

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Aldo Leopold

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George MacDonald

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.)
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
David R. Mains

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
James Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Anne Mccaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McDonald

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Brian D. McLaren

Photo by user Virgil Vaduva / English Wikipedia.
H. L. Mencken

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
China Mieville

A. A. Milne

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

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Tim Moore

Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Rusty Morrison

Helena Festival of the Book
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Kathleen Thompson Norris

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID agc.7a10214. Author Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)
Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Van Reid

Photo by Margaret Hunter
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Rick Riordan

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

Eye on Books
J. K. Rowling

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Ryˆokan

wikimedia commons - Dready - A Picture of a Statue of Ryokan from Niigata Japan
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
J. D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Sonia Sanchez

Photo by Kel Munger.
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

Judith Byron Schachner

Library of Congress
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Maurice Sendak

Dr Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtBeppe Severgnini

Davide Schenetti (Wikimedia Commons)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Will Shetterly

by Emma Bull
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Sasa Stanisic

Photo by Hans-Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Charles Stross

Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Alfred Tennyson

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy, graf

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

A. W. Tozer

Photo courtesy of Lowell Tozer
P. L. Travers

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

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sigrid Undset

Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Jeff Vandermeer

Jean Vanier

John Burlinson
A.E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
VARIOUS

John Varley

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Walter Wangerin, Jr.

Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
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
Oscar Wilde

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
F. Paul Wilson

Lauren F. Winner

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.)
P. G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Evgeniˆi Ivanovich Zamiatin

Aaron Zenz

www.aaronzenz.com
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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