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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Adams (editor)

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Boris Akunin

Ken Alder

Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Steve Almond

Eric Ambler (introduction)

John Burlinson
Kingsley Amis (editor)

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

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

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Neil Armstrong

Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin
nix.larc.nasa.gov
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

From Wikipedia
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
L. A. Banks

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Linda Barnes

Photo by Lynn Wayne
Stephanie Barron

T. A. Barron

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
John Barth

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d’ Eon de Beaumont

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

Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Saul Bellow

Stephen Vincent Benét

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

E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. C. Bentley

Linda Berdoll

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Larry Bird

Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Holly Black

Nicholas Blake

John Burlinson
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
William Bligh

"Midshipman William Bligh"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Donna Boyd

www.donnaaball.net
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Kay Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Fernand Braudel

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

Herbie Brennan

Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Michael Broadbent

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
Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Edna Buchanan

Photograph by Jim Virga
Art Buchwald

Christopher Buckley

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
John Bunyan

Edmund Burke

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)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Jim Butcher

Samuel. Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
William Byrd

from Wikipedia
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Julius Caesar

public domain
James M. Cain

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

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Rachel L Carson

from Wikipedia
Howard Carter

Willa Cather

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

Bennett A. Cerf (editor)

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Karen Chance

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
G. K. Chesterton

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

wikipedia
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Lee Child

Cinda Williams Chima

Photo by Pamela Z. Daum
Frank Cho

Gage Skidmore
Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
William Clark

Portrait of William Clark (1770-1838) by Charles Willson Peale, 1810
Carl von Clausewitz

Richard Cohen

British Veterens Fencing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Marc Connelly

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 17, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-103960)
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Trevor Corson

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Miss Mulock

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Barry W. Cunliffe

Gregory Curtis

Photo © 2006 Wyatt McSpadden
Frank Hamilton Cushing

Clive Cussler

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)
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Cecilia Dart-Thornton

CDT
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Peter David

Robertson Davies

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Headquarters Department of the Army

defenselink.mil
Andrew Delbanco

Joyce Ravid
Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Denis Diderot

Joanne Dobson

E.L. Doctorow

Stephen R. Donaldson

John Donne

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

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Gardner Dozois (editor)

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Alexandre Dumas

Finley Peter Dunne

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

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Bob Dylan

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)
Phyllis Eisenstein

George Eliot

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

Aaron J. Elkins

Eye on Books
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
P. F. Chisholm

Cameracraft
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
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
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C.S. Forester

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

R. F. Foster

Dick Francis

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Pat Frank

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

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Harold Frederic

See below.
R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
(AP Watt)
Esther Freisner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressChrisopher Fry

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
David Fulmer

Lance Lipman
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst

Jacques Futrelle

霧木諒二 on Wikipedia
Neil Gaiman

John Lydecker

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Gardner

Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jonathan Gash

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
David Gemmell

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Harry Golden

Tom Walters,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Glen Gold

William Goldman

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

Jerry Bauer
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Neil Grant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene (editor)

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Michael Gruber

Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
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
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Thomas Harriot

Thomas Harriot. Wikimedia Commons.
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Max Hastings (editor)

Stephen W Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney (translator)

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
George Herriman

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Herman Hesse

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

Photo by Mark Bothwell
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

Christopher Hill

Tony Hillerman

James Hilton

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Tami Hoag

(c) Exley Foto Inc.
Robin Hobb

Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Nick Hornby

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Attia Hosain

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Richard Hoyt

Tanya Huff

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksSebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyLisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Ricky Jay

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Baron De Jomini

Stephen Jones (editor)

Catriona Sparks
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Walt Kelly

Courtesy of Michael Barrier
Margaret Kennedy

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Jack Kerouac

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Dean King

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

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

Gail K. Evanari
Thomas Kinsella (translator)

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
W.P. Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Richard Kluger

© 2003 Phyllis Kluger
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Harold Lamb

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

Wikimedia Commons
Stephen R. Lawhead

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Fritz Leiber

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

Pete Souza
John Lescroart

William Mosgrove
David Letterman

Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C. Day Lewis (editor)

John Burlinson
C.S. Lewis

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)
Sinclair Lewis

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

David Lindsay

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Laura Lippman

David Liss

Jack London

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

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
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.)
Charles Mackay

Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Magnus Magnusson (translator)

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Alfred Thayer Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Barry Maitland

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Margaret Maron

John P. Marquand

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

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.)
Ngaio Marsh

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Groucho Marx

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A.E.W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
W Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne Du Maurier

Adrienne Mayor

M. Maskiell
Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Winsor McCay

1906
Robert McCrum

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Fiona McIntosh

Georges Seguin
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Karen Miller

Mary GT Webber
Steven Millhauser

A.A. Milne

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

John Milton

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
C. L. Moore

John Burlinson
Lucy Moore

Edmund Sears Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
John Mortimer

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marcia Muller

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Dallas Murphy

© Jerry Bauer
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Irene Nemirovsky

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Geoff Nicholson

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Garth Nix

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michael Palmer

Robert Roswell Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sara Paretsky

Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Richard North Patterson

Milorad Pavic

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Iain Pears

Ridley Pearson

T. R. Pearson

Photography by T.R. Pearson
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Samuel Pepys

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

Photo © Jon Barandica
Anne Perry

Thomas Perry

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Tamora Pierce

Plautus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Robert Polito (ed.)

Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Diana Preston

Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
David A. Price

© 2003 Simon Bruty
E. Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Ayn Rand

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

Photo by Tim Duncan
Graham Rawle

Kathy Reichs

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Natasha Rhodes

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Sally Ride

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Michael Ridpath

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Michael Robotham

Bob Roll

Photo credit: Robert J. La Verghetta, May 30, 2006
James Clemens

Theodore Roosevelt

Edmond Rostand

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Damon Runyon

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

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Aug. 15, 2006
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Michael Shaara

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William; Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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Mary Shelley

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Jean Shepherd

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

William Tecumseh Sherman

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Murasaki Shikibu,

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Sharon Shinn

David Allen Sibley

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Philip Sidney

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Robert Silverberg

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Upton Sinclair

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Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Martin Cruz Smith

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Lemony Snicket

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Sophocles

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Bram Stoker

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Darin Strauss

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Donna Tartt

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tey. Josephine

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

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Paul Theroux

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E. P. Thompson

James Thomson

James Thurber

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Leo Tolstoy

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Michael Frayn
John Kennedy Toole

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Chicago Tribune

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Scott Turow

Harry Turtledove

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Mark Twain

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Martha Updike
Jules Verne

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Gore Vidal

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Virgil

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Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Susan Vreeland

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Walter Wangerin, Jr.

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Robert Penn Warren

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H. G. Wells

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Stewart Edward White

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