Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the most popular thinkers of his time. This popular American essayist, philosopher, and poet also led the transcendentalism movement in America in the mid-19th century.

Writers, more often than not, are more than one thing all at once. May Sarton, one of America’s most prolific writers, dedicated her life to poetry, journalism, and fiction.

Everyone knows James Bond, but not everybody knows the man who created him: Ian Fleming.