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Portrait bust of Greek dramatist Aeschylus.

Aeschylus

(c. 525 BC - 456 BC)

Author and journalist Caroline Alexander.

Caroline Alexander

Jorge Amado (AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Jorge Amado

(1912 - 2001)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

James Baldwin

(1924 - 1987)

Andrés Bernáldez

(1450 - 1513)

Steve Biko

(1946 - 1977)

Ernst Bloch

(1885 - 1977)

Tadeusz Borowski

(1922 - 1951)

Susan Brownmiller

Painted portrait of British statesman and political thinker Edmund Burke.

Edmund Burke

(1729 - 1797)

Black and white image of English scholar, writer, and clergyman Robert Burton.

Robert Burton

(1577 - 1640)

Walter Cannon

(1871 - 1945)

Central Intelligence Agency

Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(106 BC - 43 BC)

E.M. Cioran

(1911 - 1995)

Photograph of American writer and professor Paul Collins.

Paul Collins

Hannah Crafts

(c. 1830 - c. 1880)

Photograph of American novelist and short story writer Stephen Crane.

Stephen Crane

(1871 - 1900)

Edwidge Danticat

Image of English naturalist Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Diego Durán

(c. 1537 - 1588)

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

Epictetus

(c. 55 - c. 135)