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English economist and demographer Thomas Malthus.

Thomas Malthus

(1766 - 1834)

José Martí

(1853 - 1895)

black and white photo of Groucho Marx wearing glasses and smoking a cigar from the side of his mouth

Groucho Marx

(1890 - 1977)

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason.

Daniel Mason

Black and white photograph of Mencken looking over his shoulder at the camera

H.L. Mencken

(1880 - 1956)

Lewis Mumford

(1895 - 1990)

French novelist Irène Némirovsky.

Irène Némirovsky

(1903 - 1942)

Photograph of American journalist and novelist George Packer.

George Packer

Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

Orhan Pamuk

English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys.

Samuel Pepys

(1633 - 1703)

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Fernando Pessoa

(1888 - 1935)

Engraving of Roman author and administrator Pliny the Younger.

Pliny the Younger

(61 - 112)

American politician from New York George W. Plunkitt.

George W. Plunkitt

(1842 - 1924)

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Plutarch

(46 - c. 120)

Mosaic portrait of a bearded man in red holding a book

Marco Polo

(1254 - 1324)

American novelist Richard Powers.

Richard Powers

Procopius

(c. 490 - c. 562)

Painting of François Rabelais.

François Rabelais

(1494 - 1553)

Sufi mystic and poet Rumi.

Rumi

(c. 1207 - 1273)

Salman Rushdie

Lucy Sante

American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

William Tecumseh Sherman

(1820 - 1891)

German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel.

Georg Simmel

(1858 - 1918)

Engraving of Scottish economist Adam Smith.

Adam Smith

(1723 - 1790)