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