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academics who wrote autobiography
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Orhan Pamuk (born 1952)
essayist, journalist, academic
- Istanbul University Faculty of Communications, Istanbul Technical University
Dan Millman (born 1946)
motivational speaker, trampoline gymnast, competitive diver, athlete, coach, adviser, orator
- University of California, Berkeley
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945)
autobiographer, actor, playwright
- Coombe Girls' School
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982)
philosopher, librarian, historian, pedagogue, bibliographer, bibliophile, poet, theologian, Judaic scholar
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Humboldt University of Berlin
Gay Talese (born 1932)
journalist
- University of Alabama
Wolfgang Leonhard (1921-2014)
historian
- Landschulheim Herrlingen, Karl Liebknecht School
José María Arguedas (1911-1969)
anthropologist, poet, translator, ethnologist, indigenist, essayist, journalist, politician
- National University of San Marcos
Leif G. W. Persson (born 1945)
criminologist, television presenter
- Stockholm University, Norra Real