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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Abigail Adams

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Theodor W. Adorno

Louis Agassiz

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Leopoldo Alas

Unknown photographer
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Louis Althusser

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
A. R. Ammons

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

Bettina von Arnim

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians," Rupert Hughes (1903)
Project Gutenberg
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
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
Ingeborg Bachmann

Michail A Bakunin

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

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barbour

From the author's website www.platonia.com
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Donald Barthelme

John Barth

Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
George Buchner

David B.

Photo taken by Marcela Ewert
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Frédéric Beigbeder

Photo by Max Khokhlov
Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Saul Bellow

Benjamin Walter

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From
Wikipedia.
Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Thomas Bernhard

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Marcel Beyer

Hans Peter Schaefer
Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Wolfgang Borchert

Deutsch Post AG and Rosemarie Clausen / Wikimedia Commons
James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Thomas Brasch

Thomas Brasch, 1993. Photo by Marion Brasch / Wikimedia Commons.
Volker Braun

October 2006
Bertolt Brecht

Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Charles Brockden Brown

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Sir Thomas Browne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Wassil Bykau

Bykau.com
George Washington Cable

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Erskine Caldwell

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ernest Callenbach

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
John D. Caputo

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.)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Le Carre

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Willa Cather

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stanley Cavell

Camilo Jose Cela Conde

ÁWá
Paul Celan

Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Michael Chabon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stephen Chbosky

John Cheever

Anton Chekhov

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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)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Jonathan Coe

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ivy Compton-Burnett

William Congreve

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T Cooper

My image taken at Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
Robert Coover

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Jim Crace

Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
Felix Dahn

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robertson Davies

Lydia Davis

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Jamie Delano

Samuel R. 1 Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Kiran Desai

Charles Dickens

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Fatou Diome

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
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
E. L. Doctorow

J. P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

Fjodor M. Dostojewskij

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

Frederick Douglass

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

Photo by Ute Döring / German Wikipedia
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Bust of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Havixbeck, Germany. Photo by Marc Ryckaert / Wikimedia Commons.
Wiglaf Droste

Photo by user Viborg / Wikimedia Commons
John Dryden

Alexandre Dumas

Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
David Anthony Durham

Johann Peter Eckermann

Johann Joseph Schmeller (1825)
Umberto Eco

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

from Wikipedia
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Joseph Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
George Eliot

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

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Sextus Empiricus

William Empson

John Burlinson
Nathan englander

Elena Seibert
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Desiderius Erasmus

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Joshua Ferris

David Ferry

Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Paul K. Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
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
Marieluise Fleißer

Deutsche Post AG
Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Horton Foote

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

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

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Charles Frazier

Erich Fried

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)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Emile Gaboriau

Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Neil; Pratchett Gaiman, Terry

© Miriam Berkley. Use of image requires permission from
Miriam Berkley.
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Robert Gernhardt

Michael Ströhle (2001)
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
George Gissing

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

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Fran Gordon

Fran Gordon (left) with Sarita Varma
at LA Times Book Prize shortlist party, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJeremias Gotthelf

From Wikimedia Commons
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Balthasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Jorie Graham

Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Norbert Gstrein

Photo by Manfred Werner / Wikimedia Commons
Ursula L. Le Guin

Thom Gunn

Allan Gurganus

Karl Gutzkow

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Katharina Hacker

Photo by user NetzJ / Wikimedia Commons
Marilyn Hacker

Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

HEGEL

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

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)
Aleksandar Hemon

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.
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Gilbert Hernandez

Comiquero.com
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hitchens

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Ödön von Horvath

Michel Houellebecq

Peter Huchel

Peter Huchel (26 January 1972) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienVictor Hugo

wikipedia
Wilhelm von Humboldt

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

C. L. R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Photo by user PumpingRudi / Wikipedia, 1998.
Randall Jarrell

Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Jerome K. Jerome

Reinhard Jirgl

Reinhard Jirgl, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Samuel Johnson

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

Uwe Johnson (center). (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P057015)
Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Photo © 2004 Nathaniel Justice
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Patrick Kavanagh

J Keats

Hugh Kenner

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Mary Kinzie

Star Black
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Heinrich Von Kleist

Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Gyula Krudy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia
Hari Kunzru

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Philip Larkin

Else Lasker-Schüler

Deutsche Post / Wikimedia Commons
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Jerome Lawrence

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

Image from Twenty-four Portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Halldor Laxness

Chang-Rae Lee

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

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jakob Lenz

S Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
Hermann Löns

Jack London

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Lowell

Robert Ludlum

Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Niccolò Machiavelli

Claudio Magris

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Moses Maimonides

David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Nadeschda Mandelstam

Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Stephen Marche

Christopher Marlowe

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

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Friederike Mayröcker

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

Winsor McCay

1906
J. D. McClatchy

Frank McCourt

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
China Mieville

Jack Miles

Columbia University
Mark Millar

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Lydia Millet

Photo by Kieran Suckling
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Mitchell Margaret

Theodor Mommsen

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

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
George Moore

Karl Philipp Moritz

Portrait by Friedrich Rehberg (1758-1835)
Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Kate Mosse

Paul Muldoon

Heiner Müller

Herta Müller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

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

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nicolaus Cusanus

Detail from the grave of Nicholas Cardinal of Cusa, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Photo by Werner B. Sendker / Wikimedia Commons.
Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Novalis

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Wilhelm von Ockham

Jurij Olescha

From Wikipedia
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Marion Ettinger
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Jean Paul

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Milorad Pavic

Lynn Peril

Photo by Jane Townley.
Marisha Pessl

denton@speakeasy.net
Fernando Pessoa

Tom Piazza

John Burlinson, 8/24/08
D.B.C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Platon

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2007
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Rachel Pollack

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Alexander S. Puschkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Hilary Putnam

Photo released by Hilary Putnam, as copyright holder. See
WikipediaThomas Pynchon

Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz

Wilhelm Raabe

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ayn Rand

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

Photo by Rudolf Hesse (Deutsche Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0204-015-006)
Kenneth Rexroth

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
David Ricardo

Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Charlotte Roche

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Charlotte_Roche.jpg
Henry Rollins

Photograph by Emma Farrer
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Joseph Roth

J.K. Rowling

Matt Ruff

Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Gilbert Ryle

Miguel De Cervantes

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
Via
WikipediaNelly Sachs

Detail of Plaque at Nelly Sachs' Birthplace. Photograph by user Jcornelius / Wikimedia Commons.
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
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)
Brandon Sanderson

A. Sapkowski

Photo taken by Szymon Sokół
at the Polcon 2003 science fiction
and fantasy convention in Elbląg
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

Friedrich Von Schiller

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arno Schmidt

Robert Schneider

Photo by Sven Teschke
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maurice Sendak

Johann Gottfried Seume

Johann Gottfried Seume
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtAnne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Georg Simmel

Dan Simmons

Claude Simon

Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Tom Rob Smith

Zadie Smith

Alexandra Sokoloff

Author
Edmund Spenser

Manes Sperber

Baruch de Spinoza

Dana Spiotta

danaspiotta.com
Christina Stead

John Steinbeck

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

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

taleswapper
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)
Mark Strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
August Strindberg

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