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English diarist and naval administrator

James Boswell.

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

André Gide

French writer

Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

George Fox

George Fox

English religious leader

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Portrait of novelist Frances Burney

Frances Burney

British author

Anne Frank

Anne Frank

German diarist

Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648

John Evelyn

English author

Fanny Kemble, detail from an engraving by A. Chappel after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1830.

Fanny Kemble

British actress

Maria Dąbrowska

Polish author and critic

Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.

Evelyn Waugh

English author

Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss

Adelbert von Chamisso

German-language lyricist

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

French author

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese courtier and author

Frank Wedekind, 1918.

Frank Wedekind

German actor and dramatist

William Byrd of Westover

William Byrd of Westover

American colonial diarist

Perpetua

Christian martyr

Witold Gombrowicz

Polish author