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British prime minister Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

British logician and philosopher

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

The Shakespeare of his generation

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Portrait of American dramatist Eugene O'Neill in 1936, showing him in a suit and tie with a serious expression and a neatly groomed mustache.

Eugene O’Neill

American dramatist

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

French philosopher

Theodor Mommsen.

Theodor Mommsen

German historian, philologist, and legal scholar

French write and Nobel laureate André Gide

André Gide

French writer

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

portrait of Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Portrait of John Steinbeck in a suit and tie, looking downward with a serious expression.

John Steinbeck

American novelist