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American black militant Eldridge Cleaver.

Eldridge Cleaver

(1935 - 1998)

Chinese philosopher Confucius.

Confucius

(551 BC - 479 BC)

Photograph of British writer Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl

(1916 - 1990)

Salvador Dalí

(1904 - 1989)

Andrew Delbanco

Don DeLillo standing outside in a jacket, black and white photo

Don DeLillo

American essayist and critic William Deresiewicz.

William Deresiewicz

French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes.

René Descartes

(1596 - 1650)

John Dewey

(1859 - 1952)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

French man of letters Denis Diderot.

Denis Diderot

(1713 - 1784)

Illustration of a bearded man in profile carrying a lantern and holding a scroll.

Diogenes Laërtius

(c. 201 - c. 300)

Photograph of African American abolitionist and U.S. diplomat Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

Profile of a man with curly hair and goatee wearing a black jacket and white shirt

Dave Eggers

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803 - 1882)

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Erasmus

(1466 - 1536)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

(1762 - 1814)

Stanley Fish

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896 - 1940)

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault.

Michel Foucault

(1926 - 1984)

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Gao Yuan

Graham Greene

(1904 - 1991)

Black and white photograph of German writer Hermann Hesse.

Hermann Hesse

(1877 - 1962)