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T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

(1888 - 1965)

Portrait of West African writer and former slave Olaudah Equiano.

Olaudah Equiano

(c. 1745 - 1797)

Photograph of former U.S. President Millard Fillmore.

Millard Fillmore

(1800 - 1874)

Photograph of American food writer M.F.K. Fisher with cat.

M.F.K. Fisher

(1908 - 1992)

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

John Fowles

(1926 - 2005)

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 - 1790)

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Engraving of Italian adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri.

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

(1651 - 1725)

Photograph of English literary historian and critic Edmund Gosse.

Edmund Gosse

(1849 - 1928)

Photograph of American writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn.

Lafcadio Hearn

(1850 - 1904)

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

(1770 - 1831)

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Herodotus

(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)

Image of Japanese poet Kakinomoto Hitomaro.

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

(c. 662 - c. 708)

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Homer

(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Horace

(65 BC - 8 BC)

Photograph of British writer Richard Hughes.

Richard Hughes

(1900 - 1976)

Photograph of African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes.

Langston Hughes

(1902 - 1967)

Engraving of the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta.

Ibn Battuta

(1304 - c. 1369)

Photograph of American journalist Sebastian Junger.

Sebastian Junger

Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

William Langewiesche

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Photograph of British explorer and surgeon G. Murray Levick.

G. Murray Levick

(1876 - 1956)

Photograph of Scottish physician James Lowson.

James Lowson

(1866 - 1935)

Engraving of Greek satirist Lucian.

Lucian

(125 - c. 180)