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

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

(1743 - 1825)

American showman P.T. Barnum.

P.T. Barnum

(1810 - 1891)

Jean Baudrillard

(1929 - 2007)

Painted portrait of Native American leader Black Hawk.

Black Hawk

(1767 - 1838)

Rod Blagojevich

Italian poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio.

Giovanni Boccaccio

(1313 - 1375)

German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Bertolt Brecht

(1898 - 1956)

Black power leader H. Rap Brown.

H. Rap Brown

James M. Cain

(1892 - 1977)

Korean poet and playwright Kim Chi-ha.

Kim Chi-ha

Portrait of English lyrical poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772 - 1834)

Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri

(1265 - 1321)

George Devol

(1829 - 1903)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

Engraving of a bearded man seated with a crutch and writing at a desk

Epictetus

(c. 55 - c. 135)

Black and white photograph of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald sitting at a desk.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896 - 1940)

Canadian-born American economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

John Kenneth Galbraith

(1908 - 2006)

Joseph Goebbels

(1897 - 1945)

Patricia Highsmith

(1921 - 1995)

Chester Himes

(1909 - 1984)

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Horace

(65 BC - 8 BC)

Robert Hughes

(1938 - 2012)

American abolitionist and author Harriet Jacobs.

Harriet Jacobs

(1813 - 1897)