Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award
Creator
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi
Douglas R. Hofstadter
American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics
Victor Hugo
French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
William James
American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
James Hogg
Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English
Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
Julian Jaynes
American researcher in psychology at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years and best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker