Garret Keizer
American author, writer and essayist
Creator
Samuel Johnson
English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, concise, and pithy opinionsparticularly for opinions on civil liberties and American constitutional democracyand deference to the decisions of elected legislatures
John Irving
American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter
Homer
Ancient Greek author and epic poet
Washington Irving
American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century
Gerard Manley Hopkins
English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets
Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist
Horace
Leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus . The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: “He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words.”Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses and caustic iambic poetry . The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: “as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings”.His career coincided with Rome’s momentous change from a republic to an empire
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer