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Dean Acheson

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Lloyd Alexander

Horatio Alger

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)
Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Aristophanes

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
St. Augustine

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Dave Barry

Dennis Batchelder

Gregory Benford

Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Jorge Luis Borges

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Willa Cather

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Oswald Chambers

G. K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Randolph S. Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolph, and grandson, Winston in coronation robes: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05370)
Winston S. Churchill

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Philip K. Dick

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Stephen R. Donaldson

Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Dr. Eamon Duffy

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

from Wikipedia
John Eldredge

http://www.ransomedheart.com/images/rh_skin/johnEldredge.jpg
Sara Evans

Paula S. Fass

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

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

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Eric Flint

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Alan Dean Foster

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

Pat Frank

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

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

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst


Neil Gaiman

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
William Gibson

Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver, c. 1986. Photo by Ashley Van Haeften.
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nadine Gordimer

G. R. Grove

Os Guinness

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.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Robert Harris

Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

Rolland Hein

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.
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
Tony Hillerman

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Joan Hoff

Montana State University
E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

L. Ron Hubbard

Walter H. Hunt

Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
P D James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksSteven James

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.)
Jerome K. Jerome

K. W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
James Joyce

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

Ross King

Stephen King

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

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz
Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueStephen R. Lawhead

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
William E. Leuchtenburg

Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
C.S. Lewis

Federico Garcia Lorca

Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
C. S. Marks

Publicity photo
Paul J. McAuley

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Alister E. McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

A. A. Milne

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

Daniel Keys Moran

Daniel Keys Moran
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
George Orwell

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

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
James Patterson

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Jerry Pournelle


Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
T.A. Pratt

Photo by Heather Shaw
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Malcolm Pryce

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Robert Rankin

Robert Reed

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

J.K. Rowling

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Edward Rutherfurd

Mari Sandoz

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Henry R. Schoolcraft

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Roger Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Allen Steele

Geoffrey A. Landis
John Steinbeck

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

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

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
George R. Stewart

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

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Whitley Strieber

Lee Strobel

Charles Stross

John M. Synge

From Wikipedia
G. P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
John Kennedy Toole

Gregory of Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Various

Marie Vassiltchikov

molodguard.ru
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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

Jim Wallis

Walter Wangerin jr

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Ian Watson

www.ianwatson.info
David Weber

H.G. Wells

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

Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Walt Whitman

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Oscar Wilde

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

2004 Eric Lindbloom

Tad Williams

Tennessee Williams

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

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Bob Woodward

Ravi Zacharias

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.)
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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