Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Man in gray shirt in front of bookshelf

Ian Altman

Smiling man in blue shirt and gray pants

Paul Tough

Woman standing against a wall with her arms crossed

Fleur Jaeggy

Samuel Richardson

(1689 - 1761)

Liu Xiang

(77 BC - 6 BC)

Black and white photograph of English poet and librarian Philip Larkin.

Philip Larkin

(1922 - 1985)

Margaret Haley

(1861 - 1935)

Betsy DeVos

Elfriede Jelinek

Alan Bennett

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

(1746 - 1827)

Austro-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Rainer Maria Rilke

(1875 - 1926)

John of Salisbury

(c. 1115 - 1180)

Zhenzong

(968 - 1022)

Black and white image of English philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill.

John Stuart Mill

(1806 - 1873)

Saadi

(c. 1213 - c. 1291)

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

Moses Maimonides

(1135 - 1204)

Sepia image of a woman with head veiled

Julia Ward Howe

(1819 - 1910)

Moudhy Al-Rashid

Chinese Communist Party

Michelle Kuo

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Cesar Chavez

(1927 - 1993)

British writer Muriel Spark.

Muriel Spark

(1918 - 2006)

Bust of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

(121 - 180)

Photograph of English novelist and satirist T. H. White.

T.H. White

(1906 - 1964)

Young woman wearing black seated on a couch

Eleni Schirmer

Audre Lorde

(1934 - 1992)

Dorothy Butler

(1925 - 2015)

Garrett Epps

Kukai

(774 - 835)

Young man in collarless jacket seated

Andrey Platonov

(1899 - 1951)

Louis Sullivan

(1856 - 1924)

Illustration of a man in fancy dress

Cassiodorus

(c. 490 - c. 585)

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

(1754 - 1838)

Aiping Mu

Aelfric

(c. 955 - c. 1010)

William Wellington Gqoba

(1840 - 1888)

Rudolf Steiner

(1861 - 1925)

Elena Ferrante

Theodore Dwight Weld

(1803 - 1895)

Norman Douglas

(1868 - 1952)

American sociologist and reformer W. E. B. Du Bois.

W.E.B. Du Bois

(1868 - 1963)

Patrick Traherne

(1885 - 1917)

Woman wearing a shawl and writing while seated in a chair

Catharine Beecher

(1800 - 1878)

Young man in tie and jacket

Owen Johnson

(1878 - 1952)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Black and white photograph of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

Stefan Zweig

(1881 - 1942)

Juan Luis Vives

(1492 - 1540)

Mabel Powers

(1872 - 1966)

Jotirao Phule

(1827 - 1890)

Miyamoto Musashi

(1584 - 1645)

John Dury

(1596 - 1680)

Rabindranath Tagore

(1861 - 1941)

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi

(c. 923 - 1023)

Jeff Bryant

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Seated woman wearing glasses and holding up a cigarette

Helen DeWitt

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

Agnes Callard

Kim Man-jung

(1637 - 1692)

Mary Kawena Pukui

(1895 - 1986)

Sculpture of Isocrates at the Parc de Versailles

Isocrates

(463 BC - 338 BC)

Natalia Ginzburg

(1916 - 1991)

St. Benedict

Saint Benedict

(c. 480 - c. 547)

Woman reading at a desk

Maria Montessori

(1870 - 1952)

Fidel Castro

(1926 - 2016)

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin

(1892 - 1940)

Walter Gropius

(1883 - 1969)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

Kim Il-Sung

(1912 - 1994)

German writer Friedrich Schiller.

Friedrich Schiller

(1759 - 1805)

Man in a dark blue suit jacket seated at a desk

Michael D. Hattem

American writer Saul Bellow.

Saul Bellow

(1915 - 2005)

Masuda Sayo

(1925 - 2008)