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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Pamela Aidan

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)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Anjali Banerjee

Photograph by Carol Ann Morris
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Stephanie Barron

Sebastian Barry

Saul Bellow

David Benioff

Linda Berdoll

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Judy Blume

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Vincent Bugliosi J.D.

Eye on Books
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Chelsea Cain

Truman Capote

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Janet Skeslien Charles

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Paulo Coelho

Reed Farrel Coleman

Colette

from Wikipedia
Patricia Cornwell

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kiran Desai

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas père

Kim Edwards

T. S. Eliot

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Joshua Ferris

Helen Fielding

Janet Fitch

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Jonathan Franzen

Lynn Freed

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
James Frey

Alan Furst

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Elizabeth Gilbert

Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Leigh Ledare
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Michael Gruber

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
John Hart

Abigail Seymour Photography
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Aleksandar Hemon

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Susan Hubbard

Zora Neale Hurston

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

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
David Ignatius

Library of Congress
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Sigrid Estrada
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Giuseppe di. Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Laura Lippman

Bret Lott

Courtesy of the author
Robert Ludlum

Lisa Lutz

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Daphne Du Maurier

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Cody McFadyen

Emma Mclaughlin

Dinaw Mengestu

Blair Feathers
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Rohinton Mistry

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Margaret Mitchell

Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Irene Nemirovsky

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Scott O'Dell

Tawni O'Dell

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

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

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Dave Pelzer

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Francine Prose

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Thomas Pynchon

Anna Quindlen

Frederick Ramsay

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Kathy Reichs

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Marilynne Robinson

J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Photo by Hayward Wilkerson
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
J.D. Salinger

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
John Steinbeck

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

Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tsu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

Elena Seibert
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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