CLT and CLI Author Bank

CLI’s Recommended Sources

Hundreds of different men and women have made valuable contributions to the richness of modern philosophy and thought. The CLT in particular draws on sources that have helped shape the course of Western intellectual thought, including authors of diverse backgrounds and philosophies. Beginning with the January 2017 CLT, two-thirds of CLT reading and writing passages will be drawn from the list of authors below. Please continue to review this document, as this list will be subject to periodic revision.

Alighieri, Dante
Adams, John
Adler, Mortimer
Angelou, Maya
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Austen, Jane
Averroes
Avicenna
Bacon, Francis
Baldwin, James
Beauvoir, Simone de
Belloc, Hilaire
Bentham, Jeremy
Boethius
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Boyle, Robert
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Buber, Martin
Calvin, John
Cavendish, Margaret
Caesar, Julius
Chesterton, G.K.
Chekhov, Anton
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Confucius
Cooper, Anna Julia
Darwin, Charles
Dawson, Christopher
Descartes, René
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Edwards, Jonathan
Einstein, Albert
Epicurus
Eliot, George
Eliot, T.S.
Fabre, J. Henri
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Franklin, Benjamin
Galilei, Galileo
Hamilton, Alexander
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Hobbes, Thomas
Homer
Hume, David
Hughes, Langston
James, Henry
James, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Joyce, James
Kant, Immanuel
Kepler, Johannes
Kierkegaard, Søren
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Lewis, C.S.
Locke, John
Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Madison, James
Maimonides
Marx, Karl
Melville, Herman
Mendel, Gregor
Merton, Thomas
Milton, John
Montaigne, Michel de
Montesquieu, Charles
Newman, John Henry
Newton, Isaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Novak, Michael
O’Connor, Flannery
Orwell, George
Pascal, Blaise
Planck, Max
Plato
Pope St. John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)
Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
Pope Leo XIII
Percy, Walker
Plutarch
Ptolemy
Pushkin, Alexander
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sayers, Dorothy
Schaeffer, Francis
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Smith, Adam
Sophocles
St. Augustine of Hippo
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
St. Teresa of Ávila
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas More
Thucydides
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Twain, Mark
Undset, Sigrid
Virgil
Voltaire, François
von Hildebrand, Dietrich
Walker, Alice
Washington, Booker T.
Waugh, Evelyn
Weber, Max
Weil, Simone
Wollstonecraft, Mary