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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie
(Photograph by Lou Abercrombie)
Douglas Adams

Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Pat Barker

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Saul Bellow

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

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)
Terry Brooks

Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jim Butcher

Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
Graham Chapman

A.P. Chekhov

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

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Carl von Clausewitz

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jonathan Coe

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Patricia Cornwell

Marianne Curley

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)
Charles (illustrated by Phiz) Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Gerald Durrell

George Eliot

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

Niall Ferguson

Dan Fesperman

Helen Fielding

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Neil Gaiman

Alex Garland

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

James W. Hall

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jack Higgins

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
James Hogg

Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

Isabel Hoving

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Henry James

Wikipedia
P D James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksPeter James

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
James Joyce

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
John Keats

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Hari Kunzru

David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Primo Levi

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
George Mac Donald

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.)
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Karen Miller

Mary GT Webber
A.A. Milne

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

Kevin Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore (b. 1960), US economist
Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Saint Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Sally. Morningstar

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Morrell

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
John Mortimer

Kate Mosse

David G Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Edith Nesbit
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Garth Nix

George Orwell

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
James. Patterson

Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
ALLISON PEARSON

Jerry Bauer
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
John Polkinghorne

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Francois Rabelais

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Robert Rankin

Kathy Reichs

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Gary Rhodes

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
James Clemens

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Simon Scarrow

Picture from his website http://scarrow.co.uk
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Adam Smith

Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Wilbur Smith

Zadie Smith

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Virgil

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

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

from Wikipedia
Mike Wilks

Supplied by subject
Tad Williams

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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