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Unknown

Paperback Pirate
Conrad Aiken

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

1909 photograph, George Grantham Bain (LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-103586)
Woody Allen -

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

Mary Astor

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
David Auburn

Columbia University
W. H. Auden

Steven Bach

Jerry Bauer
Enid Bagnold

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

Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine
dancing in a segment of "Don Quixote", 1965,
World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-129045)
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Brendan Behan

John Berryman

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

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

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Georges Bizet

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

Photo by Alan Light, 1976 (Cropped ~ Wikimedia & Flickr)
Judy Blume

Jorge Luis Borges

Mark Bowden

Paul Bowles

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Bertolt Brecht

Andre Breton

Benjamin Britten

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
Carolyn Brown

Jim Klosty
Daniel James Brown

Photo by Sharon V. Brown
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)
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Thomas Bulfinch

Luis Bunuel

Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Wikimedia Commons.
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Simon Callow

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
John LE CARRE

Lewis Carroll

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Clinton -

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
George Crabbe

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
American National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
E.E. Cummings

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

Photograph by Nadar
United States Army

defenselink.mil
Don DeLillo

Agnes De Mille

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

James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Anton Dolin

Anton Dolin, in Espagnole, photo by Carl Van Vechten, Oct. 9, 1940 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a51925)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan) Baring-Gould Doyle, William S Eds

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Isadora Duncan

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-05654 (cropped)
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Dave Eggers

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

Harlan Ellison

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Suzanne Farrell

Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine
dancing in a segment of "Don Quixote", 1965,
World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-129045)
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
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Ian Fleming

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Charles Frazier

Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
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
R. Buckminster Fuller

Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
WILLIAM GIBSON

Andre Gide

1893
W.S. Gilbert

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

Photo by Robert Stefanski
Philip Glass

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Gounod

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians" by Rupert Hughes
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Martha Graham

Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, 1961
(Credit: Carl Van Vechten)
(Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-116601)
Robert Graysmith

Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganUta Hagen

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

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Dag Hammarskjold

UN/DPI
Harewood

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (center). Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
HarperCollins

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

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

carl.army.mil
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Foster Hirsch

Vera Jaffe
Christopher Hitchens

Homer

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

Jack Huberman

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
John Huston

John Huston (22 June 1968) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienALDOUS HUXLEY

Wikipédia France
Eugene Ionesco

Joshilyn Jackson

Photo by Harris Ponder
Maxim Jakubowski

Jelaluddin Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Chuck Jones

Photo by Alan Light, 1976 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Tamara Karsavina

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Philipp Keel

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Frank Kermode

King James Version

King James I of England, watercolor by Nicholas Hilliard.
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Eastman Kodak

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
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
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Adam Langer

Gustave Lanson

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-05973)
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Lotte Lehmann

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

Robert Lewis

Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
Christopher Logue

Richard; National Gallery Publications Kendall, London

abbottthomas
Robert Lowell

George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Archibald MacLeish

Leonard Maltin

DAVID MAMET

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

John Martin

John Martin (1789-1854) / by James Thomson / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSteve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Jules Massenet

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

Eugene McCabe

Robert McCrum

Rand McNally and Company

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
David N. Meyer

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
John Morley

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Ed Naha

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Waslaw Nijinsky

Photo by Dover Street Studios, circa 1910-11 (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Geoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Clifford Odets

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Fernando Pessoa

Nathaniel Philbrick

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Gilda Radner

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

Ayn Rand

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

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Lennox Robinson

Theodore Roethke

Lela E. Rogers

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) with Ginger Rogers (second from the right) and her mother, Lela Rogers (right) at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. The two women at left are unidentified.
(trumanlibrary.org)
M. J. Rose

Photo by Michael Bergman
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
J. K. Rowling

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Miguel De Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.A.F. Sade, Marquis De

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Chris Salewicz

Tami Peterson
J. D. Salinger

Felix Salten

Jean-Paul Sartre

John Sayles

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Johann; Theodore Martin (translation) Von Schiller

Charles Schultz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ted Shawn

Ted Shawn, in "The Palace Dance", 1916
Photo by Ira Lawrence Hill
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Vincent Sheean

Helen Sheehy

© 2002 Joyce Ravid
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
BEDRICH SMETANA

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Amy Sohn

Photography by Charles Miller
Sophocles

Stephen Spender

Constantin Stanislavski

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35320
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

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

ricksteves.com
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Jim Taylor

Evan Osherow, November 2, 1999
Wallace Terry

Twyla Tharp

2004 Medalist Twyla Tharp with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and National Council on the Arts member Mary Costa.
Photo by Victoria Hutter.
Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
James Thurber

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

US Naval War College, Oct. 15, 2008 (credit: U.S. Navy photo by Stephen Rebello)
Leo Tolstoy, graf

public domain
George Turner

Norstrilia Press
Various

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Anonymous photographer
Gore Vidal

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

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

svreeland.com
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Joseph Wambaugh

Andy Warhol

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Kurt Weill

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

Description: Orson Welles, March 1, 1937
Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-119765
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRosemary Wells

Library of Congress
E. B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
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.
Thornton Wilder

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

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Jonathan Winters

Entertainer Jonathan Winters performs in a United Service Organizations (USO) show in the Pensacola Civic Center during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of naval aviation. (Released to Public) (dodmedia.osd.mil)
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Edward D Wood

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

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

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Richard Zacks

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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