9101. Kerstin Hall

9102. H.M. Long

9103. Scott Palmer

9104. Sophia Slade

9105. Greg Melville

9106. James Tynion IV

American comic book writer known for work on Batman-related titles for DC Comics and for creator-owned series such as Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth.

9107. Ralph Hexter

American classicist and academic administrator known for leadership roles in U.S. higher education.

9108. Stephen Menn

9109. Alexander Dugin

Russian political philosopher, analyst and strategist known for promoting Neo-Eurasianism and ultranationalist ideas; founder of the Eurasia Movement and an influential figure in Russian nationalist and geopolitical circles.

9110. Joanna Kavenna

British novelist, essayist and travel writer known for fiction and nonfiction that explore identity, culture and politics.

9111. Hermes Trismegistus

Legendary Hellenistic syncretic figure combining the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth; traditionally credited as the (probably pseudonymous) author of the Hermetica and as the founder of Hermeticism.

9112. Jan Sapp

Historian of biology known for work on symbiosis and the history of microbiology; author of several books and articles on symbiosis, microbial evolution, and the microbiome.

9113. Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic theologian (1623–1662) known for contributions to probability theory, Pascal's Triangle, fluid mechanics (Pascal's law), the mechanical calculator (Pascaline), and the philosophical work Pensées.

9114. J.D. Salinger

American writer best known for the novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and numerous short stories; noted for his reclusive life and influence on 20th-century literature.

9115. Hope Mirrlees

English poet, novelist and translator, best known for the modernist poem "Paris" (1920) and the fantasy novel "Lud-in-the-Mist" (1926).

9116. Willem Elsschot

Belgian (Flemish) writer and poet best known under the pen name Willem Elsschot (real name Alfons de Ridder). Noted for concise, ironic novels and novellas such as Kaas (Cheese), Villa des Roses and Lijmen/Het Been.

9117. Albert Camus

French philosopher, author and journalist associated with absurdism and existential themes; author of The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague; Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).

9118. H.P. Lovecraft

American writer of weird fiction and horror, best known for creating the Cthulhu Mythos and for influential stories such as "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness."

9119. Giulio Cesare Croce

Italian popular writer and storyteller (1550–1609), known for satirical prose and comic tales such as the Bertoldo cycle; active in the Bologna region during the late Renaissance.

9120. James Hogg

Scottish poet, novelist and essayist (1770–1835), known as the 'Ettrick Shepherd'; author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and collections such as The Mountain Bard.

9121. Samuel Butler

English novelist, satirist and critic (1835–1902), best known for Erewhon and the posthumously published The Way of All Flesh; wrote essays on religion, evolution and Victorian society and spent formative years in New Zealand.

9122. Horatius

Roman lyric poet of the Augustan age, commonly known as Horace; author of the Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles and the Ars Poetica.

9123. W.G. Sebald

German writer, poet and academic best known for hybrid novels blending memoir, travelogue and history, including The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz; long-time professor of European literature at the University of East Anglia.

9124. Geoffrey Household

British novelist (1900–1988) best known for the thriller Rogue Male; wrote espionage and adventure novels throughout the mid-20th century.

9125. Maurice Sendak

American illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for Where the Wild Things Are (1963); winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal.

9126. Ben Eastham

9127. Ilya Gridneff

9128. Helen DeWitt

American novelist best known for her debut novel The Last Samurai (2000); noted for experimental fiction, linguistic erudition, and inventive narrative techniques.

9129. Jordan Thomas

9130. John Maynard Keynes

British economist, author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and leading figure in the development of Keynesian economics; influential as an academic, public intellectual, and government advisor in the first half of the 20th century.

9131. Jul Maroh

French comic book author and illustrator, best known for the graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude (published in English as Blue Is the Warmest Colour), which was adapted into the 2013 film Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

9132. John Cheever

American novelist and short-story writer known for vivid portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban life; author of The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, and many acclaimed short stories including "The Swimmer."

9133. Anonymous

Author credited as 'Anonymous'; actual identity and biographical details are unknown. Used for works where the true author is not identified.

9134. Jean Rhys

Dominican-born British novelist (born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams), best known for Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); her work explores exile, displacement and alienation, chiefly active from the 1920s to the 1960s.

9135. Luís de Camões

Portuguese 16th-century poet, author of the epic Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), widely regarded as Portugal's greatest poet; also served as a soldier and sailor.

9136. August Strindberg

Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, a major figure in modern drama and literature best known for works such as Miss Julie, The Father and A Dream Play.

9137. Tayeb Salih

Sudanese novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Season of Migration to the North (1966). His work, written in Arabic, addresses postcolonial identity, cultural encounter, and personal exile and is widely regarded as among the most important in modern Arabic literature.

9138. Thucydides

Ancient Athenian historian and general (c. 460–c. 395 BC), author of the History of the Peloponnesian War; noted for critical, empirical approach to historical writing.

9139. Gottfried Keller

Swiss poet and novelist, a leading German-language realist writer best known for the novel 'Green Henry' (Der grüne Heinrich) and the short-story cycle 'The People of Seldwyla' (Die Leute von Seldwyla).

9140. John Dos Passos

American novelist, poet, and artist best known for the modernist U.S.A. trilogy; noted for experimental narrative techniques and engagement with political and social themes.

9141. Margaret Mead

American cultural anthropologist best known for fieldwork in Oceania and popular books such as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928); influential public intellectual on child-rearing, gender, culture, and sexuality.

9142. Eric Maskin

American economist and 2007 Nobel laureate recognized for foundational contributions to mechanism design and game theory.

9143. Sami Pihlström

Finnish philosopher and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for work on Hegel, German idealism, and contemporary philosophy.

9144. Tim Button

9145. Willem A. Devries

9146. Susan Haack

British philosopher known for work in epistemology, logic, and philosophy of science; developer of 'foundherentism' and author of works including Philosophy of Logics (1978) and Evidence and Inquiry (1993); longtime professor at the University of Miami.

9147. Luis de Góngora y Argote

Spanish Baroque poet (Golden Age) known for complex, ornate style called culteranismo or 'Gongorism'. Author of major lyrical works including the Soledades and the Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea; influential on later Spanish literature.

9148. Alexis de Tocqueville

French historian, political thinker, and aristocrat best known for Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.

9149. Robert Bresson

French film director celebrated for an austere, minimalist style, use of nonprofessional actors, and films exploring spiritual and moral themes (e.g., Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket, Au hasard Balthazar).

9150. Carlo Goldoni

Italian playwright and librettist (1707–1793), a major reformer of Italian theatre who moved it from improvisatory commedia dell'arte toward scripted, realistic comedy; author of plays such as The Servant of Two Masters and The Mistress of the Inn.