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Painted portrait of Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Niccolò Machiavelli

(1469 - 1527)

Marbod of Rennes

(c. 1035 - 1123)

Subcomandante Marcos

Patrick J. McGinnis

John G. Neihardt

(1881 - 1973)

Hans Erich Nossack

(1901 - 1977)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Pausanias

(c. 110 - c. 180)

Philippe Petit

Photograph of American short-story writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 1849)

Atiq Rahimi

Emma Reyes

(1919 - 2003)

Color portrait of French radical Jacobin leader Maximilien de Robespierre.

Maximilien Robespierre

(1758 - 1794)

Marilynne Robinson

Black and white photograph of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt

(1858 - 1919)

Ihara Saikaku

(1642 - 1693)

English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon.

Siegfried Sassoon

(1886 - 1967)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Judith N. Shklar

(1928 - 1992)

Charles Simic

William Sloane

(1906 - 1974)

Wole Soyinka

Painting of a man with shoulder-length curly hair wearing a white square collar

Benedict de Spinoza

(1632 - 1677)

Suetonius

(69 - c. 130)