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Anon

Steve Cadman
Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agate

James Agate, British writer and critic (9 February 1938) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienConrad Aiken

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

Rod Delroy
W.H. Ainsworth

Project Gutenberg
Boris Akunin

Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Tsaritsa Alexandra

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-01137)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
William Allingham

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Kingsley Amis

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

Photoprint copyrighted by Lomen Bros.,
Nome, 1920 (LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-70482)
Hans Christian Anderson

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienM. T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Anne Applebaum

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Aristotle

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

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

From "The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry" by A.E. Waite (1911)
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Andrea Ashworth

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Gertrude Atherton

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

Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Lauren Bacall

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

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

Rosemary Bailey

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
R.M. Ballantine

wikipedia
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Robert Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
(AP Watt)
Pat Barker

Bernard Bastable

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson
William Bartram

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

Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
George Baxt

Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
George W. Beahm

Cecil Beaton

Sir Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, Buenos Aires, 1950. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
Sir Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Antony Beevor

Hazel K. Bell

Aidan Bell
Quentin Bell

William Rose Benet

Luis Quintanilla
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

Anti-war demo, London, March 19, 2005 (photo credit: JK the Unwise, Wikipedia user)
Charles Benoit

Kurt Brownell, photographer
Arthur Christopher Benson

"The Brothers Benson"
(A.C. Benson on left)
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)
E.Clerihew Bentley

Scott Berg

Thomas Berger

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Leonard Bernstein

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kate Berridge

Steve Berry

Steve Berry
John Betjeman

Thomas Bewick

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Karl Bohm


Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Billingham

© Charlie Hopkinson 2007
T.J. Binyon

Courtesy of www.lifeinlegacy.com
Isabella L. Bird

Georges Bizet

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Nicholas Blake

John Burlinson
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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

Athena Gassoumis
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Elena Torre
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
William Bolcom

White House photo by Paul Morse.
2006 National Medal of Arts recipient and composer William Bolcom
with President and Mrs. Laura Bush and his wife Joan Morris.
Jay R. Bonansinga

Jim Newberry
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Stephen Booth

Jorge Luis Borges

Aleksandr Borodin

George Henry Borrow

wikipedia
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Marjorie Bowen

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

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
David Bowie

Arthur, September 25, 2006
Colin Bowles

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

M.E, Braddon

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Johannes Brahms

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Julia Briggs

Stephen Briggs

Stephen Briggs as Vetinari
Sarah Brightman

DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Benjamin Britten

Tony Broadbent

Doug Menuez
Damien Broderick

Barbara Lamar
Anne Bronte

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
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Mel Brooks

Wikimedia Commons
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Elizabeth Buchan


John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Bulfinch

Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma

Wikipedia
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)
John Burns

Robert Burns

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
John Hill Burton

Frontispiece of the book, The Book-Hunter, by John Holl Burton, 1882 edition
Richard Burton

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Kate Bush

Kate Bush News & Info Forum
Josephine Butler

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

Lewis Buzbee

James M. Cain

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

Monica Curtin
Simon Callow

Luís de Camões

Wikimedia Commons
Andrea Camilleri

Harry Campbell

Emma Campbell
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
P. M. Carlson

pmcarlson.net (unknown photographer)
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre


J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Violet Bonham Carter

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07463)
W.Hodding Carter

Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
John Case

Roger Casement

Image from The Trial of Sir Roger Casement (1917) edited by George H. Knott
Sarah L. Caudwell

John Burlinson
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
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
Charles Chaplin

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

Laurel Anderson
Monique Charlesworth

Alex Lifschutz

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)
Mavis Cheek

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anton Chekov

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

Wikimedia User Emettmcginty
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chesterton G.K.

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

Peter Cheyney

Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Lee Child

Agatha Christie

Randolph S. Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolph, and grandson, Winston in coronation robes: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05370)
Winston S Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Count Galeazzo Ciano

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Ann Cleeves

Duncan Lawrie
Judy Clemens

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
William Cobbett

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

Mark Coggins

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Joan Collins

Phil Konstantin

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Michael Connelly

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

John Connolly

Eye on Books
S .J. Connolly

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Lesley Cookman

Accent Press Ltd
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Vivian Cook

Photo by Pam Cook
Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Cornwell

Colin Cotterill

self portrait by Colin Cotterill
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Noel Coward

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

William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
Kit Craig

kitreed.net
Dinah Mulock Craik

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

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
F. Marion Crawford

Credit: Zaida Ben-Yusuf, circa 1900
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83072)
John Creasey

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Archibald Joseph Cronin

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

John Burlinson
Cameron Crowe

Andrew Cooper
Alexander Cruden

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

Nicholas Culpeper

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

Euclides da Cunha (1866—1909)
Caricature by Raul Pederneiras, 1903
(Wikipedia)
Clive Cussler

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
William Dampier

Project Gutenberg: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
Richard Henry Dana

Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Diane Mott Davidson

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
W. H. Davies

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

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Mike Davis

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Lyon Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
John Dee

Warwick Deeping

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

Self-portrait, 1860 (Yorck Project)
Delafield.E.M.

Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Leo Delibes

from Wikipedia
Sefton Delmer

Delmer Estate
Jo Dereske

Courtesy of the author
August Derleth

Melvil Dewey

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum

Charles Dickens

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

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Dick Philip K.

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Thomas Dilworth

Thomas Dilworth (died 1780): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-55528)
(cropped)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Isaac Disraeli

Wikipedia
Michael Dobbs

Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Joanne Dobson

E.L. Doctorow

David Dodge

David Dodge (1910-1974).
James Dodson

Paul Doherty

Stephen Donaldson

John Donne

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
Louise Doughty

Photo by Tim Duncan
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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Stephanie Dowrick

stephaniedowrick.com

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle.
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Drinkwater

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Isadora Duncan

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-05654 (cropped)
E. E. Dunlop

E.E.(Weary) Dunlop
Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Nell Dunn

Edward Plunkett Dunsany, Baron

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Albrecht Durer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
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

Antonin Dvorak

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Mignon G. Eberhart

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Earl of Avon

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-25598)
(cropped)
Maria Edgeworth

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

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Amelia B. Edwards

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

© Kate Radcliffe
Einhard the Frank

from Wikipedia
Elbert Hubbard

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Edward Elgar

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-36551)
George Eliot

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

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Roger Jon Ellory

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
J.F. Englert

Susan Stava
Emile Erckmann

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Mary Anna Evans

Randy Batista, Media Image Photography
John Evelyn

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

Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Manuel de Falla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Jerrilyn Farmer

Jeffery Farnol

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

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Niall Ferguson

Dan Fesperman

Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Katie Fforde

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

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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

Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

Jean De La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

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
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
Christopher Fowler

John Fowles

Clare Francis

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Dick Francis

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Benjamin Franklin

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

Susan Greenhill
George Frazer

Stephen Frears

Sweden, 1989, promoting Dangerous Liaisons (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Brian Freeman

Photo by Martin Hoffsten
R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
(AP Watt)
Celia Fremlin

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Fullerton

Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Alan Furst

Jacques Futrelle

霧木諒二 on Wikipedia
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Max Gallo

ΛΦΠ
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Francis Galton

From "The Life, Letters, and Labors of Francis Galton" by Karl Pearson.
Graeme Garden

Andy Davison
Meg Gardiner

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Lisa Gardner

Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Alex Garland

Judy Garland

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

William John Thomson
Mark Gatiss

eye4images
Theophile Gautier

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

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

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Guy Gibson

Wikipedia
Andre Gide

1893
John Gielgud

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
William Gilbert

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
W.S. Gilbert

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

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
(cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Gissing

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

Victoria Glendenning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Joseph Goebbels

Gogol.Nikolay

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 (
linkGlen David Gold

William Golding

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Edmond Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Gosling

John Gosling
Paula Gosling

Courtesy of Allison & Busby
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Philip Gossett

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
John Gower

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Caroline Graham

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Rob Grant

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Benny Green

Tom Beetz, 2008.
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Joseph Green

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Michael Green

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.)
Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey - Founder, Tagman Press
Edvard Grieg

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Martha Grimes

Jacob Grimm

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

public domain image
Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula K. Le Guin

Batya Gur

Photo by user Casaresricardo / Wikimedia Commons
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Douglas Haig

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

Photo by Oliver F. Atkins, White House Photographer (Wikimedia Commons)
Kathleen Hale

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Charles Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-35227)
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Masha Hamilton

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Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Georg Frederich Handel

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Thomas Hardy

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Frank Harris

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Joanne Harris

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Robert Harris

B.H.Liddell Hart

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Paul Harvey, Sir

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
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Jaroslav Hasek

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Ulrich von Hassell

Max Hastings

Woody Haut

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Ian Hay

William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Reginald Heber

From "The Story of the Hymns and Tunes" by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
Konrad Heiden

(stuff in German that I can't understand--if you read German, can you leave me a comment with a translation of the Wikimedia page in the copyright section? thanks!)
Joseph Heller

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

Paul Natkin, Photo Reserve
Sarah Helm

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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O Henry

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Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
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James Herbert

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Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
David Hewson

Photo by Mark Bothwell
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)
Christopher Hibbert

Harry Patterson

Patricia Highsmith

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Tony Hillerman

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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Chester Himes

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Alfred Hitchcock

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

Adolf Hitler

Tami Hoag

(c) Exley Foto Inc.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Chuck Hogan

Photographed by Joyce Ravid
James Hogg

Wendy Holden

John Hollander

Joyce Holms

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Gustav Holst

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Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
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Anthony Hope

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Bob Hope

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Alistair Horne

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A.E. Housman

Robert E. Howard

Fred Hoyle

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W.H. Hudson

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Glyn Hughes

Halifax Courier
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
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Victor Hugo

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Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
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Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
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David Irving

March 2003: David Irving at 65 photograph outside Public Records office (National Archives) London
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Hastings Lionel Ismay, Baron Ismay

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Holbrook Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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A. J. Jacobs

Maxim Jakubowski

Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
Edward James

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Wikipedia

M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

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Russell James

Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Lisa Jardine

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Michael Jecks

Richard Jefferies

Wikipedia
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Rachel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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Griff Rhys Jones

Morag Joss

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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Jeffrey Kacirk

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Boris Karloff

M. M. Kaye

Nikos Kazandzakis

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

Jerry Bauer
John Keats

Brigid Keenan

Jesse Kellerman

Jim Kelly

Neil Cooper
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
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Frank Kermode

Philip Kerr

Count Harry Kessler

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
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Dean King

Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Ross King

Charles Kingsley

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Mary Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Stephen King

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Madeleine Wickham

Rudyard Kipling

Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Christina Lamb

Edward William Lane

from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre
Fritz Lang

Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Marghanita Laski

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D.H. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

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Franz Lehar

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Annie Lennox

nemahziz, 4 September 2004
Elmore Leonard

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Theatrical poster, 1906
(Theatrical Poster Collection,
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Donna Leon

Mikhail Lermontov

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

from Wikipedia
John Lescroart

William Mosgrove
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Charles James Lever

C.S. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
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Jack London

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H P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Robert Ludlum

B. Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Andrew Lycett

Author photo: Susan Greenhill
Rose MacAulay, Dame, D.B.E.

John Burlinson
Lord Macaulay

McDiarmid

Bust of Hugh MacDiarmid, South Gyle, Scotland. Photo by user MacRusgail / English Wikipedia.
Ross Macdonald

Arthur Machen

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Shirley MacLaine

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Madonna

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Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Barry Maitland

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John Major

Geert Mak

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NEICN (North-East Irish Cultural Network)
Thomas Mallon

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Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Ian Marchant

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Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
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Bruce Marshall

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Ngaio Marsh

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Martial

From Wikipedia
Valerie Martin

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Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Groucho Marx

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John Masefield

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A. E. W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Somerset Maugham

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Carl Van Vechten Collection
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Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

George Du Maurier

Elliott & Fry
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Horace McCoy

Sharyn McCrumb

Robert McCrum

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Elizabeth McGregor

Ewan McGregor

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Melina Mercouri

Deon Meyer

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Jeffrey Meyers

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John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
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A. A. Milne

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Giles Milton

John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Gladys Mitchell

Naomi Mitchison

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Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

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

Santa Montefiore

Adam Brown
Claudio Monteverdi

from Wikipedia
Field-Marshal Montgomery

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
George Moore

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Thomas Moore

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Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Morgan

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Christopher Morley

Jan Morris

John Mortimer

Walter Mosley

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Kate Mosse

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Marcia Muller

N.T.P. Murphy

Norman Murphy at the 2007 Wodehouse Society convention. Photo by
Philar Shamim
British Museum

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
Robert Musil

Modest Mussorgsky

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Vicki Myron

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Ed Naha

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Soseki Natsume

Irene Nemirovsky

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Edith Nesbit
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The Morning News/Identitytheory
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Carl August Nielsen

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Alfred Noyes

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Joyce Carol Oates Oates

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Edna O'Brien

Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Carol O'Connell

Jacques Offenbach

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Michael Okuda

Mrs Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
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LC-USZ62-103707)
Michael Ondaatje

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Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
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Carl Orff

P. J. ORourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

Ovid

Tim Page

Columbia University
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sara Paretsky

Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
Robert B. Parker

C.Northcote Parkinson

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Christopher Patten

Kaihsu Tai
James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Elliot Paul

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Gudrun Pausewang

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Peter Wright
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Ridley Pearson

Stef Penney

Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Samuel Pepys

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Arturo Perez-Reverte

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Anne Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius Arbiter

Henry Petroski

Nikolaus Pevsner

Eden Phillpotts

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Jan Pienkowski

Billie Piper

Don Stewart, June 23, 2007
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Plato

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George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Laurens Van Der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcia Preston

marciapreston.com
J.B. Priestley

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Heather Pringle

Serge Prokofiev

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Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Malcolm Pryce

Dorling Kindersley Publishing

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexandr Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Ellery 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)
Arthur Quiller- Couch

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Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Sergey Rachmaninov

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(cropped)
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Kathleen Raine

Meladina
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Robert Rankin

Julian Rathbone

Irina Ratushinskaya

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
Maurice Ravel

Derek Raymond

Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Piers Paul Read

Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
Carol Reed

Kathy Reichs

Matthew Reilly

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mary Renault

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Ottorino Respighi

Photograph from the private collection of Adriano and reproduced with permission
Christopher Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Samuel Richardson

Stella Rimington

Jamie Hughes
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Mary (Roberts) Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts

From FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA, 1897.
Henry Morton Robinson

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Peter Robinson

Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer

Sax Rohmer

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
Leona Rostenberg

Peter Rowland

Steven Runciman

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Gary Russell

Mary Doria Russell

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Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes

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Rafael Sabatini

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Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
J.D. Salinger

Jim Sallis

John Sandford

pseud. [i.e. Herman Cyril MacNeile.] Sapper

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Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Scarrow

Picture from his website http://scarrow.co.uk
George B Schaller

Beijing Zoo lecture, Aug. 10, 2005 (photo credit: Smartneddy, Wikipedia user)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Axel Scheffler

Axel Scheffler drawing pictures for Julia Donaldson's Charlie Cook's Favourite Book, September 2005, Oxford.
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
Budd Schulberg

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118219
Manda Scott

Lisa Scottoline

Library of Congress
R.F. Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"

Sir Walter Scott

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

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Neil Sedaka

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Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Maurice Sendak

Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
Gerald Seymour

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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Irwin Shaw

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Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Anita Shreve

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Nevil Shute

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Jean Sibelius

Henry Sienkiewicz

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Daniel Silva

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Georges Simenon

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Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Bryan Singer

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Karin Slaughter

Joshua Slocum

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Bedrich Smetana

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Goldwin Smith

Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Peter C. Smith

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Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Tom Rob. Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
C.P. Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Diana Souhami

John Philip Sousa

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50248)
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Albert Speer

Stephen Spender

Edmund Spencer

Mickey Spillane

Hilary Spurling

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Les Standiford

Virginia Wells
Vincent Starrett

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Olen Steinhauer

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne


Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Storey

Jeremy Keith
Rebecca Stott

Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Johann Strauss

Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
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Richard Strauss

Igor Stravinsky

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Matthew Sturgis

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Kate Summerscale

Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
John M. Synge

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Sir Herbert Tree in "Pygmalion"
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