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Edward Abbey

Daniel Abraham

Catriona Sparks
Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Hoermann/Evergreen Studios
Randy Alcorn

Photo courtesy of Eternal Perspective Ministries
Louisa M. Alcott

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

National Park Service
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean Auel

St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Joe Bageant

Kenneth V. Smith
ken@kvsmith.com
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh website
Banksy

Paolo Redwings from London, UK
Josh Baran

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
T. A. Barron

Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gregory Benford

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Holly Black

Stephen G. Bloom

Courtesy of Stephen G. Bloom.
Judy Blume

Erma Bombeck

Ben Bova

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bradford Enterprises
Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Connie Briscoe

Charlotte Bronte

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
Terry Brooks

Dale Brown

Dee Brown

Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Edna Buchanan

Photograph by Jim Virga
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Christopher Buckley

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

Eye on Books
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
T. Davis Bunn

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.)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Jim Butcher

Robert Byrne

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
John Case

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tom Clancy

Carol Higgins Clark

Photographed by Herman Estevez
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eye on Books
Marika Cobbold

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Margaret Coel

Taken by Lesa Holstine, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, Sept. 8, 2007
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles Colson

Dan Davis Photography
Edward Conlon

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Guy Consolmagno

Guy Consolmagno with the Vatican Meteorite collection, Castel Gandalfo, 2002. Photo by Kevin Nickerson.
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Patricia Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
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)
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Peter David

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Ted Dekker

August William Derleth

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
William Dietrich

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
Christina Dodd

Mary Mapes Dodge

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Scott Eden

Reader's Digest

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

Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
Linda Fairstein

Howard Fast

Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Robert Ferrigno

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
Joy Fielding

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

Earlene Fowler

Allen Fowler
Dorothea Benton Frank

Caroline Greyshock
Benedict Freedman

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Neil Gaiman

Adele Geras

William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Bernard Goldberg

William Golding

Sue Grafton

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

from Wikipedia
John Gray

Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
George Dawes Green

Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Brian Haig

Library of Congress
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Laurell K. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Louise Hay

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Howard V. Hendrix

E.M. Anzelmo
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.
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Jack Higgins

Tony Hillerman

Alfred Hitchcock

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

(c) Exley Foto Inc.
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Greg Iles

Photographed by Ben Hillyer
Vicki Iovine

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

© 2002-2006 Lisa Jackson
John Jakes

J. A. Jance

Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyBarbara Johnson

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.)
Louis B. Jones

Robert Jordan

James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
L. E. Modesitt Jr.

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Jan Karon

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.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Douglas Kennedy

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Cassandra King

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Jeff Kinney

Sophie Kinsella

Suzy Kline

Caroline Knapp

Dean Koontz

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
Jayne Ann Krentz

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Louis L'Amour

William Lashner

Gentry Lee

Image credit: NASA/JPL
(nasa.gov)
Beverly Lewis

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.)
C. S. Lewis

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)
Jack London

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Robert Ludlum

Eric Van Lustbader

Martin Luther

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.)
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Robert Merle

Wikipédia France
Fern Michaels

James A. Michener

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)
Denise Mina

Margaret Mitchell

Kevin D. Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Richard K. Morgan

Patrick Morley

Dick Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Scott O'Dell

Tawni O'Dell

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Janette Oke

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.)
George Orwell

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
Malika Oufkir

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Allison Pearson

Jerry Bauer
T. R. Pearson

Photography by T.R. Pearson
Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson on Anacapa Island (Greg Feldman)
Henry Petroski

Carly Phillips

carlyphillips.com
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cherie Priest

Photo by Cherie Priest
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Walter Rauschenbusch

Image from Dare We Be Christians (1914) by Walter Rauschenbusch
Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Cokie Roberts

Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Michael Robotham

Norman Rockwell

Vimala Rodgers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
J. K. Rowling

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Carl Sagan

Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
R. A. Salvatore

Brandon Sanderson

John Sandford

John Saul

John Scalzi

James C. Schaap

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.)
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Laura C. Schlessinger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Karl Schroeder

DaVe Hogg
Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sidney Sheldon

Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
ROBERT SILVERBERG

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

T. Raphael Simons

Permission received from the author. He had his associate email me the photo.
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Scott Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Elizabeth George Speare

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Peter Straub

Faith Sullivan

faithsullivan.com
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
G. P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Thomas
Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Aimee Thurlo

Albuquerque, The Magazine
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Karen Traviss

Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Photo by André Karwath / Wikimedia Commons
Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Thomas Tryon

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

Library of Congress
Chris Tusa

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sun Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Francois Voltaire

Elisabeth Vonarburg

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Kurt Vonnegut

Jo Walton

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Tiffany L. Warren

James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Kathy Watson

The Royal Literary Fund
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Gary Wolf

Naomi Wolf

Stuart Woods

Patricia Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
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