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Nick Abadzis

Damian Cugley
Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Diana Abu-Jaber

Scott Eason
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Cesar Aira

Chingiz Aitmatov

Andreas Zak
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Suad Amiry

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Bonnie S.Anderson

Ivo Andric

Graham Annable

Created by Geoffrey Mason
Anonymous

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Helen Ashton

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


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer W.H. Auden

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Shalom Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mary Austin

Charles Fletcher Lummis
Trezza Azzopardi

Ingeborg Bachmann

Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Enid Bagnold

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

Dorothy Baker

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

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sebastian Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Priya Basil

Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Paul Beatty

www.dentontaylor.com
Brooklyn Lit Festival 2008
Simone De Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Martin Bell

Saul Bellow

Tonino Benacquista

David Benioff

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tony Benn

Anti-war demo, London, March 19, 2005 (photo credit: JK the Unwise, Wikipedia user)
Thomas Berger

Suzanne Berne

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Leonard Blusse

Prof.dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud-Alblas
Philip Bobbitt

Matthew Fuller
David Bodanis

Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Bracewell

Ray Bradbury

Billy Bragg

Borders on Oxford Street, London, 2003
Richard Brautigan

Ian Bremmer

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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)
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Daphne A. Brooks

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
Ken Bruen

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Stephen Budiansky

Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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 E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Cambridge

1913
Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
David Carkeet

www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/
J. L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Roger; Sawyer Casement, Roger (editor)

Image from The Trial of Sir Roger Casement (1917) edited by George H. Knott
Ruy Castro

Willa Cather

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

Sarah Caudwell

John Burlinson
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Michel du Cille
Upamanyu Chatterjee

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Chekhov

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

Hayden Childs

Margaret Cho

Denise Chong

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Stefan Chwin

Mariusz Kubik
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Susanna Clarke

J M Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Museum Ludwig Cologne

South Entrance, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Photo by user Raymond / Wikimedia Commons.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Maryse Conde

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Denis Cotter

Jörg Köster
Colin Cotterill

self portrait by Colin Cotterill
Jim Crace

Hart Crane

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
David Crystal

Barry Cunliffe

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Romeo Dallaire

Joshua Sherurcij
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Lucy Cavender
Avram Davidson

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis

Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
JEFFERY DEAVER

Antonio G Colombo
E. M. Delafield

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Delillo Don

Guy Delisle

Luigi Novi
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

G. V. Desani

Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Ani DiFranco

photo by Danny Clinch
Fatou Diome

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Tahar Djaout

Tahar Djaout, 1980. Photo by Michel-georges bernard / Wikimedia Commons.
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Dobyns

E. L. Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
John Donne

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

Eye on Books
Ariel Dorfman

John W. Dower

Columbia University
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Clare Dudman

Credit: Sandra Johnson
(AP Watt)
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Dr. Eamon Duffy

Du Fu

From Wikipedia
Fuchsia Dunlop

Tang Yuewu
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Mark Dunn

Gerald Durrell

Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Jean Echenoz

Umberto Eco

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

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

Columbia University
Imogen Edwards-Jones

Ake Edwardson

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers [ed]

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Roger Jon Ellory

William Empson

John Burlinson
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Isobel English

Garth Ennis

pinguino k
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Gyorgy Faludy

Sheridan Le Fanu

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Dan Fesperman

Orlando Figes

Dorothy Canfield

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

Edward FitzGerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Alan Fletcher

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Aminatta Forna

Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Christopher Fowler

Edith Henrietta Fowler

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

Maggie Hannan
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Alexander Frater

Anne Miller
Celia Fremlin

Patrick French

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Brian Friel

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

Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Rivka Galchen

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Jane Gardam

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Martin Gayford

Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Nelson George

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

PAUL GILROY

Gipi

Joe Zattere
Susan Glaspell

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Gail Godwin

Glen David Gold

Ted Gorton

Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Almudena Grandes


Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Alasdair Gray

Aliza Green

Graham Greene

Julian Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Philippe Grimbert

Photo by user Luctor / Wikimedia Commons
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Olga Grushin

Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha at the US Consulate, Chennai
Ursula K. Le Guin

Romesh Gunesekera

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thom Gunn

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Batya Gur

Photo by user Casaresricardo / Wikimedia Commons
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rawi Hage

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
James L. Haley

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Masha Hamilton

Photo by Briana Orr
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thich Nhat Hanh

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Robert Harris

Aidan Hartley

James Brabazon
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Jean Hatzfeld

G. W. Hawkes

Taken by laytonwoman3rd May 2003
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Gilbert Hernandez

Comiquero.com
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Christopher Hibbert

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Eric J Hobsbawm

E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

Nalo Hopkinson

Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Attia Hosain

A.E. Housman

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
W.H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Kevin Huizenga

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Adine Sagalyn Opale
Henrik Ibsen

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

Martin Indyk

DOD Photo by Robert D. Ward
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Ian Jack [ed.]

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Shirley Jackson

Jane Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Randall Jarrell

Richard Jefferies

Wikipedia
Tahar Ben Jelloun


Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
Philip Jenkins

Courtesy of Philip Jenkins
Liz Jensen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Peter Jinks

Lucia Ortisi
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke (right) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008. Photo by Manfred Werner / Wikimedia Commons.
David K. Jordan

David K. Jordan (UCSD)
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
Ruchir Joshi

James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Byron Katie

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joanna Kavenna

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Margaret Kennedy

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

Kent wearing a coat and vest, annotated on reverse: "Rockwell Kent, author of "Wilderness", Putnam", photographer unknown.
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
Jack Kerouac

Gerald Kersh

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

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Elias Khoury

Suz
Derek Kirk Kim

Photo by Lori Matsumoto.
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Ross King

Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Khalid Kishtainy

af.mil
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholas D. Kristof

Gyula Krúdy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Peter Kuper

Luigi Novi
Akira Kurosawa

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

Photo © Elena Seibert
Laila Lalami

Photo by Sara Corwin
Margo Lanagan

Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Halldor Laxness

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Chang-rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Nam Le

Photo © 2007 Joanne Chan
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo Levi

Amy Levy

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Robert Lewis

Marina Lewycka

A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Michael Light

Torgny Lindgen

Hannibal
Sven Lindqvist

Peter Linebaugh

M. Brooks
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Robert Littell

Philippe Mats
Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Norah Lofts

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

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

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Xavier De Maistre

Portrait by Charles Steuben
Louis Maistros

Photo by Booker Maistros, age 7
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
David Maraniss

Stephen Marche

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Walter de la Mare

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

Photo © 2005 Elena Seibert
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

Richard Marsh

Charles Kiernan
Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Jack Matlock

Katarina Mazetti

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Carson McCullers

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

Alan Peebles
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Andrew McGahan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Maureen F. McHugh

Adrian McKinty

Colin McPhee

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 4, 1935 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103711)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Diane Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
China Mieville


Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Sam Miller

Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

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

Anchee Min

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Pankaj Mishra

Rohinton Mistry


David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Vilhelm Moberg

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

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Baron de

Wikipédia France
Susanna Moodie

Library and Archives Canada
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Terezia Mora

Don Manfredo
Elaine Morgan

Carl Philip Moritz

Portrait by Friedrich Rehberg (1758-1835)
Jan Morris

Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
JOHN MORTIMER

Farnoosh Moshiri

Kate Mosse

Harry Mulisch

Karin Muller

japanlandonline.com
Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Vali Nasr

Natsume Soseki

Jawaharlal Nehru

Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Steve Niles

Jennifer Niven

Amelie Nothomb

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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