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Bust of a bearded man wearing a turban

Al-Maarri

(973 - 1057)

Svetlana Alexievich. Sergento (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Svetlana Alexievich

Mary Antin

Mary Antin

(1881 - 1949)

Saint Augustine (detail), by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645.

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

British inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.

Charles Babbage

(1791 - 1871)

Gregory Bateson

(1904 - 1980)

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

(1821 - 1867)

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin

(1892 - 1940)

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

(1859 - 1941)

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

(1899 - 1986)

Joe Brainard

(1942 - 1994)

Kevin Brockmeier

Sarah M. Broom

Painted portrait of English physician and author Thomas Browne.

Thomas Browne

(1605 - 1682)

Black and white photograph of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

Luis Buñuel

(1900 - 1983)

Samuel Butler

(1835 - 1902)

Inga Clendinnen

(1934 - 2016)

Portrait of English lyrical poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772 - 1834)

John Conyers

John Conyers Jr.

(1929 - 2019)

American writer Lydia Davis.

Lydia Davis

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

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

Pastel drawing of George Eliot.

George Eliot

(1819 - 1880)

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Euripides

(c. 484 BC - c. 406 BC)

French novelist Gustave Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert

(1821 - 1880)