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Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Mukhamet Shayakhmetov

British author Mary Shelley.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(1797 - 1851)

Sima Qian

Sima Qian

(c. 145 BC - c. 87 BC)

British writer Laurence Sterne.

Laurence Sterne

(1713 - 1768)

Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Saint Teresa of Ávila

(1515 - 1582)

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Alexis de Tocqueville

(1805 - 1859)

Russian author Ivan Turgenev.

Ivan Turgenev

(1818 - 1883)

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Salka Viertel

(1889 - 1978)

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Derek Walcott

(1930 - 2017)

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892)

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

William Wycherley

(1641 - 1716)

Yuan Zhen

(779 - 831)

Claude Yvon

(1714 - 1791)

French author Émile Zola.

Émile Zola

(1840 - 1902)