20th-century letter writers

Russian author (1828–1910)

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)

Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)

German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

French Canadian fiction writer

Ukrainian writer and feminist (1863–1942)

Austrian photographer (1923-2002)

Japanese novelist, critic, member of the Japanese Communist Party

Austrian journalist and writer (1858–1935)

Angolan nationalist, heroine, militant, writer, and translator

Czech noblewoman (1885–1950)

German outsider artist (1878-1920)

Dutch writer (1923–1943)