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Abu al-ʿAtahiya

(748 - c. 825)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Saint Augustine (detail), by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645.

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

Francis Bacon

(1561 - 1626)

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

(1821 - 1867)

St. Benedict

Saint Benedict

(c. 480 - c. 547)

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

(1859 - 1941)

Black and white photograph of Sven Birkerts sitting in front of a bookshelf.

Sven Birkerts

Image from an illuminated manuscript of Boethius teaching two students.

Boethius

(c. 480 - c. 524)

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

(1899 - 1986)

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

Lewis Carroll

(1832 - 1898)

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

Black and white photograph of C. P. Cavafy wearing thick-rimmed black glasses.

C.P. Cavafy

(1863 - 1933)

Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

John Crowley

Photograph of Colin Dickey standing in front of a brick wall.

Colin Dickey

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

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)

Image of Japanese Buddhist monk Dōgen.

Dōgen

(1200 - 1253)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Photograph of Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany

(1878 - 1957)

Albert Einstein in a suit and tie standing in front of a chalkboard

Albert Einstein

(1879 - 1955)

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

(1888 - 1965)

Photograph of William Faulkner sitting in a chair.

William Faulkner

(1897 - 1962)

Black and white photograph of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald sitting at a desk.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896 - 1940)