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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Jean M. Auel

St. Augustine

Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Russell Baker

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Dave Barry

Samuel Beckett

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Brian Bouldrey

Brian Perkinson
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
RAY BRADBURY

Richard Brautigan

Encyclopedia Britannica

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Thomas Bulfinch

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Burgess

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Frederick Busch

Eye on Books
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
John Chaffee

Jerry Bauer
Gary Chapman

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Mary Chesnut

Fromm Wikipedia
Neil Chethik

Photograph by Beverly Chethik
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Martin Clark

© 2004 Tate Photography
Bob Costas

President George W. Bush speaks with Bob Costas of NBC Sports during an interview Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, while attending the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. White House photo by Eric Draper
(whitehouse.gov)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Charles Darwin

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

defenselink.mil
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
READER'S DIGEST

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Stephen Donaldson

Maureen Dowd

Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
M. C. Escher

Douglas FAIRBANKS

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Benjamin Franklin

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

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
James Frey

Neil Gaiman

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Nikolai Gogol

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

Credit: Sylvain Despretz (Wikipedia)
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Joyce Esersky Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
ROBERT GRAVES

The William Graves Collection
Michelle Y. Green

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr.

Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Sir Basil (edited by Adrian Liddell Hart) Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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)
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.
Herodotus

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Adolf Hitler

Hal Holbrook

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Cropped/Flickr)
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jack Huberman

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Samuel Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
HENRY JAMES

Wikipedia
Peter James

Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Philipp Keel

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Ron Kovic

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1990.
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
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jerome Lawrence

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

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

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

jack london

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

Charles MacKay

Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Bill Maher

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Christopher; Wright Marlowe, Louis B. (editor) and Virginia La Mar

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

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Matthew McKay

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Rand McNally and Company

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A Michener

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

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)
A. A. Milne

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

Wikipédia France
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Vladimir Nabokov

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

David Shankbone, September 2007
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Sten F. Odenwald

Eugene O'Neill

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Greg Palast

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles Panati

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
James Patterson

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Philip C. Plait

ensceptico
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Helen Prejean

Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Joel R. Primack

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Henry Rollins

Photograph by Emma Farrer
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
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)
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jon Scieszka

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
(Flickr attribution license)
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 ArtMichael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Mordecai Siegal

Photograph by Shel Secunda
Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Dr. Benjamin Spock

MDCarchives
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Whitley Strieber

Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
J.R.R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Frank Warren

Eye on Books
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

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

Library of Congress
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Photo by Wikipedia User Nightscream
Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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