Balzac, Honoré de
 

1799 - 1850
Father of The Human Comedy.

Brecht, Bertolt
 

1898 - 1956
German playwright.

Churchill, Winston
 

1874 - 1965
Cigar.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
 

106 - 43 BC
Tully.

Clemenceau, Georges
 

1841 - 1929
French premier and playwright.

Diderot, Denis
 

1713 - 1784
Jean-Jacques's buddy. At least for a while.

Disraeli, Benjamin
 

1804 - 1881
Dizzy.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
 

1821 - 1881
Master of the novel.

Engels, Friedrich
 

1820 - 1895
Karl's friend.

Faulkner, William
 

1897 - 1962
American writer.

Fontenelle, Bernard de
 

1657 - 1757
Montesquieu's pal.

Frank, Anne
 

1929 - 1945
Diary.

Franklin, Benjamin
 

1706 - 1790
Inventor of everything.

Friedan, Betty
 

1921 - 2006
Feminine Mystique.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
 

1749 - 1832
German genius.

Gorky, Maksim
 

1868 - 1936
Writer. Russian.

Grotius, Hugo
 

1583 - 1645
Smart man of the law from Holland.

Havel, Vaclav
 

Born 1936
Playwright and politician.

Hemingway, Ernest
 

1899 - 1961
Novel.

Hesiod
 

Around 700 BC
Greek poet.

Homer
 

Before 700 BC
Ilias and Odyssey.

Horace
 

65 - 8 BC
Roman poet.

Hugo, Victor Marie
 

1802 - 1885
French writer and politician.

Hume, David
 

1711 - 1776
Brain from Edinburgh.

Ibsen, Henrik
 

1828 - 1906
Norwegian shocker.

Kafka, Franz
 

1883 - 1924
Depressed and brilliant.

Kant, Immanuel
 

1724 - 1804
German philosopher.

Lawrence of Arabia
 

1888 - 1935
Devoted biker, occasional camel rider.

Lunacharsky, Anatoly
 

1875 - 1933
Russian patron of the arts.

Mann, Thomas
 

1875 - 1955
Enjoy your trip to Venice.

Marx, Karl Heinrich
 

1818 - 1883
Communism.

Mill, John Stuart
 

1806 - 1873
British philosopher.

Montesquieu
 

1689 - 1755
A thinker.

Nietzsche, Friedrich
 

1844 - 1900
German thinker.

Pearse, Patrick Henry
 

1879 - 1916
Irish.

Plato
 

428 - 347 BC
Academy.

Plutarch
 

46 - 119
Writing maniac.

Poe, Edgar Allan
 

1809 - 1849
Mystery writer.

Proust, Marcel
 

1871 - 1922
French novelist.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 

1712 - 1778
Wrote letters to people that sat across the table.

Russell, Bertrand
 

1872 - 1970
Thinker from Wales.

Sand, George
 

1804 - 1876
Aurore Dupin.

Sartre, Jean-Paul
 

1905 - 1980
Didn't want his Nobel Prize.

Schopenhauer, Arthur
 

1788 - 1860
Philosopher of pessimism.

Shakespeare, William
 

1564 - 1616
Playwright.

Shaw, George Bernard
 

1856 - 1950
Irish writer.

Simonides of Ceos
 

556 - 468 BC
Greek poetry.

Socrates
 

470 - 399 BC
Philosopher.

Tennyson, Alfred
 

1809 - 1892
Poet.

Tocqueville, Alexis de
 

1805 - 1859
French Observer.

Twain, Mark
 

1835 - 1910
Novelist.

Virgil
 

70 - 19 BC
Roman poet.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
 

1694 - 1778
The one with the sharp remarks.

Wilmot, John
 

1647 - 1680
Depp, Johnny.