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academics who wrote autobiography
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Haruki Murakami (born 1949)
linguist, translator, essayist, athletics competitor
- Waseda University
Alan Bullock (1914-2004)
politician, historian of Modern Age, historian, biographer
- University of Oxford, Bradford Grammar School
Volker Weidermann (born 1969)
journalist, literary critic, editor, television presenter
Percy Mansell Jones (1889-1968)
romanist, literary scholar
- Aberystwyth University, University of Oxford
Sarah Bakewell (born 1962)
biographer, curator, bookseller
Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954)
judge, lawyer, politician, prosecutor
- Princeton University, Yale Law School
Halide Edib Adıvar (1884-1964)
politician, military personnel, journalist
- Üsküdar American Academy
Mary Karr (born 1955)
poet, historian, essayist
- Goddard College, Macalester College