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Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

John Locke

(1632 - 1704)

Cesare Lombroso

(1835 - 1909)

Norman Mailer

(1923 - 2007)

Black and white photograph of African-American leader Malcolm X.

Malcolm X

(1925 - 1965)

Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Herman Melville

(1819 - 1891)

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

H.L. Mencken

(1880 - 1956)

color oil painting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a red tunic with gray hair

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(1756 - 1791)

Haruki Murakami

Péter Nádas

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe

(1567 - c. 1601)

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Black and white engraving of Roman poet Ovid in profile.

Ovid

(43 BC - c. 17)

Rick Perlstein

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Matthew Power

(1974 - 2014)

Nathaniel Rich

Richard I

(1157 - 1199)

Color portrait of French radical Jacobin leader Maximilien de Robespierre.

Maximilien Robespierre

(1758 - 1794)

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712 - 1778)

Roman historian Sallust.

Sallust

(c. 86 BC - c. 34 BC)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

(1918 - 2008)