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Edwin Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Chingiz Aïtmatov

Andreas Zak
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Derek Bailey

Graham Burnett, 10 nov 2007
Doreen Baingana

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
John Barth

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson

Charles Baxter

Samuel Beckett

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Leonard Bernstein

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

Ancius Boethius


Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Pierre Boulez

Paul Bowles

Ray Bradbury

David Bradshaw

Andre Brink

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

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
Sir Thomas Browne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Martin Buber

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll


Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Elze Hamilton
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Bob McNeely, The White House
Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Brenda Cooper

Joe Merkens
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
St. John of the Cross

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
e. e. cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
David Damrosch

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
E M Delafield

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Alan DeNiro

Kate McGough

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
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
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

George Eliot

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Andreas Eschbach

from the author
W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Sheridan Le Fanu

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Jean de la Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

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

John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Rene Girard

Vicq
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)
Angélica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Jacob Grimm

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

public domain image
Ursula K. Le Guin

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David GUTERSON

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edith Hamilton

Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thich Nhat; Ho Hanh, Mobi (translator)

M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Robert Hass

Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
O. Henry

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)
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
John Hollander

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
William James

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

Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
Heidi Julavits

denton@speakeasy.net
Carl G. Jung

Franz Kafka

Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
James Patrick Kelly

Kent Kennan

Frank Kermode

Elias Khoury

Suz
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Laila Lalami

Photo by Sara Corwin
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
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.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Seth Lloyd

John Brockman
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

Laurie J. Marks


Gabriel Garcia Marquez

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne Du Maurier

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Maureen F. McHugh

Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganChina Mieville

Arthur Miller

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

Yukio mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry


David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
A. B. Mitford

Samuel Lawrence
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Harry Mulisch

Herta Müller


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
Natsume Soseki

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Amelie Nothomb

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
John O'Hara

Nnedi Okorafor-mbachu

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Helen Oyeyemi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Wikipedia
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Elliot Perlman

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Marisha Pessl

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Joel R. Primack


Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Mike Resnick

Jean Francois Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
Kenneth Rexroth

Samuel Richardson

Chris Roberts

Marilynne Robinson

Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author

Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Carl Sagan


J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Arnold Schoenberg

Madame de Sévigné

wikipedia
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Delia Sherman

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Zadie Smith

Jose Carlos Somoza

Andrzej Barabasz
Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Sean Stewart

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Lord Tennyson

W. M. Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
James Tiptree Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Lionel Trilling

Anthony Trollope

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


Amos Tutuola

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Catherynne M. Valente

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Various

Vendela Vida

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut


David Foster Wallace

Jill Paton Walsh

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Simone Weil

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
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)
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
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
David Young

John Seyfried
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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