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Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
journalist, humorist, playwright, autobiographer, actor, essayist
![Three men in a boat, also, Diary of a pilgrimage ; [and], Three men on the bummel](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7151178-M.jpg)
Tristan Taormino (born 1971)
actor, film director, sex educator, pornographic actor, film actor, women's rights activist, film producer, podcaster
Cornel West (born 1953)
theologian, philosopher, actor, critic, executive producer, podcaster, political activist
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982)
playwright, film director, actor, film editor, television director, cinematographer, film producer, film actor, theatrical director, stage actor, television actor, director, producer
David Thomson (born 1941)
journalist, biographer, film critic, performing artist, film scholar, actor, opinion journalist, critic
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018)
actor, poet, playwright, essayist, choreographer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
actor, women's rights activist, abolitionist
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![[Letters]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5592223-M.jpg)
