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Richard Abanes

From Author Website
Forrest J. Ackerman

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Cherry Adair

Lara Adrian

(c) Lara Adrian
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Lloyd Alexander


Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Catherine Anderson

catherineanderson.com, no credit given
Tina Anderson

Tina Anderson 2007
Ilona Andrews

Lori Balfe
Anonymous

Pietro Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Sean Astin

Sean Astin and family (Stefan Servos, 2003).

Jane Austen

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

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Sir Robert Baden-Powell

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

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
P. T. Barnum

"Barnum and Commodore Nut", photo by Charles DeForest Fredricks
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J.M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Gregory Bassham

Brian Bates

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
George Beahm

Simone de Beauvoir

H. Belloc

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

Picture from Word Wenches website
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly

Judy Blume

Robert Bly

Nic McPhee

Ray Bradbury

Marion Z. Bradley

Gloria G. Brame

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Ian Brodie


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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Terry Brooks


Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Mary Brunton

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

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Octavia Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Rachel Caine

Photo by Sharon Sams-Adams
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsay Campbell

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Barbara Cartland

Loretta Chase

From LorettaChase.com
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Susanna Clarke

C Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Mrs Craik

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

Peter David

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ernest Dimnet

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Austin Dobson

Image from Collected poems (1897) by Austin Dobson
Christina Dodd

Stephen Donaldson

Ignatius Donnelly

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ariel Dorfman


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Barbara Ehrenreich

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

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
Harlan Ellison

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
J. Sheridan le Fanu


Christine Feehan

Jude Fisher

Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
James Elroy Flecker

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
John Foxe

Line engraving first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monmuents (Foxe's Book of Martyrs). By George Glover (fl. 1625-1650)
Katherine Frank

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Thomas Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
John Gay

Jean George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Jennifer St. Giles

Photograph by Jennifer Berry/Studio 16
Terry Gilliam

Sweden, March 1985,
promoting 'Brazi"
(Credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Gail Godwin

Christopher Golden

William Goldman

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

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
John Granger

Courtesy Zossima Press.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
David Grayson

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-36754)
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.)
Lady Gregory

Image from Irish plays and playwrights (1913) by Cornelius Weygandt
Sir George Grey

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

The Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Svend Grundtvig

Wikipedia Commons
Ursula Le Guin

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Edith Hamilton


Laurell K. Hamilton


Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert Heinlein

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Laurence Housman

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
John Howe

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of illustrator John Howe, not Rev. John Howe.
Barry Humphries

WTCA
Thomas Ingoldsby

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

Eloisa James

Amanda Stevenson Lupke

Iris Johansen

Susan Johnson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Wynn Jones

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Stephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Terry Jones

Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
C. G. Jung

Sheila Kaye-Smith

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

wikipedia

Richard Bachman

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Walter Koenig

ComicCon Dallas, March 17, 2007, photo by Kelly Roberts
Manuel Komroff

Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Dean R. Koontz

Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Alan C. Kors

Alan C. Kors, receiving the National Humanities Medal, 2005. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Dr Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Betina Krahn

coutesy of the author
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
Jayne Ann Krentz

George Frederick Kunz

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

wikipedia
Edward William Lane

from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Edward Lasker

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

photo by Sigrid Estrada
Janet Leigh

Janet Lee (Center) with daughters Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis
Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Flickr)
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C.S. Lewis

John Lewis

John R. Lewis (b1940) ~ U.S. House of Representatives History Office
Matthew 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)
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Marjorie M. Liu

Photo by user pinguino k / Flickr
Peter Curtis

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

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Percival Lowell

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-94153)
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
George MacDonald

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 Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Charles Mackay

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Cotton Mather

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy (photo by Jane Anderson Jones)
Geraldine McCaughrean

Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
John Michell

John Michell
A.A. Milne

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

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Hayao Miyazaki

Thomas Schulz
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Philip D. Morehead

Wikipedia
Edward S. Morse

From the archives of the Museum of Science, Boston
Viggo Mortensen

Mortensen at the world premiere of "The Fellowship of the Ring" in Wellington, New Zealand. Photo by
Stefan ServosDavid Murray

Tom Marcello, 1977
Musashi Miyamoto

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Paul Newman

TriviaKing
Sharan Newman

Whitney Hall
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Inazo Nitobe

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06329)
Diana Norman

Sharyn November

Flickr user jessamyn

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganEdna O'Brien

Peter O'Connor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ambroise Paré

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Valerie Parv

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Patrick

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

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.)
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips webpage photo cropped
Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto

Marty Heitner
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Gary Pomerantz

Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Mary Jo Putney

Franco
Michael Pye


Julia Quinn

Rex Rystedt/Seattlephoto.com
Francois Rabelais

Aaron Ralston

Piers Paul Read

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
George Romero

(c) Elizabeth Talbott

J.K. Rowling

Gary Russell

Miguel De Cervantes

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

V. Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
The Marquis de Sade

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)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Chris Salewicz

Tami Peterson
R. A. Salvatore


Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)

Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Hal Schuster

Chicago Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Sir Walter Scott

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

Andy Serkis

Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
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 Shatner

Maggie Shayne

Courtesy of Maggie Shayne.
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sharon Shinn

Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dennis Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Somtow Sucharitkul

S.P. Somtow
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
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)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Gottfried von Strassburg

Peter Straub

Darin Strauss

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Whitley Strieber

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Snorre Sturlason

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Koji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray

J.R.R. Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Keith Topping

Peter Tremayne

The International Sister Fidelma Society
G.B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Elizabeth Vaughan

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Arthur Edward Waite

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

Licensing Show International 2007, photo by Lampbane
Izaak Walton

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

John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Emma Campbell Webster

Sara Dunn
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFrancis West

Richard Weston

Welsh School of Architecture
Post Wheeler

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
E.B. White

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

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Charles Williams

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Ian Wilson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Wilson

www.chrismsaunders.com
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Dean Young

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