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Solomon Northup
(c. 1807 - c. 1857)
Edward Abbey
(1927 - 1989)
William Bullein
(c. 1515 - 1576)
Ur-Nammu
(2112 BC - 2095 BC)
Gregory of Nyssa
(c. 335 - c. 395)
Bartolomé de Las Casas
(1484 - 1566)
Joseph Brodsky
(1940 - 1996)
John Thomas Stanley
(1766 - 1850)
Theodore H. White
(1915 - 1986)
Huynh Sanh Thong
(1926 - 2008)
Ibn Battuta
(1304 - c. 1369)
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861 - 1941)
Carolina Maria de Jesus
(1914 - 1977)
Mary Austin
(1868 - 1934)
Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626)
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
(1632 - 1723)
Wilfred Thesiger
(1910 - 2003)
François-René de Chateaubriand
(1768 - 1848)
Gustave Flaubert
(1821 - 1880)
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
(c. 310 - c. 395)
Cyrus Thomas
(1825 - 1910)
Wang Gai
(c. 1650 - c. 1710)
Joan Didion
(1934 - 2021)
Bernard De Voto
(1897 - 1955)
Gabriel García Márquez
(1927 - 2014)
William Faulkner
(1897 - 1962)
Li Daoyuan
(c. 472 - 527)
Sextus Julius Frontinus
(c. 40 - 103)
A.R. Ammons
(1926 - 2001)
Loren Eiseley
(1907 - 1977)
James G. Frazer
(1854 - 1941)
Saint Teresa of Ávila
(1515 - 1582)
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452 - 1519)
Tobias Smollett
(1721 - 1771)
Michel Foucault
(1926 - 1984)
Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)
Pliny the Elder
(23 - 79)
Rachel Carson
(1907 - 1964)
Alexander von Humboldt
(1769 - 1859)
Annalee Jacoby
(1916 - 2002)
Wu Cheng’en
(c. 1500 - c. 1582)
Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)
Anna Jameson
(1794 - 1860)