| | | | Choose Your Heroes |
| | Alice | Hoffman | Narrator. |
| | Anne | Frank | A young Jewish writer. Alice's first hero. |
| | Mother | | Alice's mother. A social worker. |
| | Father | | Alice's father. Left mother when Alice was only 8 years old. |
| | Lillie | | Alice's Russian grandmother whom they lived with at the time. |
| | Jo-Ann | | Alice's sister-in-law. Was diagnosed with cancer. |
| | | | Choose to Enjoy Yourself |
| | Julia | Child | Taught a cooking class attended by Alice's son. |
| | Maclin | Bocock Guerard | A writer from Virginia. |
| | Professor | Guerard | Alice and Maclin's former professor at Harvard. Maclin's husband. |
| | | | Choose Your Friends |
| | The | Brontes | Sibling authors. |
| | Edgar Allan | Poe | Poet. |
| | Emily | Dickinson | Author. |
| | | | Choose How You Spend Your Time |
| | Clark | Gable | An actor. |
| | Billy | Murray | An actor. |
| | Laurence | Olivier | An actor. |
| | Johnny | Depp | An actor. |
| | | | Choose to Accept Sorrow |
| | Victor | Frankl | The author of "Man's Search for Meaning." A psychiatrist. |
| | | | Choose to Dream |
| | George | Sand | Writer. Had an affair with Frederic Chopin. |
| | Frederic | Chopin | Had an affair with George Sand. |
| | | | Choose Something New |
| | Lisa | Hoffman | Alice's cousin. Once knitted a wedding dress that made it to Vouge Knitting. |
| | | | Choose to Give In to Yourself |
| | Sheryl | Crow | Artist. |
| | Lady | Gaga | Artist. |
| | Bruce | Springsteen | Artist. |
| | Van | Morrison | Artist. |
| | The | Beatles | Artist. |
| | Bob | Dylan | Artist. |
| | Judy | Collins | Artist. |
| | Mick | Jagger | Artist. |
| | Paul | McCartney | Artist. |
| | | | Choose to Make Things Beautiful |
| | Pablo | Picasso | Painter and sculptor. |
| | Jane | Austen | Writer. |
| | | | Choose to Love |
| | Houdini | | Alice's German shepherd. Her first dog. |
