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Harriet Jacobs
(1813 - 1897)
François Rabelais
(1494 - 1553)
Usama Ibn Munqidh
(1095 - 1188)
Franz Kafka
(1883 - 1924)
Sei Shonagon
(c. 966 - c. 1025)
Saint Benedict
(c. 480 - c. 547)
Yoshida Kenko
(c. 1283 - c. 1351)
Homer
(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)
Daniel Defoe
(1660 - 1731)
Charlotte Brontë
(1816 - 1855)
Marcus Aurelius
(121 - 180)
Anton Chekhov
(1860 - 1904)
Bernard Mandeville
(1670 - 1733)
Thorstein Veblen
(1857 - 1929)
Barbara Ehrenreich
(1941 - 2022)
Geoffrey Chaucer
(c. 1342 - 1400)
Nikolai Gogol
(1809 - 1852)
Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963)
Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970)
Pliny the Elder
(23 - 79)
Zhuangzi
(c. 369 BC - 286 BC)
Robert Southey
(1774 - 1843)
Langston Hughes
(1902 - 1967)
Robert Burton
(1577 - 1640)
Umberto Eco
(1932 - 2016)
Olaudah Equiano
(c. 1745 - 1797)
Martin Luther
(1483 - 1546)
John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968)
Edwin Lefèvre
(1871 - 1943)
Philip Larkin
(1922 - 1985)
Agnès Humbert
(1894 - 1963)
George Moore
(1852 - 1933)
Theodore Dreiser
(1871 - 1945)
Woody Guthrie
(1912 - 1967)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756 - 1791)
John Calvin
(1509 - 1564)
Marie Curie
(1867 - 1934)
Terence
(c. 195 BC - c. 159 BC)
Norman Maclean
(1902 - 1990)
Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)
Charles Mingus
(1922 - 1979)
Niccolò Machiavelli
(1469 - 1527)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797 - 1851)
Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)
Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)
Ralph Ellison
(1914 - 1994)
Richard Yates
(1926 - 1992)
Isabella Mary Beeton
(1836 - 1865)
E.T.A. Hoffmann
(1776 - 1822)
Theodor Adorno
(1903 - 1969)