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

The second set of 500 will be gradually revealed…

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