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academics who wrote autobiography
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Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019)
- Stanford University, San Francisco State University
Ben Carson (born 1951)
psychologist, neurosurgeon, politician, surgeon
- University of Michigan, Yale University
Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
motivational speaker, computer scientist, pedagogue
- Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University
Reinhard Bendix (1916-1991)
sociologist
- University of Chicago
Marie Simon (1922-1998)
classical scholar, philosophy historian, classical philologist, resistance fighter
- Humboldt University of Berlin
Azar Nafisi (born 1954)
professor, literary critic, faculty member, public figure, journalist
- University of Oklahoma
Nathalie Champoux
professor of practice
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)
journalist, diplomat, literary critic, autobiographer, literary editor, television presenter