James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) - an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic. 

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) - an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Peter Orlovsky

Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) - American poet. 

with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in Tanger, 1957

in Benares/India, 1962

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) - American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allan Ginsberg a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born 5 June 1947) - an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. 

Einstein meets Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein met in Berlin on July 14th, 1930.

Colette

Colette - the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). Here with her 80th birthday burning cake.

Gregory Corso

Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) - an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers. Here in his attic room at the Beat Hotel, Paris (1957)

With William Burroughs and Paul Bowles in Tanger, Morocco, 1961

Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón (1919–1952) - the second wife of President Juan Perón. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.

T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) - a poet, playwright and literary critic. Here with his sister-in-law Theresa Garrett Eliot in New Hampshire in 1936.

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) - a German-American actress and singer. Here at Gare Saint Lazare on May 20th 1933 with her husband Rudolf Sieber and her French manager Marcel Boursier.

Hollywood, 1930, calling her daughter in Berlin

with Gary Cooper in Morocco

in The Scarlett Empress

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) - an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Here with her life partner Alice B. Toklas who she met on September 8, 1907, on Toklas' first day in Paris, at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment.