Herodotus

(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)

Madame de Sévigné

(1626 - 1696)

William Hazlitt

(1778 - 1830)

St. Dimitry of Rostov

(1651 - 1709)

H.G. Bissinger

Sylvia Plath

(1932 - 1963)

Gustave Flaubert

(1821 - 1880)

François Rabelais

(1494 - 1553)

José Martí

(1853 - 1895)

Nazira Zain al-Din

(1908 - 1976)

Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maqqari

(1578 - 1632)

Procopius

(c. 490 - c. 562)

Angela Carter

(1940 - 1992)

Baldassare Castiglione

(1478 - 1529)

Li Ruzhen

(c. 1763 - 1830)

Sojourner Truth

(c. 1797 - 1883)

Elizabeth Bishop

(1911 - 1979)

Émile Zola

(1840 - 1902)

Elizabeth Hawes

(1903 - 1971)

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Cassiodorus

(c. 490 - c. 585)

Dorothy Parker

(1893 - 1967)

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

Friedrich Engels

(1820 - 1895)

Homer

(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)

Mineko Iwasaki

Luís de Camões

(c. 1525 - 1580)

Clarice Lispector

(1920 - 1977)

Eliza Haywood

(c. 1693 - 1756)

Montesquieu

(1689 - 1755)

Sextus Propertius

(c. 50 BC - c. 16 BC)

Cintra Wilson

John Lydon

Franz Kafka

(1883 - 1924)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Denis Diderot

(1713 - 1784)

Giacomo Leopardi

(1798 - 1837)

Emily Post

(1872 - 1960)

Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff

(1774 - 1852)

Robert Herrick

(1591 - 1674)

Valerie Steele

Chandler Burr

James Laver

(1889 - 1975)

Diana Vreeland

(1903 - 1989)

Georg Simmel

(1858 - 1918)

Azadeh Moaveni

Waris Dirie

Nikolai Gogol

(1809 - 1852)

Malcolm X

(1925 - 1965)

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

(1675 - 1755)

Bobbito Garcia

Georg Schweinfurth

(1836 - 1925)

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

Coco Chanel

(1883 - 1971)

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

(1876 - 1944)

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Matsuo Basho

(1644 - 1694)

Amelia Bloomer

(1818 - 1894)

Lewis H. Lapham

John Waters

James G. Frazer

(1854 - 1941)

Thorstein Veblen

(1857 - 1929)

Jean de La Bruyère

(1645 - 1696)

Henry David Thoreau

(1817 - 1862)

Murasaki Shikibu

(c. 973 - c. 1031)

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)