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Neil Young (born 1945)
singer, film director, autobiographer, record producer, actor, pianist, film actor, guitarist, director
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
playwright, journalist, autobiographer
- Columbia University, University of Oxford
Bob Dylan (born 1941)
film actor, poet, guitarist, autobiographer, painter, record producer, film director, lyricist, composer, disc jockey, actor, singer, radio personality, designer, musician
- University of Minnesota system, Sidwell Friends School
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
war correspondent, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Lancing College
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
dancer, businessperson, philanthropist, film director, autobiographer, record producer, film actor, actor, entrepreneur, recording artist, singer, voice actor, art collector, model, poet
- Montclair College Preparatory School
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
playwright, poet, opinion journalist, dramaturge, autobiographer, journalist, diarist, politician, publisher