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Edward Abbey

CHINUA ACHEBE

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Sherman Alexie

Antonia Allegra

Stephen E. Ambrose

Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Sarah Andrews

Anonymous

Sergio Aragones

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arrian

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Ellis Avery

Bruce Babbitt

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Neil Bartlett

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
David Benioff

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Wendell Berry

Tom Bissell

Photo by Greg Martin
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Robert Bolt

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

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mark Bowden

Donna Ball

www.donnaaball.net
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Larry Brown

Photographed by Bruce Newman
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Corinna Lynette Byer
Richard Evelyn Byrd

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-32880)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Truman Capote

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Ron Carlson

Caleb Carr

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

Mark de Castrique

Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

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

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

Paulo Coelho

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sneed B. Collard

Photo by Amy Ratzlaf
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Steve Coll

Center for American Progress
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Dennis Cooper

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Trevor Corson

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Michael Craft

Author's photograph
Alan Cumming

Credit: Tony Shek, 2005, Toronto, Ont.
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Richard Dawkins

H. G. E. Degas

Self-portrait, circa 1854-1855
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Tomie dePaola

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Reader's Digest editors

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

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Mark Doty

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Jonathan Engel

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
J. Sheridan LeFanu

William Faulkner

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

wikipedia
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Matthew Van Fleet

Brian Stanton
Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

Michael Thomas Ford

Photo by Michael Thomas Ford
C. S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Harry G. Frankfurt

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

George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Alexandra Fuller

Alan Furst

Neil Gaiman

Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Adele Geras

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
Gide Andre

1893
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jim Grimsley

Emory University
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edith Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Joseph Hansen

Donald Harington

DonaldHarington.com
Heinrich Harrer

Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Brent Hartinger

Photo by Tim Cathersal
John Hart

Abigail Seymour Photography
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Richard Heinberg

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
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)
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.
John Hersey

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
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)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Jack Higgins

Tony Hillerman

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

Nick Hornby

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Silas House

Photo by Cheyenne House
Tanya Huff

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Scott Huler

Random House
Tab Hunter

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Charles Jackson

Carl Van Vechten
Cheryl Alters Jamison

with Bill Jamison
photo by Mary Jablonsky
Craig Johnson

Courtesy of the author
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Robert Jordan

Alvin M. Josephy

Jerry Bauer
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Lloyd Kahn

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Jack Kerouac

Sue Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Dean King

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Russell Kirkpatrick

Russell Kirkpatrick
Aaron Krach

Aaron Krach
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
Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
George Lakoff

Louis L'Amour

David LaRochelle

Courtesy of David LaRochelle
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
David Leddick

Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Donna Leon

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Brian Lies

Brian Lies (Pretending to be a bat) ~ Photo by Laurel Keith
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
David Liss

John Long

David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
editors of Saveur magazine

Saveur
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

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

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Anne McCaffrey

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Jill McCorkle

Tom Rankin
Sharyn McCrumb

Carson McCullers

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

Thomas McGuane

Audrey Hall
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Cesar Millan

Alan Weissman
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Karen Miller

Mary GT Webber
Kyle Mills

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
New Skete Monks

New Skete Monastery in the Snow. Photo by user Temp / Wikipedia.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Chris Mooney

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Thurston Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Clay Morgan

Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Farley Mowat

Dallas Murphy

© Jerry Bauer
Nasdijj

rrllmm392
James L. Nelson

James Nelson website, picture enhanced by vintage_books. Permission received to copy, enhance and upload photo during phone conversation November 17, 2008.
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Jennifer Niven

Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Barack Obama

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Nuala Ofaolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ondaatje Michael

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
George Orwell

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

Charlie Hopkinson
Robert B. Parker

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/images/photo_pups.jpg
Dale Peck

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
George P. Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Julie Anne Peters

Courtesy of the author
Nathaniel Philbrick

Jan Pienkowski

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
David Pogue

Marco Polo

Gary M. Pomerantz

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Associated Press Staff

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Frederic Prokosch

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

Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Aron Ralston


Ron Rash

Western Carolina University
Lou Reed

Brave New Films, October 16, 2006
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kathy Reichs

Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Mary Renault

Christopher Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.

Tom Robbins

Henry M. Robert

photographer unknown
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney (Left) with Congressman Vernon Ehlers (Official U.S. Congress Website)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Brian Ruckley

Brian Ruckley
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Joe Sacco

Photo by Matt Musselman
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Barney Saltzberg

Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jeremy Scahill

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Ernest Thompson Seton

1901 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-103952)
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Sir Ernest Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Jim Shepard

Barry Goldstein
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Robert Silverburg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dennis Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic

K. M. Soehnlein

Photo by Jake Torrens
Dana Stabenow

Les Standiford

Virginia Wells
Ralph Steadman

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
wallace stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Sarah Susanka

Strawbridge Photography
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Alan Tennant

© 2004 Dan Thompson
Lewis Thomas

Lowell Thomas

Sepp Ruschp, Heinrich Harrer, Lowell Thomas and Chiharu Igaya: Image ©
ÖNB/WienHenry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J R R Tolkien

Ian W. Toll

US Naval War College, Oct. 15, 2008 (credit: U.S. Navy photo by Stephen Rebello)
John Kennedy Toole

Pete Townshend

Ian MacIsaac, March 9th, 2007
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)
Dalton Trumbo

Scott Turow

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Lao Tzu

Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
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)
Kurt Vonnegut

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
David Weber

Alan Weisman

Wendy Werris

Photo by John Smart
Janwillem Van de Wetering

E. B. White

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

Walt Whitman

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

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

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

John Morgan Wilson

Christopher Oakley
Judd Winnick

Photo by Wikipedia User Nightscream
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Editors of World Almanac

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

Marion Ettlinger
Marly Youmans

Cory Doctorow, January 18, 2006
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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