Archive

Contributors

José de Acosta

(c. 1539 - 1600)

Al-Biruni

(973 - c. 1052)

Black and white photograph of a mustached man wearing glasses with his hand under his chin

Sholem Aleichem

(1859 - 1916)

Ammianus Marcellinus

(c. 330 - 395)

Reinaldo Arenas

(1943 - 1990)

Black and white photograph of political scientist and philosopher Hannah Arendt holding a cigarette.

Hannah Arendt

(1906 - 1975)

Julian Barnes

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Matsuo Basho

(1644 - 1694)

Jack Black

(1871 - 1932)

Aimé Bonpland 

(1773 - 1858)

Giordano Bruno

(1548 - 1600)

Cai Yan

(c. 170 - c. 249)

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

François-René de Chateaubriand

(1768 - 1848)

English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer

(c. 1342 - 1400)

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Cesar Chavez

(1927 - 1993)

Black and white photograph of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad

(1857 - 1924)

Painted portrait of British explorer James Cook.

James Cook

(1728 - 1779)

French-American author J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur.

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

(1735 - 1813)

Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri

(1265 - 1321)

Richard Dawkins

Bernard De Voto

(1897 - 1955)

Black and white photograph of a woman with chin-length dark hair wearing a sleeveless turtleneck

Stephanie DeGooyer

Color photograph of American writer Annie Dillard.

Annie Dillard