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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
literary critic, naval officer
- United States Naval Academy
Henry James (1843-1916)
playwright, poet lawyer, literary critic, editing staff
- Harvard University
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
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
journalist, social critic, playwright, editor, botanist
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
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
José Saramago (1922-2010)
journalist, playwright, translator, poet, chronicler, essayist, diarist, literary critic, dramaturge, revolutionary