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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
A. N. Afanasʹev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Boris Akunin

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ivo Andric

Anonymous

Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Simone de Beauvoir

Saul Bellow

Arnold Bennett

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

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Bernhard

Adolfo Bioy Casares

R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Fernand Braudel

Hermann Broch

Anne Brontë

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Charles Brockden Brown

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
John le Carre

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

A.P. Chekhov

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

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

Philippe Claudel

Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Archibald Joseph Cronin

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

John Burlinson
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Bob Curran

Gabrielle D'Annunzio

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

Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
F. M. Dostoevsky

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
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Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elaine Dundy

Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

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

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

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
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Cecil Scott Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Max Frisch

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jostein. (translated by Paulette Moller). Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Sally Gardner

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Andre Gide

1893
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Francisco Goldman

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Noah Gordon

Maxim Gorky

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

from Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Grossmith

public domain image
Ursula K. Le Guin

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eva Ibbotson

Adomnan Of Iona

Scenes from Adomnan's Life of St. Columba. Image from the Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1042 (A size))
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Jerome K Jerome

Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Patrick Kavanagh

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakes

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Molly Keane

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

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

Sigrid Estrada
Rudyard Kipling

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Derek Landy

Derek Landy (on right). Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Philip Larkin

Laski Marghanita

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

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

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Mikhail Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Mario Vargos Llosa

MDCarchives
Federico Garcia Lorca

Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norris Church Mailer

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Walter de la Mare

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

Ngaio Marsh

Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
W Somerset Maugham

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mccourt F

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
James Meek

Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Eduard Moerike

Wikimedia Commons
Harry Mulisch

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
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
Pablo Neruda

Jo Nesbo

Stian Andersen
Amelie Nothomb

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Kenzaburo Oe

Mrs. Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
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

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Gudrun Pausewang

Photo by user Zefram / Wikimedia Commons
Penguin

Sidewalk Advertising, Fitzrovia, London. Photo by user Albarella / Flickr.
Stef Penney

Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Marisha Pessl

Petronius

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Luigi Pirandello

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
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
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Irina Ratushinskaia

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Marilynne Robinson

Georges Rodenbach

Georges Rodenbach. Frontispiece from Georges Rodenbach (1920) by Georges Ramaekers
Theodore Roethke

Santiago Roncagliolo

Manuel González Olaechea y Franco
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Luis Sepulveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
Elif Shafak

Bahar
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Susan Sontag

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Wallace Earle Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Adalbert Stifter

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Elizabeth. Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
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
David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J. R. R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Michel Tournier

Rose Tremain

Anthony Trollope

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

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Paul Verhaeghen

Li-Hua Lan
Salley Vickers

Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Vreeland Susan

svreeland.com
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Horace Walpole

M. Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
Jill Paton Walsh

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
William Wharton

Richard Wilbur

Thornton Wilder

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

Photo by Liam Burke
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

P.G. Wodehouse

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Carl Zuckmayer

Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
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