Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

male, 46 years old (United States)
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the...
Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

male, deceased (1890)
Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the c...
H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

male, deceased (1956) (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social...
Alan Watts

Alan Watts

male, deceased (1973)
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. He was best known...
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

female, deceased (1817)
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works include "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice",...
Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

male, deceased (1983)
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was conc...
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
James Baldwin

James Baldwin

male, deceased (1987)
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel "Go Tell It on the...
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

male, deceased (1870)
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as...
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

male, deceased (1924)
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's...