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academics who wrote autobiography
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William Manchester (1922-2004)
historian, professor, biographer
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Missouri
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997)
psychotherapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, professor, neurologist, existential therapist, surgeon, aircraft pilot
- University of Vienna
Atul Gawande (born 1965)
journalist, professor, surgeon, researcher
- University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School
David Shields (born 1956)
academic, film director, essayist
- Brown University, University of Iowa
Cornel West (born 1953)
theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist
- Harvard University, Princeton University
William Woodruff (1916-2008)
historian, memoirist, economic historian, academic, soldier
- University of Nottingham, Harvard University
John Tyndall (1820-1893)
physicist, glaciologist, mountaineer, inventor, philosopher
- University of Marburg
Wieland Schmied (1929-2014)
art historian, literary editor, poet lawyer, jurist, literary scholar