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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
journalist, conductor, autobiographer, music critic, librettist, virtuoso, librarian, composer
- Conservatoire de Paris
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
mathematician, social critic, essayist, logician, epistemologist, philosopher of language, political activist, metaphysician, analytic philosopher, autobiographer, philosopher of science, politician, peace activist, journalist, philosopher
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
poet, autobiographer, playwright
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
translator, Esperantist, autobiographer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
chemist, poet, politician, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Turin, Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio
Edmund White (born 1940)
journalist, literary critic, biographer, memoirist, essayist, playwright
- University of Michigan, Cranbrook Schools
Hervé Guibert (1955-1991)
journalist, photographer, autobiographer, diarist, film director, art critic
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
journalist, essayist, autobiographer, editor