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R. Tucker Abbott

Photo Courtesy of The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Peter Abelard

Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Louisa May Alcott

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

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Donna Andrews

Photo by Mary A. Dusing
Isaac Asimov.

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
Linwood Barclay

Dave Barry

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Karl Barth

Daisy Bates

Elizabeth Becka

E. F. Benson

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

Eye on Books
Yogi Berra

Photo taken by Wikipedia user "Googie Man"
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Tanya Biank

Photo by Bob Mathews, cropped by uploader
(Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Claudia Bishop

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Stephen G. Bloom

Courtesy of Stephen G. Bloom.
M. F. Bloxam

Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Leonardo Boff

Credit: Hermínio Oliveira/Agência Brasil, 2003
Jay R. Bonansinga

Jim Newberry
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ulrich Boser

Nora Gallagher
C. J. Box

John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Ori Brafman

Josyn Herce
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Charlotte Brontë

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
Daniel James Brown

Photo by Sharon V. Brown
Martin Buber

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Alban Butler

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

Janan Cain

photo by John Cain for Parenting Press
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tony Campolo

Wikipedia
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

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

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J. Revell Carr

Photograph by Alan P. Russell
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Catholic Church.,

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (Photo credit: Wolfgang Stuck, Sept. 2004)
Bruce Catton

Bennett Cerf

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

(right) Credit: NASA/Doreen B. Zudell
Dan Chaon

photo by Philip Chaon
Pauline W. Chen

Joanne Chan
Brevard S. Childs

James R. Chiles

Gennifer Choldenko

choldenko.com
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),

Rockville Presbyterian Church, Rockville, Maryland. Photo by Scott Robinson / Flickr.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eye on Books
Mary Jane Behrends Clark

John B. Cobb

Silversoul7
Ace Collins

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

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

John Darnton

J. Player
Peter David

John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Don DeLillo

John D'Emilio

Jim Oleson
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest Association.,

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas Dixon

Portrait of Thomas Dixon by A.J. Conant.
James C. Dobson

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.)
E. L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner R. Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Theodore Dreiser

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

af.mil
Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Umberto Eco

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

Sophie Egan
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Episcopal Church. Holy Eucharist

Washington National Cathedral. Photo by user AgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons
of Caesarea Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea

Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Linda Fairstein

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

John Farris

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Bruce S. Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
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

Gillian Flynn

Shelby Foote

Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
Richard J. Foster

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Lisa Gardner

Susan R. Garrett

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.)
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Gail Godwin

Christopher Golden

Peter J. Gomes

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Edward C. Goodman

Michael Glatfelter
Heather Graham

Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Joel B. Green

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.)
Linda Greenlaw

Michael Green

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.)
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Gustavo Gutiérrez

Mohan
David Halberstam

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
G F; Noble Handel, T Tertius (editor)

Wikipedia Commons.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Michael Harvey

David Turner
Stanley Hauerwas

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Patricia Campbell Hearst

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lynn Heitritter

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
David Helvarg

From the author
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Brian Hicks

Photograph by Grace Beahm
Liz Curtis Higgs

posted by Nikol
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
L. Ron Hubbard

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Bill Hybels

Henrik Ibsen

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

Vicki L. Ingham

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Portia Iversen

Shirley Jackson

Al Jaffee

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
William James

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

James Joyce

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Maira Kalman

William Kamkwamba

Thomas a Kempis

David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Donald Ervin Knuth

David Monniaux
Robert Kolb

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.)
Dean R. Koontz

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
Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Anne Lamott

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Deborah LeBlanc

Harper Lee

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

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

Daniel J. Levitin

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

MDCarchives
J. B. Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot as portrayed in the anonymous, late nineteenth century biography called Bishop Lightfoot.
Alan P. Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Laura Lippman

Norah Lofts

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

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

General James Longsteet, CSA, from a wartime photograph.
Jean Lorrah

no credit given
Max Lucado

Martin Luther

Steve Luxenberg

Courtesy of The Washington Post
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Catherine Marshall

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.)
Ngaio Marsh

Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jean Marzollo

Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Sharyn McCrumb

Cammie McGovern

Photo by Ellen Augarten
John McManners

Hugh McManners
Rand McNally and Company.,

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Diane McWhorter

Columbia University
Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
I. H. Meredith

Isaac H. Meredith. Portrait from page 404 of Biography of Gospel song and hymn writers (1914) by Jacob Henry Hall
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Bruce Manning Metzger

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.)
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
A.A. Milne

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

Bill Minutaglio

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Margaret Mitchell

Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Charlotte Moore

Kate Lithgow
David. Morrell

Marcia Muller

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
NASCAR

UAW Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, March 2, 2008. (U.S Air Force photo by Airman Stephanie Rubi) (Released)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Lesslie Newbigin

Bishop Lesslie Newbigin Photo created by Alastair Cutting
of Norwich Julian

Henri Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Laura Joffe Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Carol O'Connell

Thomas C. Oden

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.)
Michael Okuda

Stewart O'Nan

Eugene O'Neill

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

Daryl N Long
Katherine Hall Page

James Patterson

Mary Pearson

Courtesy of the author
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Richard Peck

Jaroslav Pelikan


Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Tom Piazza

John Burlinson, 8/24/08
John Pipkin

KennethGall.com
Sylvia Plath

Gary M. Pomerantz

Roy Porter

Diana Preston

Cherie Priest

Photo by Cherie Priest
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Francine Prose

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC

Kathy Reichs

Helen Steiner Rice

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.)
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
John Elder Robison

Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Peter Roop

Chris Rose

Flickr user infrogmation
Arthur Rubinstein

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress
Robert Rummel-Hudson

Photo by Julie Rummel-Hudson
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Camille Saint-Saens

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Shelley Swanson Sateren

Courtesy of Shelley Swanson Sateren
Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Lisa Scottoline

Library of Congress
Christopher R. Seitz

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.)
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 ArtJeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara

Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wikipedia
Michael Shapiro

irina slutsky
William Shatner

David W. Shaw

Photographed by Elizabeth A. Shaw
Mary Shelly

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Ronald Sider

Photo from Eastern University
Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Bernie S. Siegel

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Peter Sís

Matěj Baťha
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Dennis Smith

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Martin J. Smith

martinjsmith.com
Alexandra Sokoloff

Author
G. Moxley Sorrel

G. Moxley Sorrel, Library of Congress collection.
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Mickey Spillane

Les Standiford

Virginia Wells
Maurice H. Stans

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce (Wikipedia)
Wallace Earle Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Kathryn Stockett

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Kate Summerscale

Ron Suskind

Columbia University
James L. Swanson

Library of Congress
Daniel Tammet

Lewis Thomas

Carlene Thompson

Jim Sprouse
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Time Life Ed

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Miriam Toews

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Scott Turow

Desmond Tutu

Photo By Benny Gool, www.en.wikipedia.com
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lee Vance

Joanne Savio
Vernor Vinge

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

Carolyn D. Wall

Walter Wangerin

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
John C. Waugh

John C. Waugh
Simone Weil

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. B. White

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

Elena Seibert
David Wiesner

Library of Congress
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
William H. Willimon

F. Paul Wilson

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Donald A. Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bob Woodward

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
H. Norman Wright

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.)
Dan Yaccarino

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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