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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Chingiz Aitmatov

Andreas Zak
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Jorge Amado

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Juan Luis Arsuaga

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain

Kate Atkinson


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

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

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Beauvoir Simone de

Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Thomas Berger

Suzanne Berne

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Fanny Burney

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Samuel Butler

Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William H. Calvin

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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Benvenuto Cellini

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Tsjechov

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Susanna Clarke

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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

Jonathan Coe


J.M. Coetzee

Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Maryse Condé

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jim Crace

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
David Crystal

Barry Cunliffe

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

Kathryn Davis

Emma Dodge Hanson photgraphy.
There is no permission to reproduce.
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Don DeLillo

Dennett Daniel

Daniel C. Dennett
Kiran Desai

Jared Diamond


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
E.L. Doctorow

Anthony Doerr

J.P.Donleavy

Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Gerard Donovan

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Alexandre Dumas

Gerald Durrell

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Maria Edgeworth

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Einstein

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

George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Evelyn

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

Connie Miller
Sheridan Le Fanu

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Edna Ferber

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

R. Thorburn
Joshua Ferris

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C.S. Forester

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

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Benjamin Franklin

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sir James George Frazer

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Neil Gaiman

Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Thomas Gilovich

Nicola Kountoupes
Cornell University Photography
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
C.S. Godshalk

John Madere
William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Gogol

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

William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Nadine Gordimer

Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene


Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
George Grossmith

public domain image
Ursula K. Le Guin

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Robert Harris

Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Sir Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Marc D. Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
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.
James Leo Herlihy

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Stefan Heym

Photo by Rainer Weisflog. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-031)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Edward Hirsch

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
John Hollander

Homer

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

W. D. Howells

from Wikipedia
W.H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Elizabeth Inchbald

Wikimedia Commons
Arnaldur Indridason

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
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Henry James

Wikipedia
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyLisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Jerome K. Jerome

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Gail Jones

Martin Jones

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Wendy Kaminer

Kathy Chapman, 2008
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Keillor Garrison

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Claire Kilroy

Helen Kilroy
Rudyard Kipling

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
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
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Madame De La Fayette

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Adam Langer

Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

F.R. Leavis

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Charlotte Lennox

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

photo copyright Steve Double
M.IU Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Sinclair Lewis

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

from Wikipedia
Alan P. Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Eugene Linden

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
David Liss

Penelope Lively

Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Henry Mackenzie

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

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martell

© Daniele Schaub
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
George Meredith

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

Derek Shapton
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
China Mieville

Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Laura Miller

Nancy Crampton
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
Denise Mina

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry


David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
George Moore

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Erwin Mortier

Wikimedia Commons
John Mortimer

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Taslima Nasrin

Bangladesh Blogger, May 1, 2005
Natsume Soseki

Irene Nemirovsky

Harold Nicolson

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Amelie Nothomb

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenzaburo Oe

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
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/
Julie Otsuka

Daryl N Long
Ovid

Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Ruth L. Ozeki

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mungo Park

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Samuel Pepys

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

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elliot Perlman

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Laurens Van der Post

© Robert Hinshaw

Chaim Potok

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
J.B. Priestley

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
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ross Raisin

Julian Rathbone

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Ben Rice

I. A. Richards

Samuel Richardson

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Marilynne Robinson

Phyllis Rose

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Alexei Sayle

www.chrismsaunders.com
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Olive Schreiner

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

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Hjalmar Soderberg

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Michael. SHERMER

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Magnus Fröderberg, Nordbild, www.norden.org
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Adalbert Stifter

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

from Wikipedia Commons
Gottfried Von Strassburg

Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Kate Summerscale

Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Tacitus

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Andrew Taylor

© Caroline Taylor
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Jean Toomer

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

Niall McDermind
Barbara Trapido

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rose Tremain

Iliya Troyanov

Photo by Effi Schweizer / Wikimedia Commons

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frances Trollope

Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jonathan Tropper

JonathanTropper.com
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Mathieu Bourgois
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
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