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Edmond About

Octave Uzanne
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Ferran Adria

Photo by user Sono pazzi / Wikimedia Commons.
Chingiz Aitmatov

Andreas Zak
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Boris Akunin

Leopoldo Alas Clarin

Unknown photographer
Rafael Alberti

Louisa May Alcott

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

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Tariq Ali

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Rajaa Alsanea

Louis Althusser

Jorge Amado

Edmundo de Amicis

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und
praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ivo Andric

Anonimo

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

(c) Miguel Perdiguero
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Linwood Barclay

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Pio Baroja

Sebastian Barry

Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Pardo Bazan

Bbc

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Adolfo Bioy Casares

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Dave Boling

Jorge Luis Borges

Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Andre Breton

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
DAN BROWN

credit: Philip Scalia
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Sir Richard Burton

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

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Antonia S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Lewis Carroll

Paul Carr

Photo by: Richard Moross
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Camilo Jose Cela

ÁWá
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

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

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia Cornwell

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Colin Cotterill

self portrait by Colin Cotterill
San Juan De LA Cruz

E E Cummings

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

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)
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Daniel C Dennet

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Kiran Desai

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
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
Stephen Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Nick Drake

Ian Burt, 2006.
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Stella Duffy

Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Eco Umberto

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
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Juan Enriquez

Steve Jurvetson
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
J. Sheridan Lefanu

Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Viktor E. Frankl

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Antonio Gala

Miguel A. Monjas
Juan Eslava Galan

Miguel A. Monjas
Benito Perez Galdos

ALEX GARLAND

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Theophile Gautier

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
William Golding

E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Almudena Grandes

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jacob Grimm

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

Walnut Whippet
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Mohammed Hanif

Robert Harris

S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Ernest Hemingway

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

© Pan Macmillan
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
M.J. Hyland

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-29028
Henrik Ibsen

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

Eugene Ionesco

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
PD James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTahar Ben Jelloun

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
James Joyce

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

Mari Jungstedt at Gothenburg Book Fair, 2007. Photo by Lennart Guldbrandsson / Wikimedia Commons.
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
KAWABATA YASUNARI

Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Douglas Kennedy

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Peter Kropotkin

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

J. Lacan

Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
George Lakoff

Hubert Lampo

Mariano Jose De Larra

Bust of Mariano José de Larra, Madrid, Spain. Photo by J.L. de Diego / Wikimedia Commons.
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Camilla Lackberg

Suz
Moratina F. Leandro

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)
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
Gotthold Ephraim; Palao Moreno Lessing, Antonio

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Marina Lewycka

Lauren Liebenberg

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Federico Garcia Lorca

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Niccolo Machiavelli

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Catherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Dumaurier

Katarina Mazetti

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Colleen McCullough

John McDowell

Philosopher John McDowell in Paris, Oct 2007, in front of the Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin.
Photograph by A.Zielinska
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Juan Jose Millas

Miguel A. Monjas
Henry Miller

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

Anchee Min

Rohinton Mistry

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Tirso de Molina

Monument to Tirso de Molina, Madrid, Spain. Photo by Luis García / Flickr.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Kate Mosse

Herta Muller

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
Soseki Natsume

Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Charles Nodier

Amelie Nothomb

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
orwell george

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

Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Fernando Pessoa

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Dbc Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Ignacio Martinez de Pison

Adoratio
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Karl Popper

Annie PROULX

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

Thomas Pynchon

Francisco de Quevedo

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Mary Renault

Javier Martínez Reverte

Miguel A. Monjas
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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

M. J. Rose

Photo by Michael Bergman
Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Arundhati Roy

Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Photo by Matt Musselman
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Marques de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de saint exupery

J. D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Walter Scott

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

Patricia Williams
George Seferis

Photo by user Klearchoskapoutsis / Greek Wikipedia.
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Luis Sepulveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Javier Sierra

Photograph by Eva Pastor
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Maj Sjowall

B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Martin Cruz-Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Zadie Smith

Fyodor Sologub

wikimedia commons
Rowan Somerville

Tiggy Kennedy
Jose Carlos Somoza

Andrzej Barabasz
Susan Sontag

Sofocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
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
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kate Summerscale

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Andrew Taylor

© Caroline Taylor
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Aquinas

Claude Tillier

Image from Mon Oncle Benjamin (1910) by Claude Tillier
Colm Toibin

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sun Tzu

De Unamuno Miguel

from wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Zoe Valdes

Georges Seguin
J. Valera

Permission Fundacion Aguilar y Eslava
Ramon Maria Del Valle-Inclan

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-118658)
Antonio Buero Vallejo

ÁWá
Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa

Amenofis
Lope de Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Voltaire

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Martin Walker

© Bastian Schweitzer / Diogenes Verlag
Horace Walpole

Mika Waltari

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Janwillem Van De Wetering

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Simon Wiesenthal

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Virginia Wolf

Wikipedia
Qiu Xiaolong

Louisa Lim
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Philip G. Zimbardo

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Slavoi Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)