Sinclair Lewis

(1885 - 1951)

Fanny Burney

(1752 - 1840)

American writer and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

Barbara Ehrenreich

(1941 - 2022)

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Marcel Proust

(1871 - 1922)

Italian poet and librettist Felice Romani.

Felice Romani

(1788 - 1865)

English writer Jerome K. Jerome.

Jerome K. Jerome

(1859 - 1927)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher Galen.

Galen

(129 - c. 216)

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Molière

(1622 - 1673)

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

Anatole Broyard

(1920 - 1990)

John Wesley

(1703 - 1791)

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Thucydides

(c. 460 BC - c. 404 BC)

Jean-Dominique Bauby

(1952 - 1997)

Susan Sontag

(1933 - 2004)

Li Zhisui

(1919 - 1995)

Louis Pasteur

(1822 - 1895)

English art historian, novelist and journalist Iain Pears.

Iain Pears

Surgeon and author Richard Selzer.

Richard Selzer

(1928 - 2016)

Paddy Chayefsky

(1923 - 1981)

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

David Foster Wallace

(1962 - 2008)

Iain Bamforth

Persian philosopher and scientist Avicenna.

Avicenna

(980 - 1037)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Noga Arikha

American writer William Styron.

William Styron

(1925 - 2006)

Photograph of American clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.

Kay Redfield Jamison

American novelist and short story writer Bernard Cooper.

Bernard Cooper

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

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

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

John Crowley

James Orbinski

Photograph of Soviet playwright and writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Mikhail Bulgakov

(1891 - 1940)

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

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Founder of the Macrobiotic diet and philosophy George Ohsawa.

George Ohsawa

(1893 - 1966)

Soranus

(c. 150 - c. 200)

Elizabeth Blackwell

(1821 - 1910)

American poet William Carlos Williams.

William Carlos Williams

(1883 - 1963)

Atul Gawande

Dorothea Dix

(1802 - 1887)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

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

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

Louisa May Alcott

(1832 - 1888)

Mimnermus

(c. 630 BC - c. 600 BC)

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

Hammurabi

(1810 BC - 1750 BC)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

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

Albert Schweitzer

(1875 - 1965)

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

Moses Maimonides

(1135 - 1204)

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

Hippocrates

(c. 460 BC - c. 375 BC)

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

John Donne

(1572 - 1631)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Doris Lessing

(1919 - 2013)

Daniel Defoe

(1660 - 1731)

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

C.S. Lewis

(1898 - 1963)

Jacques Ferrand

(c. 1575 - c. 1620)

Photograph of English poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling.

Rudyard Kipling

(1865 - 1936)

Andrew Blackbird

(c. 1815 - 1908)

Felix Platter

(1536 - 1614)

Ken Kesey

(1935 - 2001)

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf

(1882 - 1941)

John Barth

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Erasmus

(1466 - 1536)

Jonathan Lyons

Al-Kindi

(c. 801 - c. 870)

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

Oliver Sacks

(1933 - 2015)

Portrait of English essayist and critic Thomas De Quincey.

Thomas De Quincey

(1785 - 1859)

Andreas Vesalius

(1514 - 1564)

Joan Didion

(1934 - 2021)

Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi

(772 - 846)

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

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)