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Edwin Abbot

From Wikipedia
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Lloyd Alexander

Aaron Allston

photo taken by Larry D. Moore; from Wikimedia Commons
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
K.J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Kim Antieau

Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Catherine Asaro

John Cannizzo
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
James M. Barrie

T. A. Barron

Christopher Barzak

Nebula nominee Christopher Barzak
with editor Liz Gorinsky at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganL. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Jeremy Bentham

John G. Betancourt

Jgbetancourt
Holly Black

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Nicholas Blake

John Burlinson
M. F. Bloxam

Jorge Luis Borges

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gary A. Braunbeck

Lucy A. Snyder
Richard Brautigan

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Herbie Brennan

Peter V. Brett

Luigi Novi
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
David Brin

By R. Feist
Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dee Brown

Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Abigail Van Buren

Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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)
Richard Burton

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

Jim Butcher

Francelia Butler

Francelia Butler, Halloween 1990, Mansfield Hollow, Conn.
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Robert W. Chambers

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
G. K. Chesterton

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Agatha Christie

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

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Allan Cole

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Cid Corman

Paul Cornell

Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
Greg Costikyan

Miss Mulock

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Marion Cunningham

Jeremiah Curtin

Curtin in December 1905
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)
John Dalmas

Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Peter David

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Lester (ed.) Del Ray

Troy Denning

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

Charles Dickens

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

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Editors of Reader's Digest

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

chitradivakaruni.com
Stephen R. Donaldson

Sara Douglass

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Alexander Dumas

Dave Duncan

www.Facebook.com
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Dave (ed.) Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Phyllis Eisenstein

Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
Euripides

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

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
David Farland

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Paul Di Filippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Ian Fleming

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
James George Frazer

C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Esther Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons

Neil Gaiman

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
David Gemmell

Steve Gerber

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Seth Godin

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Sue Grafton

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

from Wikipedia
Jo Graham

Robert Walters
Ulysses S. Grant

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

Colin Greenland

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Ursula K. Le Guin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Lori Handeland

Courtesy of Lori Handeland.
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
David G. (ed.) Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia

Simon Haynes

Simon Haynes
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
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)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Alfred (ed.) Hitchcock

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

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Houarner

Linda Addison
Robert Ervin Howard

Sir. Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
L. Ron Hubbard

Tanya Huff

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Fannie Hurst

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Brian Jacques

Al Jaffee

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
John Jakes

Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Peter James

Steven (ed.) Jones

Catriona Sparks
Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
Robert Jordan

Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Jerry Bauer
C. G. Jung

Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins

Brian Keene

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
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.
Jack Kerouac

Hank Ketcham

Inkpot Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Mary Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Stephen King

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

Alicia Kirschenheiter

Joe Klein

Dean Koontz

Michael Kurland

Photo by Burser
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Tim F. LaHaye

Louis L'Amour

Glenda Larke

Stephen R. Lawhead

Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Deborah LeBlanc

Gentry Lee

Image credit: NASA/JPL
(nasa.gov)
Harper Lee

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

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Fritz Leiber

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

William Wesen
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Matthew Lesko

David Letterman

Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
C.S. Lewis

Brad Linaweaver

David Harmon

Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Jack London

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Eric van Lustbader

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.)
Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Editors of MAD Magazine

beneneuman and the staff of Mad Magazine.
photo by
beneneuman on Flickr
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Richard Matheson

Anne McCaffrey

Robert McCrum

Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Patricia A. Mckillip

Adrianna Dane
Rand McNally

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Michell

John Michell
Jack Miles

Columbia University
Margaret Millar

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
A.A. Milne

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

Mary Ann Mitchell

Courtesy of the author.
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

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

John Burlinson
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Norman Murphy

Norman Murphy at the 2007 Wodehouse Society convention. Photo by
Philar Shamim
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
New York Public Library

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Gareth Nix

William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
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/
Tristan Parrish

James (ed.) Patterson

Jaroslav (editor) Pelikan

Tamora Pierce

H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Chaim Potok

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
The Marian Movement of Priests

Statue of the Virgin in Marble, St. Stephen's Chruch, Nancy, France. Photo by user Vassil / Wikimedia Commons.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
Robert Rankin

James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mike (ed.) Resnick

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rudolf (trans.) Ritsema

Rudolf Ritsema, Casa Eranos, December 2004
William P. Robertson

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Sax Rohmer

Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
J. K. Rowling

Gary Alan Ruse

Photo by Ed Gorin
Gary Russell

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Brandon Sanderson

Douglas Sarine

John Saul

J. Scott Savage

Steven (ed.) Savile

Mari Adkins, June 26, 2006
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
John Scalzi

Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Ken Scholes

Catriona Sparks
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
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 ArtJeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Robert (ed.) Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

John Burlinson
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Art (ed.) Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
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)
Adin Steinsaltz

WIkipedia
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
R. L. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
S.M. Stirling

Peter Straub

Victoria Strauss

copyright Victoria Strauss used by permission.
Whitley Strieber

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Kōji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
They Might Be Giants

Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Kelsey Timmerman

James Tiptree Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Dalton Trumbo

Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun Tzu

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
John Varley

Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Mort Walker

Licensing Show International 2007, photo by Lampbane
Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish" (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Walter Wangerin Jr.

Lawrence Watt-Evans

by Julie Evans, copyright 2006, all rights
reserved, used by permission.
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames White

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
david wilkerson

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.)
Sheila (ed.) Williams

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Tad Williams

Walter Jon Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
F. Paul Wilson

Robert C. Wilson

Robert De Maio

P. G. Wodehouse

Gary Wolf

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Chelsa quinn yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Frank Yerby

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-115899
Jane Yolen

Richard Zacks

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Roger Zelanzny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Sarah Zettel

Jennifer Schmidt (cropped)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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