H. G. Wells
English writer
20th-century historians
A. J. A. Symons
English writer and bibliographer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner
Wallace Stegner
American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called “The Dean of Western Writers”. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
Alan Paton
South African author and anti-apartheid activist
Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography