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Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri

(1265 - 1321)

Image of English naturalist Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)

Rana Dasgupta

William Davies

French man of letters Denis Diderot.

Denis Diderot

(1713 - 1784)

Émilie du Châtelet

(1706 - 1749)

Claire de Duras

(1777 - 1828)

Epicurus

(c. 341 BC - c. 270 BC)

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

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Henry Freedland

Henry Freedland

Betty Friedan

(1921 - 2006)

Painting of Ivan Goncharov sitting in a chair.

Ivan Goncharov

(1812 - 1891)

Jay Griffiths

Photograph by Brendan Schulman (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Dara Horn

Samuel Johnson

(1709 - 1784)

Margery Kempe

(c. 1373 - c. 1438)

Jane Kenyon

(1947 - 1995)

Depiction of Persian mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam.

Omar Khayyam

(1048 - 1131)

Black and white image of German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist.

Heinrich von Kleist

(1777 - 1811)

Jiddu Krishnamurti

(1895 - 1986)

Photograph by Elisa Cabot. (CC BY 2.0)

Milan Kundera

Rose Wilder Lane

(1886 - 1968)

Giacomo Leopardi

(1798 - 1837)

Clarice Lispector

(1920 - 1977)