The List

500 lives chosen at the start of this project:
  1. Sarah Buck
  2. Cindy Williams
  3. Marie Schuh
  4. Benjamin Quinlan
  5. Carmen Avis Solsiete
  6. Lily K. McCulloch
  7. Moleta J. Grutz
  8. Noah Grey
  9. J. R. R. Tolkien
  10. Madeleine L'Engle  (1/14/2018)
  11. Moleta G. Leiker
  12. James Matheus Guy
  13. Elias Roberts
  14. Ryan Daily
  15. Thomas Jefferson
  16. Rainer Maria Rilke
  17. Emily Dickinson
  18. Nikos Kazantzakis
  19. Carl Jung
  20. Martin Buber
  21. David Whyte
  22. John O'Donohue
  23. Viktor Frankl
  24. Anne Frank
  25. Walt Whitman
  26. Octavio Paz
  27. Albert Einstein
  28. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  29. Henry David Thoreau
  30. Frank Lloyd Wright
  31. Maria Montessori
  32. Hermann Hesse
  33. Paul Pilkington
  34. Loren Eiseley
  35. Ray Bradbury
  36. Susan Kennedy (SARK)
  37. Starhawk (née Miriam Simos)
  38. Cheryl Strayed (née Nyland)
  39. Gilles Deleuze
  40. Félix Guattari
  41. Auguste Rodin
  42. Paul Cezanne
  43. John Chris Jones (collective curriculum vitae)
  44. Carl Sagan
  45. Leonardo da Vinci
  46. Benoit Mandelbrot
  47. Alan Kay
  48. M. C. Escher
  49. Douglas Hofstadter  (1/25/2018)
  50. Robert Vickrey
  51. T. S. Eliot
  52. E. E. Cummings
  53. Henry Darger
  54. Steve Jobs
  55. Stewart Brand
  56. William Stein
  57. Stephen Wolfram
  58. Donald Knuth
  59. Jeremy Ruston
  60. Alan Turing
  61. Kenneth E. Iverson
  62. Nicholas Negroponte
  63. Ted Warnell
  64. Kimberly Rose
  65. Howard Rheingold
  66. Cyd Ropp
  67. Leigh Grindal
  68. Seymour Papert
  69. William A. Romanowski
  70. Theodor Holm Nelson
  71. Lynn Ann Conway
  72. Daniel Quinn
  73. Neil Postman
  74. Philip K. Dick
  75. John Cage
  76. Merce Cunningham
  77. Nathan Corymb
  78. Steven Pinker
  79. Richard Feynman
  80. Randy Pausch
  81. Robin Williams
  82. Pablo Neruda
  83. Sally Hemings
  84. Harriet Ross Tubman
  85. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  86. Maurice S. Friedman
  87. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  88. L. Frank Baum
  89. Eleanor Cameron
  90. C. S. Lewis
  91. William Sleator
  92. Ellen Raskin
  93. Rosalind Miles
  94. Kahlil Gibran
  95. Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón)
  96. Diego Rivera
  97. Fernando Pessoa
  98. Robert Frost
  99. Henry Miller
  100. Theodore Roethke
  101. Mary Oliver
  102. H.D. (née Hilda Doolittle)
  103. May Sarton
  104. Wallace Stevens
  105. Joyce Sutphen
  106. Mark Twain
  107. Ernest Hemingway
  108. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  109. William Faulkner
  110. Hart Crane
  111. Albert Camus
  112. Sylvia Plath
  113. Ted Hughes
  114. Nicholas Hughes
  115. Meister Eckhart
  116. Rumi
  117. Carl Rogers
  118. Paul Tillich
  119. Paul Fleischman
  120. Albert Schweitzer
  121. Gary Snyder
  122. Kobayashi Issa
  123. D. T. Suzuki
  124. Shunryu Suzuki
  125. Stephen Batchelor
  126. Edward Espe Brown
  127. Thich Nhat Hanh
  128. John Lennon
  129. Elton John
  130. Roma Ryan
  131. Natalie Merchant
  132. Sarah McLachlan
  133. Alanis Morissette
  134. Dido (Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong)
  135. Conor Oberst
  136. Marcus Mumford
  137. Leonard Cohen
  138. Leonard Bernstein
  139. Enya Brennan
  140. Eva Marie Cassidy
  141. Rich Mullins
  142. Bob Dylan
  143. Jack Kerouac
  144. Charles Bukowski
  145. Johann Sebastian Bach
  146. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  147. Joanna Newsom
  148. David Darling  (1/7/2018)
  149. Paul Hewson
  150. Pete Seeger
  151. Jacques Brel
  152. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  153. Holly Herndon
  154. Lou Andreas-Salomé
  155. Franz Xaver Kappus
  156. W. H. Auden
  157. Gregory Orr
  158. Carl Sandburg
  159. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  160. William Stafford
  161. Charles Baudelaire
  162. Paul Verlaine
  163. Arthur Rimbaud
  164. Lisa Robertson
  165. Mira Fong
  166. Dorothy Bryant
  167. Jane Hirshfield
  168. Joanne Diaz
  169. Jeanne Lohmann
  170. Minnie Bruce Pratt
  171. Paul Éluard
  172. André Breton
  173. Cesare Pavese
  174. Hugh MacDiarmid
  175. Duncan Munro Glen
  176. Evan S. Connell
  177. Peter S. Beagle
  178. Wayne Luckmann
  179. Helen Keller
  180. Karen Armstrong
  181. Helen Cohn Schucman
  182. Paulo Coelho
  183. Jorge Luis Borges
  184. Max Ehrmann
  185. Sandra Cisneros
  186. Annie Dillard
  187. Barbara Brown Taylor
  188. A. S. Byatt
  189. Silas C. Krabbe
  190. Amos Niven Wilder
  191. Rubem Alves
  192. Callid Keefe-Perry
  193. Dave Harrity
  194. Irene Lape
  195. John Greenleaf Whittier
  196. Spencer Wells
  197. Arlette Farge
  198. Laurence Overmire
  199. James Joseph Edward M—
  200. Marie Tillman
  201. Mark Anthony Tillman
  202. Allen Ginsberg
  203. Neal Cassady
  204. Robert M. Pirsig
  205. Rabindranath Tagore
  206. Thomas Wolfe
  207. Italo Calvino
  208. William Blake
  209. D. H. Lawrence
  210. Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)
  211. Paul Klee
  212. Wassily Kandinsky
  213. Gustav Klimt
  214. Edvard Munch
  215. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
  216. Salvador Dali
  217. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  218. William Wordsworth
  219. William Morris
  220. Mary Shelley
  221. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  222. John Keats
  223. Robert Louis Stevenson
  224. H. G. Wells
  225. Isaac Asimov
  226. Robert Graves
  227. Ihab Hassan
  228. Conrad Aiken
  229. Chana Bloch
  230. Mark Strand
  231. Plato
  232. Homer
  233. Sigmund Freud
  234. Charles Darwin
  235. Michel Foucault
  236. Paulo Freire
  237. Rudolf Kassner
  238. Blaise Pascal  (1/18/2018)
  239. Michael Czarnecki
  240. Leo Tolstoy
  241. Kurt Gödel
  242. Julius Thomas Fraser
  243. Lewis Carroll
  244. Mark Z. Danielewski
  245. Leo Babauta
  246. Vladimir Nabokov
  247. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  248. James Joyce
  249. William Shakespeare
  250. Thomas Aquinas
  251. Hildegard of Bingen
  252. Francis of Assisi
  253. Gregory of Nazianzus
  254. Augustine of Hippo
  255. Andrew the Apostle
  256. Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger)
  257. Father Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)
  258. Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama of Tibet
  259. Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown)
  260. Ayya Khema (Ilse Kussel)
  261. Jan Chozen Bays
  262. Abraham Heschel
  263. Thomas Merton
  264. Ronald Sam Gilardi
  265. Justin Portal Welby (Browne)
  266. Regina Yarchever Heit
  267. Catherine Black-Ward
  268. Lana Leonard
  269. Krista Tippett
  270. Rachel Grace Pollack
  271. Carol K. Anthony
  272. Paul Foster Case
  273. Rainbow Eagle (née Rolland Williston)
  274. George Fox
  275. Elias Hicks
  276. Thomas R. Kelly
  277. Henry Ward Beecher
  278. Richard Wilhelm
  279. Benjamin Friedlander
  280. Elizabeth Spring (Janet Fenn)
  281. Margaret Atwood
  282. Fred McFeely Rogers
  283. Jim Carrey
  284. Jim Merkel
  285. Dorothy Parker
  286. Maria Popova
  287. Sherwood Anderson
  288. Karl Stevenson
  289. Louis Kelso
  290. Adam Smith
  291. Lewis Mumford
  292. Buckminster Fuller
  293. E. F. Schumacher
  294. Christopher Alexander
  295. Nicholas Carr
  296. Colleen Cordes (The Nature Institute)
  297. Sam Graham-Felsen
  298. Michael Pollan
  299. Hugh Prather — Letter 1, Oct 2016  (12/30/2017)
  300. Terry S. Osborne
  301. Bill Bryson
  302. Joseph Campbell
  303. Harold Bloom
  304. Jacob Bronowski
  305. Paul Otlet
  306. Vannevar Bush
  307. Mortimer Adler
  308. Erin McKean
  309. Samuel Johnson
  310. Marcel Theroux
  311. James Augustus Henry Murray
  312. Douglas Harper
  313. Victor Hugo
  314. Dante Alighieri
  315. Geoffrey Chaucer
  316. Thomas Paine
  317. Hillary Rodham
  318. Howard Zinn
  319. John Rawls
  320. Abraham Lincoln
  321. Woodrow Wilson
  322. Barack Obama
  323. Jean Piaget
  324. Jerome Bruner
  325. William James
  326. John Dewey
  327. Søren Kierkegaard
  328. Immanuel Kant
  329. Georg Hegel
  330. Friedrich Schiller
  331. Friedrich Hölderlin
  332. Bertrand Russell
  333. Emmanuel Levinas
  334. Hannah Arendt
  335. Walter Benjamin
  336. Friedrich Nietzsche
  337. Paul Ricoeur
  338. Martin Heidegger
  339. Marcus Aurelius
  340. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  341. Paul Valéry
  342. Thomas Mann
  343. Alan Watts  (1/11/2018)
  344. Paramahansa Yogananda
  345. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  346. Jean-Luc Nancy
  347. Franz Kafka
  348. Marcel Proust
  349. Samuel Beckett
  350. Gertrude Stein
  351. Pablo Picasso
  352. Josef Beuys
  353. Marcel Duchamp
  354. Alfred Korzybski
  355. Werner Heisenberg
  356. Niels Bohr
  357. Hermann Weyl
  358. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  359. Jens Peter Jacobsen
  360. Henrik Ibsen
  361. Anton Chekhov
  362. Oscar Wilde
  363. John Donne
  364. Jonathan Swift
  365. Arthur Symons
  366. Jane Austen
  367. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  368. Herman Melville
  369. Brontë Family (Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Branwell)
  370. Virginia Woolf
  371. George Eliot
  372. Willa Cather
  373. Edith Wharton
  374. Stevie Smith
  375. Jonathan Weidenbaum
  376. Sam Anderson (New York writer)
  377. Lewis Thomas
  378. Karl Marx
  379. Jacques Derrida
  380. Rachel Carson
  381. Jane Goodall
  382. Daniel Chandler
  383. Noam Chomsky
  384. Benjamin Lee Whorf
  385. Robert K. Merton
  386. Mikhail Bakhtin
  387. George Steiner
  388. Ken Kesey
  389. David Foster Wallace
  390. Kurt Vonnegut
  391. Andrew Solomon
  392. Marina Warner
  393. Brenda Wineapple 
  394. Shelley Jackson
  395. Marvin Minsky
  396. Ward Cunningham
  397. Evan Clark Williams
  398. Chris Dent
  399. Eugene Kim
  400. Douglas Engelbart
  401. John Forbes Nash
  402. W. V. O. Quine
  403. Julian Jaynes
  404. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  405. Stephen Mitchell
  406. Walter Kaufmann
  407. Stuart Kauffman
  408. Victor M. Mansfield
  409. Philip S. Rawson
  410. William S. Merwin
  411. William Carlos Williams
  412. Philip Booth
  413. Clark Moore
  414. Sonu Shamdasani
  415. A. S. Kline
  416. Rachel Corbett
  417. Edward Snow
  418. Erik Bendix
  419. B. H. Fairchild
  420. John Ruskin
  421. Frederick Turner (Hadean Eclogues)
  422. Antonio Gramsci
  423. Robert Creeley
  424. John Ashbery
  425. Keith Ansell Pearson
  426. Sean Wiebe
  427. Pauline Sameshima
  428. Anna Akhmatova
  429. Judith Wright
  430. Nassim N. Taleb
  431. McKenzie Wark
  432. René Girard
  433. Eugene Gendlin
  434. Morris Berman
  435. Roberto Unger
  436. Mark Epstein
  437. Terence McKenna
  438. Margaret Mead
  439. Gregory Bateson
  440. Elizabeth Hill Boone
  441. Franklin E. Morris
  442. Isabel Briggs Myers
  443. Martin Miller (son of Alice Englard Miller)
  444. Dickon Bevington
  445. Thom Rutledge
  446. Dan Harris (born 1971)
  447. Sam Sax
  448. Eric Victorino
  449. Peter McBrien
  450. Stephen King
  451. Lana and Lilly Wachowski
  452. Dorothy Sayers
  453. George MacDonald
  454. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  455. Ursula K. Le Guin
  456. Frank Herbert
  457. William Gibson
  458. Cory Doctorow
  459. Aldous Huxley
  460. George Orwell
  461. William S. Burroughs
  462. Ray Johnson
  463. William S. (Bill) Wilson
  464. Caits Meissner
  465. Jennifer Michael Hecht
  466. Robinson Jeffers
  467. Rabih Alameddine
  468. Henry James
  469. Seamus Heaney
  470. Michel de Montaigne
  471. William Butler Yeats
  472. Robert Browning
  473. Sir Walter Scott
  474. Miguel de Cervantes
  475. Paul Celan
  476. John Fowles
  477. Carson McCullers
  478. Julio Cortázar
  479. Ayn Rand
  480. Sara Baume
  481. Alfred Kazin
  482. Ralph Ellison
  483. Richard Wright
  484. Tennessee Williams
  485. Yrsa Daley-Ward
  486. Fran Lock
  487. Christopher Morley
  488. Truman Capote
  489. Sam Phillips
  490. Leonard Richardson
  491. Susan Kornfeld "The Prowling Bee"
  492. Verbatim Found Poetry
  493. Read A Little Poetry
  494. Ruth McMonagle "And Then She Recovered"
  495. George Amoss Jr. "The Postmodern Quaker"
  496. Kenneth Leson Smith "Abide In Peace"
  497. Cath Styles "Sembl"
  498. Paul Tillman
  499. Maya S. Tillman
  500. Aron E. Tillman

The second set of 500 being gradually revealed:
  1. Steve Andreas — Letter 2, Oct 2016
  2. Chungliang Al Huang — Letter 3, Oct 2016  (1/3/2018)
  3. Hannah Brencher
  4. Stacy Szymaszek

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