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William Clark's expedition diary
An open medieval ledger book with handwritten Italian text on aged pages and a worn red leather cover, attributed to Pepo degli Albizzi of Florence.
Robert Falcon Scott
Two pages of Andrew Rodgers's Oregon Trail journal from 1845, filled with dense, cursive handwritten text describing trail experiences and conditions.
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Diarist Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
English diarist and naval administrator
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Patricia Highsmith sits in a wooden chair beside a desk with a typewriter and papers at her home in Locarno, Switzerland.
Patricia Highsmith
American writer
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
English author
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
German diarist
Portrait of novelist Frances Burney
Frances Burney
British author
Edmond and Jules Goncourt (in a box at the theater), lithograph by Paul Gavarni, 1853
Edmond and Jules Goncourt
French authors
Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648
John Evelyn
English author
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Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Konrad Kujau
German author
Fanny Kemble, detail from an engraving by A. Chappel after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1830.
Fanny Kemble
British actress
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese courtier and author
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
American writer