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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
essayist
- Rutgers University, University of Chicago
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
journalist, film producer, playwright
- University of Oxford, Accrington and Rossendale College
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
theologian
- University of Oxford, Campbell College
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
John Paul II (1920-2005)
Latin Catholic priest, poet, politician, human rights activist, professor, philosopher, transitional deacon, latin catholic deacon, archbishop, Catholic bishop
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Theology faculty of the Jagiellonian University
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University