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Abu Hatim al-Razi

(c. 850 - c. 950)

Leon Battista Alberti

(1404 - 1472)

Ross Andersen

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Roger Bacon

(c. 1220 - c. 1292)

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

Francis Bacon

(1561 - 1626)

Hugo Ball

(1886 - 1927)

John Banville

Andrea Barrett

William Beebe

(1877 - 1962)

Photograph of New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger.

Burkhard Bilger

János Bolyai

(1802 - 1860)

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

(1899 - 1986)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

(1849 - 1924)

Margaret Cavendish

(1623 - 1673)

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

(1894 - 1961)

Photograph of American novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler.

Raymond Chandler

(1888 - 1959)

Ted Chiang

French poet and author Christine de Pisan.

Christine de Pisan

(1364 - c. 1430)

Portrait of English lyrical poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772 - 1834)

American author Evan S. Connell.

Evan S. Connell

(1924 - 2013)

Ève Curie

(1904 - 2007)

Image of English naturalist Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)