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Abu Mashar

(787 - 886)

Portrait bust of Greek dramatist Aeschylus.

Aeschylus

(c. 525 BC - 456 BC)

Black and white photograph of American writer James Agee.

James Agee

(1909 - 1955)

Akhenaten

(c. 1363 BC - 1336 BC)

Al-Masudi

(c. 893 - c. 956)

Rabih Alameddine

Giovanni Aldini

(1762 - 1834)

Donald Antrim

Persian philosopher and scientist Avicenna.

Avicenna

(980 - 1037)

B. Traven

(c. 1890 - 1969)

Essad Bey

(1905 - 1942)

William Blake

(1757 - 1827)

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

(1608 - 1679)

Jose Canseco

Eliza Jane Cate

(1812 - 1884)

Harry M. Caudill

(1922 - 1990)

English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer

(c. 1342 - 1400)

Giacomo Ciamician

(1857 - 1922)

Richard Cohen. Photograph by Christopher Dickey

Richard Cohen

Byzantine historian and daughter of the emperor Anna Comnena.

Anna Comnena

(1083 - c. 1153)

Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

(1867 - 1934)

Marc Da Costa

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)