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Anna Lappé is an American author and food activist focused on sustainable agriculture and food justice. Together with her mother Frances Moore Lappé she has written several books on food issues.

American poet. He wrote both formal verse rooted in the natural world and free verse with a surrealist bent; his works include In a Dark Time and The Visitant.

Seneca

4 BC – 65 · Italy

Roman Stoic philosopher and dramatist who tutored the emperor Nero. In his Letters to Lucilius he argued for governing life through restraint and reason.

American industrialist and philanthropist. He built immense wealth in the steel industry and donated most of his fortune to libraries, education, and peace institutions, pioneering modern philanthropy.

36th Prime Minister of New Zealand. Elected to parliament at a young age, she became New Zealand's first woman prime minister in 1997.

American statesman who served as senator from Kentucky and attorney general. He proposed the Crittenden Compromise in a failed attempt to prevent the Civil War.

The 39th President of the United States. After leaving office he devoted himself to global peace and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist dedicated to social justice and women's rights. She wrote several novels and works of criticism, including her best-known work 'South Riding,' before dying at the young age of 37.

Late Roman poet and rhetorician born in Bordeaux. He tutored the emperor Gratian and is best known for his poem on the Moselle.

American journalist and author. He wrote a long-running political column for The New York Times and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.

Irish poet and 4th Earl of Roscommon. He contributed to literary criticism with his poem An Essay on Translated Verse.

French popular novelist known for humorous depictions of Parisian life.