Amina Saïd

Painted portrait of English physician and author Thomas Browne.

Thomas Browne

(1605 - 1682)

José Saramago

(1922 - 2010)

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

(1899 - 1986)

Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

(1903 - 1989)

Yoko Ogawa

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Marcel Proust

(1871 - 1922)

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin

(1892 - 1940)

Eric Hobsbawm

(1917 - 2012)

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

(1839 - 1908)

Gene Tracy

Ed Park

Ed Park

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg

(1863 - 1916)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

American writer Lydia Davis.

Lydia Davis

Photograph of American science writer Virginia Morell with dog.

Virginia Morell

Photograph of African American abolitionist and U.S. diplomat Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

Samuel Butler

(1835 - 1902)

Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy

(1828 - 1910)

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)

A.R. Luria

A.R. Luria

(1902 - 1977)

Black and white photograph of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

Luis Buñuel

(1900 - 1983)

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Sculpture bust of Roman teacher and writer Quintilian.

Quintilian

(35 - c. 96)

Homesick Candles

Matteo Ricci

(1552 - 1610)

Gregory Bateson

(1904 - 1980)

Photograph of Jim Holt looking at a book.

Jim Holt

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

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

Ibn Manzur

(1232 - 1311)

Portrait of English lyrical poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772 - 1834)

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

(1859 - 1941)

Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle

Richard Grey

(1694 - 1771)

Lucy Sante

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

(1823 - 1892)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Bust of a bearded man wearing a turban

Al-Maarri

(973 - 1057)

Colorized engraving of Voltaire wearing a wig.

Voltaire

(1694 - 1778)

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712 - 1778)

Lee Sandlin

(1956 - 2014)

Black and white photograph of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

Stefan Zweig

(1881 - 1942)

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Euripides

(c. 484 BC - c. 406 BC)

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

William James

(1842 - 1910)

Louis-François Ramond

(1755 - 1827)

Portrait of Chinese Daoist Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi

(c. 369 BC - 286 BC)

French novelist Gustave Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert

(1821 - 1880)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

(1821 - 1867)

Frederic Harrison

Frederic Harrison

(1831 - 1923)

Maurice Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs

(1877 - 1945)

Mary Antin

Mary Antin

(1881 - 1949)

Mitch Landrieu

Mitch Landrieu

Sarah M. Broom

Liu Yin

(1249 - 1293)

Riverbend

Lady Sarashina

(c. 1008 - c. 1059)

Gerda Saunders

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Richard de Bury

(1287 - 1345)

Kevin Brockmeier

British inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.

Charles Babbage

(1791 - 1871)

Inga Clendinnen

(1934 - 2016)

Pastel drawing of George Eliot.

George Eliot

(1819 - 1880)

John Conyers

John Conyers Jr.

(1929 - 2019)

Joe Brainard

(1942 - 1994)

Walter Map

(c. 1140 - c. 1209)

Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Herman Melville

(1819 - 1891)

Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde

Polish American writer and academic Eva Hoffman.

Eva Hoffman

Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo

(1931 - 2017)

Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga

Pan Yue

(247 - 300)

Photograph of West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Derek Walcott

(1930 - 2017)

Samuel Johnson

(1709 - 1784)

Portrait of English-American writer and polemicist Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine

(1737 - 1809)

Hugh of Saint-Victor

(1096 - 1141)

Sima Qian

Sima Qian

(c. 145 BC - c. 87 BC)

Svetlana Alexievich. Sergento (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Svetlana Alexievich

John Lukacs

(1924 - 2019)

Anne Michaels. Photograph by Marzena Pogorzaly

Anne Michaels

Josephus

(37 - 100)

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

Mary McCarthy

(1912 - 1989)

Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

(1903 - 1991)