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D'Arcy Norman
Edwin Abbott

From Wikipedia
Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark

Douglas Adams

Henry Adams


Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Adams

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Scott Adams

Kim Addonizio

Photographed by Robert Specter
Mortimer Jerome Adler

MDCarchives

Aeschylus

Ben Affleck

U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Justin N. McGarry (Wikimedia Commons)

James Agee

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy

Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons

Edward Albee

Leon Battista Alberti

Mitch Albom

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

William Alexander

Photo by Katherine Alexander
Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Isabel Allende

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

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Dorothy Allison

A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
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)

Lou Andreas-Salome

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Donald Antrim


Apuleis

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas

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)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
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)
Arrian

Catherine Asaro

John Cannizzo
Andrea Ashworth

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer 
W. H. Auden

Jean M. Auel


St. Augustine


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred J. Ayer

Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Isaac Babel

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

Wikipedia.
Chet Baker

Jeroen Coert
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Mark Baker

Mark Baker, Author of Books on Welsh Country Houses (Wikipedia)
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Lester Bangs

Melissa Bank

Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Pat Barker

Marjorie Barnard


Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Kim Barnes

Scott M. Barrie
Linda Barnes

Photo by Lynn Wayne
Dave Barry

John 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

Jeanine Basinger

Bill Burkhart
Frédéric Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat. Wikimedia Commons.
Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.

Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Melody Beattie

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Simone de Beauvoir

Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Louis Begley

Bettina Straus

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Edward Bellamy

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

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Bender Hy

Michael Bender

Greogory Benford

Walter Benjamin

Phyllis Bentley

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

Eye on Books
A. Scott Berg

Ingmar Bergman

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Berryman

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

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
T.J. Binyon

Courtesy of www.lifeinlegacy.com
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Wendy Bishop

Georges Bizet

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
R. P. Blackmur

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

Photograph by Matthew W. Stolper

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
M. F. Bloxam

Judy Blume

Victor Bockris

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Robert Bolt

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Wayne BOOTH

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office

Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Ben Bova

Mark Bowden

Catherine Drinker Bowen


Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Auer Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Michael Bracewell

Malcolm Bradbury


Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Barbara Branden

David Harmon
Nathaniel Branden

Gerd Brantenberg

Photo: Jarle Vines (2009)
Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Julia Briggs

David Brin

By R. Feist
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995

Anne Bronte


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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Max Brooks

Thomas Browne


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lyn Mikel Brown

Mark Tappan
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

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

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Edna Buchanan

Photograph by Jim Virga
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Art Buchwald

Christopher Buckley

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

Shunn
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
T. Bullfinch

Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
John Bunyan


Anthony Burgess

Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
James Burke

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Robert Burns

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

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Francis Burton

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Frederick Busch

Eye on Books

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma

Samuel Butler

Betsy Byars


A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney

Lord George Gordon Byron

Chelsea Cain


Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William Calvin

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
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)
Fritjof Capra

Orson Scott Card

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre


Emily Carr

Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
Lise Carrigg

Caralena.com
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas

Lewis Carroll

James P. Carse

http://www.jamescarse.com
Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Rachel L. Carson

from Wikipedia

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Emily Carter

Cecil Castellucci

Photo by Craig Wadlin
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com

Willa Cather

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

John Burlinson

Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Paul Cezanne

Self-portrait, circa 1883-1887
(Yorck Project)
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
George Chapman

wikipedia
Graham Chapman

Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada

Anton Chekhov

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

White House Photo by David Bohrer (Wikimedia Commons)
Pauline W. Chen

Joanne Chan
Kim Chernin

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)
Craig Leland Childs

Photo by Bruce Hucko
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Gennifer Choldenko

choldenko.com
Frederic Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

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

Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Laura Claridge

Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
John Cleese

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
John Cocteau

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

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Curt Colbert


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
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Source: Preşedintele României website (photo taken Sept. 21, 2005 at meeting with President of Romania)
Barbara Corcoran

Gena Corea

geryunant.com
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Patricia Cornwell

Microsoft

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Norman Cousins

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington

Hart Crane


Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Francis Crick

Benedetto Croce

William V. Crockett

Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Jeremiah Curtin

Curtin in December 1905
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
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)
Rosie Daley

David Damrosch

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
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
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Peter David

Avram Davidson

Luke Davies

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Robertson Davies

Peter Davison


Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Keith R.A. DeCandido

http://www.startrekdb.se/litteratur/litteratur.php?forfattare=28
Richard Dedekind

Emil Schulz (from an album donated to the Mathematischen Gesellschaft, Hamburg)

E. M. Delafield


Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Alan M. Dershowitz

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Colin Dexter


Charles Dickens

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

James Dickey


Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
William Dietrich


Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

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

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen R. Donaldson


John Donne

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

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
H. D.

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

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

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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


Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia

Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Theodore Dreiser

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


John Dryden

John Dufresne

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Alexandre Dumas

fils Dumas, Alexandre

Sarah Dunant

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Mark Dunn

Will Durant


Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website

Gerald Durrell

Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall with Diane Lane at 41st Emmy Awards, 1989 (Credit: Alan Light)

Bob DYLAN

Esther Dyson

Joi Ito
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Mary Baker Eddy

Photographic print copyrighted 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-53514)
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Hope Edelman

Courtesy of Hope Edelman
David Edmonds

Margaret Edson

Columbia University
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

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

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573

George Eliot

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

T.S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler

Harlan Ellison

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

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Earl Emerson

Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Kelley Eskridge

Photo by Nicola Griffith

Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid

Euripides

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

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

wikimedia commons
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Dorothy J. Farnan

Mia Farrow

Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Marc D. Feldman, M.D.

Bogdan Dimitriu, 2007
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Carrie Fisher

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

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
Edward FitzGerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Shelby Foote

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives

Ford Madox Ford

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

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Michael Thomas Ford

Photo by Michael Thomas Ford
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
George Foreman


E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. Foster

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Julia Fox

Susan Greenhill
Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox with wife Tracy Pollen,
1988, 40th Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Katherine Frank

Miles Franklin

Viktor E. Frankl

Pat Frank

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Valerie J. Freireich

Permission of VJF.
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
James Frey

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Jonathan Fryer

photo Ron Coverson

Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Alexandra Fuller

Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
John J. Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com

Neil Gaiman

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Irene Gammel

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Photo © Esther Dyson
Alex Garland

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Bill Gates

Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress

John Gay


Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Nelson George

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Reginald Gibbons

Marc Hauser
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

John Gielgud

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
George Gissing

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

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr

Louise Gluck

Gail Godwin


Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association

Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Christopher Golden

William Goldman

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

Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Ariel Gore

Photo by Tiffany Talbott
Glenn Gould

Walter Curtin (Toronto, 1974)
Philip Gourevitch

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

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Robert Graysmith

Lucy Grealy

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University

Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Jacob Grimm

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

Gage Skidmore
Doris Grumbach

Photograph by Robert Giard & Copyright@Estate of Robert Giard.
Barbara Guest

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

Ursula K. Le Guin


Thom Gunn

R. S. Gwynn

Don Usner

Marilyn Hacker

Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Joe W. Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Janet Campbell Hale

Alice Bergeron
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Ayun Halliday

Photo by Greg Kotis
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dag Hammarskjöld

UN/DPI

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007
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
Frank Harris

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Joanne Harris

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Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Debbie Harry

Sarah Black, 25.07.1979
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heany


Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Martin Heidegger

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer

Lillian Hellman

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Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy

Ernest Hemingway

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Gregory H. Hemingway

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Robert Henri

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O. Henry

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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.
Herodotus

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
J. C. Herz

Photo by James Duncan Davidson
Hermann Hesse

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert Higgs

The Mises Institute

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
E.D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Edward Hirsch


Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson

Homer

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


Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nancy Horan

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008.
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

Attia Hosain

Barney Hoskyns

A. E. Housman

David Huddle

Photo by Chip Riegel

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
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Piktor08 at de.wikipedia

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France

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John Irving

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Shirley Jackson

Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
A.J. Jacobs

Linda Brent

wikipedia
Jane Jacobs


Henry James

Wikipedia

P.D. James

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William James

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Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
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Randall Jarrell

Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
K. W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Kij Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger

Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Alvin M. Jr Josephy

Jerry Bauer

James Joyce

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Carl Gustav Jung

Ernst Juenger


Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Jeffrey Kacirk

Photographed by Susan Feldman

Franz Kafka

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Immanuel Kant

Mary Karr

Charlotte S. Kasl

www.charlottekasl.com
M. M. Kaye

Jonathan Keates

Jerry Bauer

John Keats

Jonathon Keats

Photo by Timothy Vollmer / Flickr
Andrew Keen

Joi Ito
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Pagan Kennedy

Hugh Kenner


Jack Kerouac

Jean Kerr

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M. E. Kerr

Marijane Meaker
Ken Kesey

Dharma Singh Khalsa

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Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Ross King

Stephen King

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari

Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

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Ivan Klíma

Chuck Klosterman

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Richard Kluger

© 2003 Phyllis Kluger
Caroline Knapp

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dean Koontz

Jerzy Kosinski

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Peter D. Kramer

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Milan Kundera

Stanley Kutler

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
R.A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Myrna Lamb


Anne Lamott


Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)

Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004

Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Antoine Lavoisier

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D.H. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Denis Leary

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597

Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.

Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

Nicholas Lemann

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Charlotte Lennox

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Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
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Doris Lessing

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Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA

Primo Levi

Monica Lewinsky

Photo by Secretary of Defense Photographer Helene Stikkel, 1997 (Wikimedia Commons)

C.S. Lewis


Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Meriwether Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis

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Jethro Koller Lieberman

New York Law School
Alison Light


Abraham Lincoln

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Laura Lippman

James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Elizabeth Loftus

University of California, Irvine

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)

Federico Garcia Lorca

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Jim Lovell

Photo created by NASA

Robert Lowell

Beverly Lowry

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Lucretius

Charles Ludlam

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Alison Lurie

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Martin Luther

John Lydon

Thomas Lynch

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Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
George MacDonald

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Robert MacNeil

Brenda Maddox

James Madison

Maurice Maeterlinck

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MAD Magazine

beneneuman and the staff of Mad Magazine.
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Alma Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen

Osip Mandelshtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Camryn Manheim

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Thomas Mann


Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Ray Manzarek

Cristina Gehlen
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
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Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis


Martial

From Wikipedia
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Groucho Marx

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Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Bobbie Ann Mason

Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Alexander Masters

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron Hogan
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere 
Daphne Du Maurier

André Maurois

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Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Anne McCaffrey


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
Scott McCloud

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum


Carson McCullers

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Colleen McCullough

Ian McDonald

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

Eamonn McCabe
George Mcgovern

U.S. Senate Historical Office
James E. McGreevey

Credit: David Shankbone, July 2007
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Adrian McKinty

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cheryl Mendelson

Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center

W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Diane Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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Henry Miller

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan

Kate Millett

Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives

John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Broadus Mitchell

Courtesy of the Hofstra University Archives.
Margaret Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Paula Modersohn-Becker

Deutsche Post / Wikimedia Commons
Moliere

Wikipédia France

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette

Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Fred Moody

Alfredo Castaneda
Rick Moody

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Lyda Morehouse

Thomas More

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

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Kate Moses

Claire Lewis

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Cope Moyers

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
MTV

MTV Studios, July 2006, photo by Alli (
Spojení on Flickr)

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert

Iris Murdoch

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Steve Pyke)
David G. Myers

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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Ed Naha

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
John Nash

Author of photo is Elke Wetzig.
Soseki Natsume

University of Navarre

Universidad de Navarra. Photo by user Berlin 2209 / Wikimedia Commons.
Nicholas Negroponte

Robert Scoble
Blake Nelson

Blake Nelson. Personal website: http://www.blakenelsonbooks.com/
Miriam Nelson

Howard Nemerov

Gerard De Nerval


Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Geoff Nicholson

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory

Nietzche

Gustav Schultze

Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
William A. Nolen M.D.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stephen B. Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Barack Obama

Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

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Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College

Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John O'Hara


Sharon Olds

IUriˆi Karlovich Olesha

From Wikipedia
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown

Tillie Olsen

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Eugene Oneill

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Susie Orbach

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Dean Ornish

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

George Orwell

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

Daryl N Long
Ann Packer

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)

Dorothy Parker

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Robert B. Parker

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

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Joe Nick Patoski

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Molly Peacock

Drawing by Lara Tomlin
Iain Pears

Dale Peck

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Maxwell E Perkins

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-111615)

Fernando Pessoa

Edith Pargeter

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Margot Peters

Charles Peterson

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Petronius

Henry Petroski

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Christopher Phillips

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
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Julie PhillipsJean Piaget

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Mary Bray Pipher


Luigi Pirandello

Robert M Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007

Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia

Sylvia Plath


Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Plotinus

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo


Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Karl Raimund Popper

Cole Porter

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-122087
Chaim Potok


Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Ann Powers

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cherie Priest

Caitlin Kittredge/Cherie Priest
Christopher. Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Francine Prose


Marcel Proust

Ptolemy

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333

Barbara Pym

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
Anna Quindlen

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Paul Raeburn

Courtesy of Paul Raeburn
David Rakoff

Author: Larry D. Moore
Arnold Rampersad

Brigitte Carnochan
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Judith L. Rapoport

National Institutes of Health
Jonah Raskin

Irina Ratushinskaya

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
Andy Ray


Lou Reed

Brave New Films, October 16, 2006
David Rees

David Reichert

U.S. House of Representatives History Office
Kathy Reichs

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Self-portrait, 1633,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Mary Renault

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Richard Reynolds

Maggie Hannan
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlexandra Robbins

Tom Robbins

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)

Theodore Roethke

Phyllis Rose

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Joseph Roth

Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
Arundhati Roy

Lillian B. Rubin

Julian Rubinstein

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Matt Ruff

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
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Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Anatoli Naumovich Rybakov

from Wikipedia

Miguel De Cervantes

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Rafael Sabatini

Courtesy of the
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Fred Saberhagen

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


J. D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Jean-Paul Sartre


Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum

Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
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Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
Budd Schulberg

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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
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Sandra Scoppettone

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Alice Sebold

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David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Martin E. Seligman

Martin E.P. Seligman
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
Director, Positive Psychology Center
President, American Psychological Association, 1998

Anne Sexton

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Bob Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw

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Robert Silverberg

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Roger Fry (1866-1934)
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Ragesoss, November 8, 2007

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Voltaire

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