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academics who wrote autobiography
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James Baldwin (1924-1987)
poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, essayist, social critic
- New School, Bowling Green State University
Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
blogger, actor, composer, poet lawyer, lyricist, researcher
- St. Ignatius College
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940)
linguist, translator, essayist, librettist, poet, critic
- University of Cape Town, University of Texas at Austin
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 1940)
translator, essayist, journalist
- University of Bristol, Aix-Marseille University
Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015)
literary critic, professor, poet
- University of Milan
Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995)
translator, photographer, geographer
- University of Amsterdam, Barlaeus Gymnasium
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford
Wole Soyinka (born 1934)
playwright, poet, translator, philosopher, essayist, professor
- University of Leeds, University of Ibadan