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Diodorus Siculus

(c. 90 BC - c. 20 BC)

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

Diogenes Laërtius

(c. 201 - c. 300)

Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

(c. 60 BC - c. 7 BC)

Book critic Michael Dirda.

Michael Dirda

Waris Dirie

Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli.

Benjamin Disraeli

(1804 - 1881)

Black and white photograph of Danish author Tove Ditlevsen.

Tove Ditlevsen

(1917 - 1976)

Dorothea Dix

(1802 - 1887)

Assia Djebar

(1936 - 2015)

Alfred Döblin

(1878 - 1957)

E.L. Doctorow

(1931 - 2015)

Image of Japanese Buddhist monk Dōgen.

Dōgen

(1200 - 1253)

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

John Donne

(1572 - 1631)

Moira Donovan

American novelist John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

(1896 - 1970)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

British traveler Charles M. Doughty.

Charles M. Doughty

(1843 - 1926)

Photograph of American politician and orator Stephen Douglas standing.

Stephen Douglas

(1813 - 1861)

Norman Douglas

(1868 - 1952)

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

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

Margaret Drabble

Philip Drake

(c. 1790 - c. 1857)

American writer Theodore Dreiser.

Theodore Dreiser

(1871 - 1945)

Nadja Drost