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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)
Edward Gibbon
(1737 - 1794)
Plato
(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)
Pliny the Younger
(61 - 112)
Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313 - 1375)
John Berryman
(1914 - 1972)
Heinrich Heine
(1797 - 1856)
Truman Capote
(1924 - 1984)
Andy Warhol
(1928 - 1987)
Edmund Wilson
(1895 - 1972)
John Lennon
(1940 - 1980)
Wallace Stevens
(1879 - 1955)
Daniel Boorstin
(1914 - 2004)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
(1647 - 1680)
John Dos Passos
(1896 - 1970)
Lillie Langtry
(1853 - 1929)
Alexander Pope
(1688 - 1744)
Valerius Maximus
(c. 20 BC - c. 50 BC)
Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759 - 1797)
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811 - 1863)
Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
Ludovico Ariosto
(1474 - 1533)
Muriel Spark
(1918 - 2006)
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
Frank O’Hara
(1926 - 1966)
Lewis H. Lapham
(1935 - 2024)
François Villon
(1431 - c. 1463)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830)
Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Charles Lindbergh
(1902 - 1974)
Joan Didion
(1934 - 2021)
Hannah Arendt
(1906 - 1975)
James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
Roland Barthes
(1915 - 1980)
Leo Tolstoy
(1828 - 1910)
Virginia Woolf
(1882 - 1941)
Edmond Goncourt
(1822 - 1896)
Saul Bellow
(1915 - 2005)
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547 - 1616)
Robert Graves
(1895 - 1985)
Dio Cassius
(c. 150 - 235)
Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886)
Philip Roth
(1933 - 2018)
Fredrick Treves
(1853 - 1923)
George Eliot
(1819 - 1880)
Christine de Pisan
(1364 - c. 1430)
T.E. Lawrence
(1888 - 1935)
Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792 - 1822)
Marcel Proust
(1871 - 1922)
P.T. Barnum
(1810 - 1891)
Christopher Marlowe
(1564 - 1593)
Thomas Aquinas
(c. 1224 - 1274)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 BC - 43 BC)
Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823 - 1911)
Charles Mackay
(1814 - 1889)
Michel de Montaigne
(1533 - 1592)
Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745)
Ur-Nammu
(2112 BC - 2095 BC)
Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626)
William Faulkner
(1897 - 1962)
Charles Dickens
(1812 - 1870)
Giorgio Vasari
(1511 - 1574)
Yoshida Kenko
(c. 1283 - c. 1351)