The List

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

The second set of 500 will be gradually revealed…

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