Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

William Langewiesche

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Photograph of American writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn.

Lafcadio Hearn

(1850 - 1904)

Photograph of English literary historian and critic Edmund Gosse.

Edmund Gosse

(1849 - 1928)

Image of American lawyer and autobiographer Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

(1815 - 1882)

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

John Donne

(1572 - 1631)

Photograph of German-English novelist W.G. Sebald.

W.G. Sebald

(1944 - 2001)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Image of medieval traveler Sir John Mandeville.

John Mandeville

(c. 1300 - 1371)

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Derek Walcott

(1930 - 2017)

Engraving of Portuguese poet Luís de Camões.

Luís de Camões

(c. 1525 - 1580)

Author and journalist Caroline Alexander.

Caroline Alexander

Photograph of Sri Lankan memoirist and economist Sonali Deraniyagala.

Sonali Deraniyagala

Painting of English privateer Woodes Rogers.

Woodes Rogers

(c. 1679 - 1732)

Photograph of Scottish physician James Lowson.

James Lowson

(1866 - 1935)

Portrait of West African writer and former slave Olaudah Equiano.

Olaudah Equiano

(c. 1745 - 1797)

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi

(772 - 846)

Black and white photograph of American novelist John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck

(1902 - 1968)

Philip Drake

(c. 1790 - c. 1857)

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Homer

(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)

Janet Schaw

(c. 1731 - c. 1801)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Black and white photograph of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad

(1857 - 1924)

Engraving of Scottish economist Adam Smith.

Adam Smith

(1723 - 1790)

Photograph of American novelist Katherine Anne Porter.

Katherine Anne Porter

(1890 - 1980)

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Horace

(65 BC - 8 BC)

Image of Japanese poet Kakinomoto Hitomaro.

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

(c. 662 - c. 708)

Photograph of British writer Richard Hughes.

Richard Hughes

(1900 - 1976)

Photograph of American novelist Maggie Shipstead.

Maggie Shipstead

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Virgil

(70 BC - 19 BC)

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

(1888 - 1965)

Engraving of Greek satirist Lucian.

Lucian

(125 - c. 180)

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Anyte

(c. 320 BC - c. 280 BC)

Photograph of African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes.

Langston Hughes

(1902 - 1967)

Moses Smith

(1783 - 1870)

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

Black and white photograph of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

Marina Tsvetaeva

(1892 - 1941)

Painting of François Rabelais.

François Rabelais

(1494 - 1553)

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Herodotus

(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

(1770 - 1831)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

Photograph of American journalist Sebastian Junger.

Sebastian Junger

Photograph of British explorer and surgeon G. Murray Levick.

G. Murray Levick

(1876 - 1956)

Manuscript image of St. Bede.

Saint Bede

(c. 673 - 735)

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

John Fowles

(1926 - 2005)

Charles Sprawson

(1941 - 2020)

Black and white photograph of American poet Marianne Moore.

Marianne Moore

(1887 - 1972)

Photograph of former U.S. President Millard Fillmore.

Millard Fillmore

(1800 - 1874)

Photograph of American dramatist Eugene O’Neill.

Eugene O’Neill

(1888 - 1953)

Image of English journalist and sociologist Henry Mayhew.

Henry Mayhew

(1812 - 1887)

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Matsuo Basho

(1644 - 1694)

Photograph of British historian and diplomat James Bryce.

James Bryce

(1838 - 1922)

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Guy de Maupassant

(1850 - 1893)

Color image of English novelist Charlotte Brontë with book in hand.

Charlotte Brontë

(1816 - 1855)

Photograph of American writer Lawrence Wright.

Lawrence Wright

Achilles Tatius

(c. 200 - c. 250)

Photograph of American oceanographer Charles Moore.

Charles Moore

Photograph of British writer and journalist Simon Winchester.

Simon Winchester

Engraving of Italian adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri.

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

(1651 - 1725)

Engraving of the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta.

Ibn Battuta

(1304 - c. 1369)

Photograph of Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Italo Calvino

(1923 - 1985)

Photograph of American dramatist Edward Albee.

Edward Albee

(1928 - 2016)

Black and white photograph of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850 - 1894)

Orderic Vitalis

(1075 - c. 1142)

Jules Verne

Jules Verne

(1828 - 1905)

Photograph of traveler and writer Isabella Bird.

Isabella Bird

(1831 - 1904)

Color photograph of French oceanic explorer Jacques Cousteau in parka.

Jacques Cousteau

(1910 - 1997)

Painted portrait of Italian navigator Christopher Columbus.

Christopher Columbus

(1451 - 1506)

Portrait of English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith.

Charlotte Smith

(1749 - 1806)

Engraving of Pliny the Elder.

Pliny the Elder

(23 - 79)

Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Herman Melville

(1819 - 1891)

Jack Thayer

(1894 - 1945)

Photograph of American writer and naturalist Henry Beston.

Henry Beston

(1888 - 1968)

Painted portrait of British explorer James Cook.

James Cook

(1728 - 1779)

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Plutarch

(46 - c. 120)

Photograph of American food writer M.F.K. Fisher with cat.

M.F.K. Fisher

(1908 - 1992)

Photograph of American novelist Kate Chopin.

Kate Chopin

(1851 - 1904)

Sepia toned photograph of Lewis Carroll in a suit, reading a book

Lewis Carroll

(1832 - 1898)