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biographers who wrote autobiography
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Tim Page (born 1954)
music critic, literary critic, biographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Mannes College The New School for Music
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)
biographer, poet, teacher, memoirist, linguist, lecturer
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
politician, autobiographer, political activist, human rights activist, Muslim minister
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
politician, autobiographer, lawyer, political activist, political prisoner
- University of the Witwatersrand, University of Fort Hare
John Howard (born 1939)
politician, autobiographer, lawyer, solicitor, historian
- University of Sydney
Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
film actor, film director, diplomat, autobiographer, film producer, television actor, stage actor, actor, theatrical director, television producer, director
Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967-2020)
lawyer, autobiographer, journalist
- Harvard University, Yale Law School
Laurie Lee (1914-1997)
poet, autobiographer, journalist
- Marling School