| | | Part 1 |
| Stevie | Smith | An English Poet and Novelist. |
| Samuel | Beckett | An Irish Novelist. |
| Ted | Bundy | A Handsome Serial Killer. |
| The | Narrator | The Unnamed Narrator of the Story / A Teacher. |
| Wife | Three | The 3rd Wife of the Narrator's Bestfriend. |
| Georges | Simenon | Man who wrote novels under his name. A Belgian Writer. |
| Josephine | Baker | A French Entertainer. |
| Wife | One | The 1st Wife of Narrator's Bestfriend. |
| Wife | Two | The 2nd Wife of Narrator's Bestfriend. |
| Gustave | Flaubert | A French Novelist. |
| Virginia | Woolf | A Writer. |
| Laurence | Olivier | An Actor that could not make tears on demand. |
| Edith | Piaf | A French Vocalist. |
| Apollo | | Great Dane of the Narrator's Bestfriend. |
| You | | Narrator's Bestfriend and Mentor who died. |
| Georges | Steiner | A Famous Writer. |
| David | Lurie | Narrator and Narrator's Bestfriend's Favorite Writer. |
| | | Part 2 |
| Hector | | Narrator's Mexican Neighbor. |
| Buffon | | A French Naturalist. |
| T.S | Eliot | An Essayist. |
| Samuel | Butler | An Author. |
| | | Part 3 |
| Henry de | Montherlant | A French Essayist. |
| Joan | Didion | An American Journalist. |
| Janet | Malcolm | An American Writer. |
| Rebecca | West | A British Author. |
| W.G | Sebald | A German Writer. |
| Toni | Morrison | An American Novelist. |
| Cristha | Wolf | A German Literry Critic. |
| Henry | James | An American-British Author. |
| Philip | Roth | An American Novelist. |
| Sainte-Beuve | | A French Critic. |
| Larette | | A Writer with Mutism. |
| Arletty | | A French Artist in 1945. |
| | | Part 4 |
| J.R | Ackerley | British Author and Literary Editor of BBC's The Listener. |
| Queenie | | J.R. Ackerley's Dog. |
| Miss | Canvey | Tulip's Veterinarian. |
| Romulus | | The Founder of Rome. |
| Remus | | Romulus's Twin. |
| Beau | | The Dog of Narrator's Ex-Boyfriend. |
| | | Part 5 |
| Louis | Zamperini | An U.S. Army Airman. |
| William | Congreve | The Playwright. |
| | | Part 6 |
| Carter | | Narrator's Student. |
| Jane | | Narrator's Student. |
| Viv | | Narrator's Student. |
| Kurt | Vonnegut | An American Writer. |
| O.P | | Narrator's Co-Teacher. |
| | | Part 7 |
| Abraham | Lincoln | The 16th U.S President. |
| Jean | Marais | An Actor in Beauty and the Beast. |
| | | Part 8 |
| Rainer Maria | Rilke | A Bohemian-Austrian Poet. |
| Flannery | O'Connor | An American Novelist. |
| Hazel E. | Hester | A Woman who shoots herself to death. aka: Betty. |
| James | Patterson | The Best Selling Author in the World. |
| Judy | Garland | An American Singer. |
| | | Part 9 |
| George | Bailey | A Fictional Character. |
| Joy | Williams | An American Singer. |
| Ludwig | Wittgenstein | A Philosopher and Logician. |
| Freeman | Dyson | A Physicist who attended Wittgenstein's lectures. |
| Gretl | Wittgenstein | Ludwig Wittgenstein's sister. |
| Tony | Curtis | A Film Actor. |
| Heinrich | Von Kleist | A German Writer. |
| Henriette | Vogel | Heinrich Von Kleist's Dream Lover. |
| | | Part 10 |
| Gavin | Ewart | A Poet. |
| Bella | | An Italian Mastiff. |
| Karl | Kraus | A Writer. |
| Milan | Kundera | A Writer of a Dog Story. |
| Tomas | | The Protagonist in Milan Kundera's Story. |
| Tereza | | Tomas's Wife. |
| Karenin | | Tomas and Tereza's Dog. |
| Agent | Starling | A Fictional Character from Silence of the Lambs. |
| Laurie | Anderson | A Performer. |
| Yo-Yo | Ma | A Performer. |
| Michael | Herr | The Dead Author. |
| | | Part 11 |
| Svetlana | Alexievich | A Journalist who won the Nobel Prize. |
| Martin | Amis | A British Novelist |
| Edna | O'Brien | An Irish Novelist. |
| Elizabeth | Bishop | An American Poet. |
| Doris | Lessing | A British Novelist. |
| Christopher | Isherwood | A Novelist. |
| | | Part 12 |
| Serge | Koussevitzky | Conductor who complained about the birds singing out of tune. |