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Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

Photograph of Danish writer Isak Dinesen.

Isak Dinesen

(1885 - 1962)

Portrait of E.M. Forster by Dora Carrington.

E.M. Forster

(1879 - 1970)

Eduardo Galeano

(1940 - 2015)

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749 - 1832)

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Heinrich Heine

(1797 - 1856)

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Herodotus

(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)

Bust of Hesiod

Hesiod

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Homer

(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)

British author Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley

(1894 - 1963)

Joris-Karl Huysmans

(1848 - 1907)

Engraving of the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta.

Ibn Battuta

(1304 - c. 1369)

Essayist and novelist Pico Iyer.

Pico Iyer

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson

(1743 - 1826)

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Ryszard Kapuściński

(1932 - 2007)

Margery Kempe

(c. 1373 - c. 1438)

Photograph of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac

(1922 - 1969)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Painting of a gray-haired man looking to the left

Meriwether Lewis

(1774 - 1809)

Livy

(c. 59 BC - c. 17)

Engraving of Greek satirist Lucian.

Lucian

(125 - c. 180)

French author Xavier de Maistre.

Xavier de Maistre

(1763 - 1852)

Photograph of pilot, horse trainer, writer, and adventurer Beryl Markham on horseback.

Beryl Markham

(1902 - 1986)

New York-based author Suketu Mehta.

Suketu Mehta