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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Jack London (1876-1916)
journalist, war correspondent, essayist, autobiographer, poet, diarist, seaman
- University of California, Berkeley
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
autobiographer, poet, fighter pilot
- Repton School, The Cathedral School
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)
poet, biographer, anarchist, LGBTQ rights activist, publisher
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
Debby Applegate (born 1968)
historian, biographer
- Yale University, Amherst College
Sally H. Jacobs (born 1957)
biographer