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M.L.N. Hanover

Catriona Sparks
Mario Acevedo

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Roger Macbride Allen

U.S. Department of State
Aaron Allston

photo taken by Larry D. Moore; from Wikimedia Commons
A. ALVAREZ

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

"Anonymous," sculpture by Miklós Ligeti, 1903, Budapest. Photo by R. Grau.
Piers Anthony

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Michael Arnzen

photo (c) 2005 by Renate Muller, used with permission
Keri Arthur

Courtesy of Keri Arthur.
Catherine Asaro

John Cannizzo
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Marcus Aurelius with an introduction by Andy Fiala

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Ingeborg Bachmann

Tony Ballantyne

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J. M. Barrie

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gregory Benford

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Algeron Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fresco by Andrea del Castagno (c. 1450)
Jorge Luis Borges

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gary A. Braunbeck

Lucy A. Snyder
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Raymond Buckland

Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Anthony Burgess

Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
George Carlin

Lewis Carroll

Paul Chadwick

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Charles W. Chesnutt

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

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Douglas Clegg

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, astronaut, cropped version of official NASA photograph.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Aleister Crowley

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Charles Darwin

Lithograph - Karl Klietsch / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRichard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Peter David

Jamie Delano

Troy Denning

Troy Denning, Lucas Comics & Games, 2007.
Photo by user torre.elena / flickr.
Charles Dickens

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sara Douglass

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Robert Dunbar

author of THE PINES and THE SHORE
Stephen Dunn

Columbia University
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
T. S. Eliot

Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

P. N. Elrod

www.vampwriter.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Sam Enthoven

Self-portrait by the author!
Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
Dave Wolverton

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jessie Redmon Fauset

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

Georges Seguin
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
L.L. Foster

Courtesy Lori Foster.
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Anna Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Adam Gallardo

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
Henry Louis Gates

Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Seth Godin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

William Golding

Ivan Goncharov

Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Graham Greene

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.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Alexander Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Geraldine Pinch

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Mo Hayder

Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hermann Hesse

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

Jaqen
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Robin Hobb

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert E. Howard

L. Ron Hubbard

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Charlie Huston

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Henry James

K.W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Stephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Brian Keene

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Nate Kenyon

Photo by Harrison Malec Brown
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Ken Kesey

Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Robert Kirkman

Russell Kirkpatrick

Russell Kirkpatrick
Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
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
Jim Lee

Gage Skidmore
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
C.S. Lewis

Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Jeph Loeb

Jack London

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

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Jonathan Maberry

Sara Jo West
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

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Wendy Mass

Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Anne Mccaffrey

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

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Dennis Miller

Karen Miller

Mary GT Webber
John Milton

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

Courtesy of the author.
Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard K. Morgan

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Flannery O'Connor

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
John Passarella

Photograph by Andrea Passarella
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Jennifer Pelland

Photo taken by Andy Benson, 2007.
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Stefan Petrucha

Sylvia Plath

Plato

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2007
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Cherie Priest

Photo by Cherie Priest
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Kat Richardson

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
James Clemens

J. K. Rowling

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
Via
WikipediaMarquis 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)
Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
J. D. Salinger

R.A. Salvatore

Brandon Sanderson

John Saul

John Scalzi

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Karl Schroeder

DaVe Hogg
Cyril Scott

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

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Gail Simone

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jason Sizemore

Jason Sizemore (on left). Mari Adkins, June 23, 2006
Kristine Smith

Studio West
Tom Sniegoski

Official author photograph - Tom Sniegoski and his dog, Mulder
Lucy A. Snyder

Michelle Pendergrass
Lynn Abercrombie

Steven Spruill

photo by Nancy Spruill
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Sean Stewart

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Greg Stolze

Photo by the author.
J. Michael Straczynski

At the 2007 New York Comic-Con.
Peter Straub

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Karen Traviss

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Thomas Tryon

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

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

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Jeff Vandermeer

Various

Jhonen Vasquez

SLG signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Rick Veitch

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Jo Walton

Paul Watkins

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
E. B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

from Wikipedia
Charles Williams

Sean Williams

Cat Sparks
Tad Williams

Walter Jon Williams

Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
D. Harlan Wilson

F. Paul Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Judd Winnick

Photo by Wikipedia User Nightscream
Monica Wood

monicawood.com
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
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