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Anthony S. Abbott

Daniel Abraham

Catriona Sparks
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Abigail Adams

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

Henry Adams

Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Arthur Agatston

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Louisa M Alcott

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

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.
Lloyd Alexander

Tasha Alexander

Carrie Schechter
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Isabel Allende

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

Kenn Amdahl

photo by Scott Amdahl
Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Pamela Anderson

Author of "Star" and "Star Struck"
(U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's
Mate Airman Aaron Burden, 2004, San Diego, Calif.)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Photo by Mary A. Dusing
Mary Kay Andrews

HarperCollins
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Elliot Arnold

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

Photo by Carsten Sohn / Wikimedia Commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Reza Aslan

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Sir Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Enid Bagnold

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

Wikipédia France
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Kenneth Barker

J. M. Barrie

Stephanie Barron

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff: Selfportrait with palette, 1880
From Wikimedia
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Edward L. Beach

U.S. Navy
Quentin Bell

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
E. F Benson

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

Robert McAfee
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. C. Bentley

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Cyrano de Bergerac

Wikipedia
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
John Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Darrell L. Bock

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.)
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Russell S. Bonds

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mark Bowden

Rhys Bowen

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
C.J. Box

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Ray Bradbury

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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
Geraldine Brooks

Alton Brown

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kurt D. Bruner

owned by Kurt Bruner
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
William F. Buckley

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nancy Bush

Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Roy Campbell

Bogdan Dimitriu, 2008
Tony Campolo

Wikipedia
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)
Orson Scott Card

Will Carleton

Credit. N. Sarony, New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John LeCarre

Lewis Carrol

Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Willa Cather

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

Bennett Cerf

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Oswald Chambers

Whittaker Chambers

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-114739)
Iris Chang

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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

Fromm Wikipedia
G.K. Chesterton

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

wikipedia
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Craig Childs

Photo by Bruce Hucko
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Colette

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Confucius

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Patricia Cornwell

Trevor Corson

Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Bob Costas

President George W. Bush speaks with Bob Costas of NBC Sports during an interview Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, while attending the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. White House photo by Eric Draper
(whitehouse.gov)
Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Robert Crais

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
Dave Cullen

Photo by MaryLynn Gillaspie.
Professor Cunliffe

Marion Cunningham

Gregory Curtis

Photo © 2006 Wyatt McSpadden
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)
Richard Henry Dana-Jr

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Robertson Davies

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Clarence Day

Michael K. Deaver

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Carol Doak

David S. Dockery

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.)
E.L. Doctorow

Bob Dole

(Wikipedia)
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Mark Dunn

Colin Duriez

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.)
Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Reader''s Digest Editors

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

Sophie Egan
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Aaron Elkins

Eye on Books
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
J. Sheridan LeFanu

Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Shelby Foote

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
Earlene Fowler

Allen Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler

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

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

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Walter Gieseking

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Godden Rumer

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Sue Grafton

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

from Wikipedia
John Granger

Courtesy Zossima Press.
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Graham Greene

Alan Greenspan

Kerry Greenwood

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Martha Grimes

The Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

A.B. Guthrie

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Scott Hahn

Photo © Fanny Surjana / Flickr
David Halberstam

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Sean Hannity

James R. Hansen

Photo by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harewood

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (center). Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
B. H. Liddell-Hart

carl.army.mil
Carolyn G. Hart

Library of Congress
Robert Hass

Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Robert A. Heinlein

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
David Helvarg

From the author
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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Gilbert Highet

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

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

Harold(Author) Holzer

Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar and Co-Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 2009 Commission
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
G. M. Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nancy Horan

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008.
Nick Hornby

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E. Houseman

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Bill Hybels

Henrik Ibsen

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

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Michael Jackson

photo by Alan Light of Michael Jackson (1)
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJerome K. Jerome

Penn Jillette

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1988
James Joyce

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

Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
William Kamkwamba

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Jan Karon

M. M. Kaye

John Keats

Agnes Newton Keith

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

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.)
a Kempis Thomas

Kent Wheeler Kennan

Diana Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Richard Bachman

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
W. P. Kinsella

Mary Kinzie

Star Black
Rudyard Kipling

Russell Kirk

Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Fritz Kreisler

Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Emeril Lagasse

(by Spc. Leah R. Burton)
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse signs his cookbooks and interacts with fans during a book signing at the Fort Lewis, Washington.
(www4.army.mil)
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Anne Lamott

Louis L'Amour

Ring Lardner

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

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Harper Lee

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

Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
David Letterman

Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury

C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
David Liss

John Lithgow

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Livy

from Wikipedia
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
Max Lucado

Jack Lynch

courtesy author
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.)
Ross Macdonald

Niccolo Machiavelli

Helen MacInnes

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

Photo © Barry Iverson
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Catherine Marshall

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.)
Ngaio Marsh

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Walter Martin

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.)
Bobbie Ann Mason

John Matteson

W. Somerset Maugham (Ed)

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

Daphne Du Maurier

André Maurois

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
John Mccormack

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress -- LC-DIG-ggbain-02577).
Sharyn McCrumb

Robert McCrum

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Eric Metaxas

James A. Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Rohinton Mistry

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Brent Monahan

Brent Monahan
by Caitlin Monahan
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Farley Mowat

Bill D. Moyers

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

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

Pablo Neruda

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Carol O'Connell

Flannery O'Conner

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Bill O'Reilly

Chris McCann
George Orwell

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

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

Alexei Panshin
Sara Paretsky

Dorothy Parker

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Octavio Paz

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Allison Pearson

Jerry Bauer
Sharon Kay Penman

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Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Anne Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Eugene H. Peterson

Ann Petry

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Robert Pinsky

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Sylvia Plath

Plato

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Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

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Chaim Potok

Diana Preston

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
PHILIP PULLMAN

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Kwei Quartey

Photo by Steve Munoz, stevesinfocus.com
Ellery (editor) Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Sir A.T. Quiller-Couch

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Anna Quindlen

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Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Steven Raichlen

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Rachael Ray

The Heart Truth
Piers Paul Read

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
RUTH RENDELL

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
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Samuel Richardson

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J.D. Robb

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Chris Rock

Norman Rockwell

Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Chris Rose

Flickr user infrogmation
Charles Rosen

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Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Damon Runyon

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Paul Rusesabagina

Eye on Books
Salman Rushdie

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Mary Doria Russell

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Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel De Cervantes

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Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Elizabeth D. Samet

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
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

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Arnold Schoenberg

Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
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Dr. Seuss

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Michael Shaara

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William Shakespeare

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Hershel Shanks

Bernard Shaw

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Mary Shelley

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Michael Shermer

Nevil Shute

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Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Editor Robert Silverberg

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Dan Simmons

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Alexander McCall Smith

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Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
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Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Charles Percy Snow

Gary Snyder

1990s
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic Society

Sir George Solti

Sophocles

Muriel Spark

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Charles Spurgeon

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Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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Bram Stoker

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Rex Stout

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

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Mark Strand

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Gene Stratto Porter

Ball State University
Lee Strobel

James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
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Jonathan Stroud

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Kate Summerscale

Wislawa Szymborska

Amy Tan

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Ida M. Tarbell

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G. P. Taylor

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Public-Conversations
Clarence Thomas

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Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
James Thurber

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Alexis de. Tocqueville

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John F. Walvoord

Rick Warren

Rick Warren
Alice L. Waters

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Civil War Preservation Trust
Evelyn Waugh

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Connie Willis

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Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Jacqueline Winspear

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Owen Wister

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P. G. Wodehouse

Thomas Wolfe

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Gary Zukav

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