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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Jane Addams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Madeleine K. Albright

from Wikipedia
Louisa May Alcott

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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Bonnie S. Anderson

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Hannah Arendt

KAREN ARMSTRONG

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

Ann Bancroft

Credit: Jonathunder (Wikipedia), 2006,
Rochester, Minnesota
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Simone de Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-08277)
(cropped)
Cheryl Benard

RAND Corporation
Wendell Berry

Benazir Bhutto

Isabella L. Bird

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Tara Brach

photo by Jonathan Foust
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Anne Brontë

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)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Geraldine Brooks

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Frances Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burns

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

Rosalind Went Photography
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Willa Cather

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

John Burlinson
Iris Chang

Sarah Chayes

Kim Chernin

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Colette

from Wikipedia
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
e. e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Beverly Donofrio

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Gerald Durrell

Shirin Ebadi

George Eliot

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

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Leslie Feinberg

Aminatta Forna

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Catherine Friend

Courtesy of Author, Catherine Friend
Robert Frost

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

Margaret Fuller

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

author photo by Hank De Leo
Nikki Gemmell

Franchesco Guidicini
Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Gluckel

Bertha Pappenheim as Glikl bas Judah Leib (Glückel von Hameln)
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Nadine Gordimer

Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Linda Greenlaw

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Thich Nhat Hanh

Shirley Hazzard

Joan D. Hedrick

Courtesy Columbia University
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Carolyn Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Mary H. 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
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Ted Kooser

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Christina Lamb

Anne Lamott

Margaret (afterword by Clara Thomas) Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
C.S. Lewis

Henry W. Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Wangari Maathai

Ella Maillart

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Don Marquis

Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Armistead Maupin

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

Blair Feathers
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Ogden Nash

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

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Linda Olsson

Suz
Ruth Ozeki

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Nelofer Pazira

Margot Peters

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
Francine Prose

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barbara Pym

Ayn Rand

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

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Rainer Maria Rilke

Cokie Roberts

Theodore Roethke

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Åsne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Vandana Shiva

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Gary Snyder

1990s
Diana Souhami

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Edmund Spenser

Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Kate Summerscale

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alfred Tennyson

Therese of Lisieux

Statue of St. Thérèse, Holy Hill Shrine, Hubertus, Wisconsin. Photo by T. Canaan / Wikimedia Commons.
Wa Thiong'o Ngugi

Public-Conversations
Sherry Thomas

Author photo by Jennifer Sparks Harriman at Sparks Studio.
Henry David Thoreau

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

(1856-1932) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E.B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Ben Ames Williams

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

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
P G Wodehouse

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Emily Hilda Young

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