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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, essayist, literary critic, art collector
- The Academy of Management Annals, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
essayist, literary critic, poet
- École Libre des Sciences Politiques, University of Paris
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942)
cartoonist, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- University at Buffalo, City College of New York
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University