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Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
film director, theatrical director, playwright, actor, film producer, autobiographer, filmmaker, director
- Stockholm University, Palmgrenska samskolan
Robert M. Pirsig (1928-2017)
philosopher, autobiographer
- University of Chicago, University of Minnesota
Howard Marks (1945-2016)
actor, autobiographer, drug trafficker, artist
- University of Oxford, University of London
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
anarchist, journalist, political philosopher, women's rights activist, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, autobiographer, nurse, philosopher, politician, pacifist
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Stephen Davis (born 1946)
journalist, biographer, music journalist
- Boston University
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999)
historian, autobiographer, literary critic, biographer
- University of Calcutta, Surendranath College
Constant von Wurzbach (1818-1893)
lexicographer, biographer, poet, military personnel, autobiographer, translator, bibliographer, opinion journalist, official, librarian
- University of Graz, Lviv University