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Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

National Park Service
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Isaac Babel

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

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
M. M. Bakhtin

Francis Beaumont

Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Judy Blume

Richard Nelson Bolles

Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Ulrich Boser

Nora Gallagher
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Malcolm Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Donovan Campbell

Wheeler Sparks
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

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

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia

Willa Cather

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

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

From "Woman's Work in Music," Arthur Elson, 1903
Project Gutenberg
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Muzio Clementi

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians," Rupert Hughes, 1903
Project Gutenberg
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Trevor Corson

Archibald Cox

U.S. Dept. of Justice
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Percy Dearmer

http://copies.anglicansonline.org/churchtimes/990903/feat.htm
Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

John Dufresne

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Sarah Dunant

Kim Edwards

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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


Kate Flora

Lynn Wayne photo
Sir James George Frazer

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
James Gaitis

Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
E. C. Gibson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

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

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Granger

Courtesy Zossima Press.
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Kathleen Cunningham Guler

Jerry M. Gutlon

Tyler Gardner
Jennifer Haigh

photo: Asia Kepka
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Oscar Hijuelos

Tony Hillerman

Paul Hindemith

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
John Hollander

Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Shirley Jackson

Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bret Anthony Johnston

Ben Jonson

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

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Immanuel Kant

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Joshua Keil

Jack Kerouac

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Milan Kundera

Anne Lamott

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
John Lennon

Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C. S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Steve Luxenberg

Courtesy of The Washington Post
Niccolò Machiavelli

Nancy Madore

Gabriel García Márquez

Steve Martini

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Robert McCrum

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Joe Meno

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Bruce M. 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.)
Arthur Miller

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

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

Wikipédia France
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Vladīmir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Gananath Obeyesekere

Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere. Photo byDenise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Scott O'Dell

Stewart O'Nan

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James Patterson

Marisha Pessl

Henry Petroski

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Christine de Pisan

from Wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienDavid Poyer

Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Francine Prose

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Mary Renault

Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
Theodore Roethke

J. K. Rowling

Sir William Howard Russell

Photo circa 1861-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02458)
Peter Sagal

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

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jean-Paul Sartre

Sir Walter Scott

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
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 ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Maria Shriver

California Office of the Governor
Efrem Sigel

Shel Silverstein

Paullina Simons

Mel Cain
Robert Slentz-Kesler

Betty Smith

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

U.S. White House Biographical Photo
Rick Smolan

Robert Scoble
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Geoffrey R. Stone

Photo by Lilithcat
Gottfried von Strassburg

Sloane Tanen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mother Teresa

Henry David Thoreau

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Lionel Trilling

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
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Arthur Edward Waite

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

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

Tracey Nolan

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Thornton Wilder

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

2004 Eric Lindbloom
John Williams

Tobias Wolff

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)
Marilyn Yalom

Reid Yalom
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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