Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Marcel Proust

(1871 - 1922)

American writer and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

Barbara Ehrenreich

(1941 - 2022)

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Thucydides

(c. 460 BC - c. 404 BC)

Fanny Burney

(1752 - 1840)

Jacques Ferrand

(c. 1575 - c. 1620)

Sinclair Lewis

(1885 - 1951)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen.

Galen

(129 - c. 216)

Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling

(1865 - 1936)

Susan Sontag

(1933 - 2004)

Black and white photograph of Alsatian-German winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer.

Albert Schweitzer

(1875 - 1965)

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

Hippocrates

(c. 460 BC - c. 375 BC)

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

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

American novelist and short story writer Bernard Cooper.

Bernard Cooper

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Erasmus

(1466 - 1536)

Color photograph of Oliver Sacks with a white beard and glasses.

Oliver Sacks

(1933 - 2015)

Louis Pasteur

(1822 - 1895)

Photograph of Soviet playwright and writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Mikhail Bulgakov

(1891 - 1940)

Iain Bamforth

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

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

Italian poet and librettist Felice Romani.

Felice Romani

(1788 - 1865)

Ken Kesey

(1935 - 2001)

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

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)

Elizabeth Blackwell

(1821 - 1910)

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Molière

(1622 - 1673)

Paddy Chayefsky

(1923 - 1981)

Felix Platter

(1536 - 1614)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi

(772 - 846)

English art historian, novelist and journalist Iain Pears.

Iain Pears

Daniel Defoe

(1660 - 1731)

American poet William Carlos Williams.

William Carlos Williams

(1883 - 1963)

Louisa May Alcott

(1832 - 1888)

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

Moses Maimonides

(1135 - 1204)

Al-Kindi

(c. 801 - c. 870)

Atul Gawande

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)

Black and white photograph of American writer and critic Anatole Broyard.

Anatole Broyard

(1920 - 1990)

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

American writer William Styron.

William Styron

(1925 - 2006)

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing

(1919 - 2013)

John Barth

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

Portrait of English essayist and critic Thomas De Quincey.

Thomas De Quincey

(1785 - 1859)

Li Zhisui

(1919 - 1995)

Andrew Blackbird

(c. 1815 - 1908)

John Wesley

(1703 - 1791)

Mimnermus

(c. 630 BC - c. 600 BC)

Dorothea Dix

(1802 - 1887)

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

John Donne

(1572 - 1631)

Soranus

(c. 150 - c. 200)

Founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy George Ohsawa.

George Ohsawa

(1893 - 1966)

Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

John Crowley

English writer Jerome K. Jerome.

Jerome K. Jerome

(1859 - 1927)

Andreas Vesalius

(1514 - 1564)

Surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

Richard Selzer

(1928 - 2016)

Jonathan Lyons

Noga Arikha

James Orbinski

Hammurabi

(1810 BC - 1750 BC)

Persian philosopher and scientist Avicenna.

Avicenna

(980 - 1037)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

David Foster Wallace

(1962 - 2008)

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

Photograph of American clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Black and white photograph of scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis

(1898 - 1963)

Jean-Dominique Bauby

(1952 - 1997)