The “Honorees” Who Have Their Say In The Book

Benjamin Franklin • Rabbi Sherwin Wine • W.C. Fields • Thomas Paine • Woody Allen • George Carlin • Rick Reynolds • James Joyce • Natalie Angier • W.E.B. Du Bois • Victor-Marie Hugo • Luther Burbank • Clarence Darrow • Sir Richard Burton • Richard Burton • Richard Dawkins • Michel Eyguem de Montaigne • Penn & Teller • Joseph Heller • Dr. Sigmund Freud • Billy Joel • Katherine Hepburn • Lord Bertrand Russell • Christopher Marlowe • Holly Near • Ambrose Bierce • George Orwell • Pearl Buck • President John Adams • President James Madison • President Thomas Jefferson • President James Buchanan • President Abraham Lincoln • President William Howard Taft • Ernest Hemingway • George Bernard Shaw • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Robert Green Ingersoll • Napoleon Bonaparte • Eugene Wesley “Gene” Roddenberry • Annie Besant • Charles Robert Darwin • Henry Louis (“H.L.”) • Mencken • Edgar Allan Poe • George Eliot • George Santayana • Charles Schultz • Seneca the Younger • Carl Edward Sagan • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Susan B. Anthony • Frank Lloyd Wright • Voltaire • Andrew Carnegie • Mark Twain • Baron d’Holbach • Ludwig Van Beethoven • Hector Berlioz • Georges Bizet • Johannes Brahms • Claude Debussy • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Thomas Henry Huxley • Noel Coward • Steve Allen • Ferdinand Magellan • Gypsy Rose Lee • Thomas Hardy • Bill Gates • Sam Harris • Robert Frost • Lily Tomlin • Butterfly McQueen • Doris Lessing • Isaac Asimov • John Lennon • Tom Lehrer • Emile Zola • Margaret Sanger • Gertrude Stein