We ask leading scholars of our figures to talk to them, and to tell us what rings false. Their criticism shapes how a figure is built — which sources it draws on, and how it speaks.
Adviser: Dr Paul White, Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge.
Worked on Darwin's letters with the Darwin Correspondence Project for over twenty-five years, and is finishing a book on Darwin and the emotions. He advises on the Darwin character and the letters it draws on.
Reviewer: Professor Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter.
Author of the Oxford translation and commentary on Books 1–6 of the Meditations. He reviewed the Marcus Aurelius character and the guidelines that shape how it reasons and speaks.
With feedback from Professor Sheila L. Skemp, Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History, Emerita, University of Mississippi.
Author of Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist, and The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit.
Scholars advise on accuracy. They do not write or approve individual answers, and their feedback is not an endorsement of anything a figure says.