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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
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
actor, poet, journalist, columnist, autobiographer, diarist
- Los Angeles City College
André Gide (1869-1951)
journalist, film producer, essayist, playwright, diarist, translator, autobiographer
- Lycée Henri-IV, École alsacienne
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
poet, diarist, biographer, journalist, teacher
- Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
war correspondent, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Lancing College
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
Stendhal (1783-1842)
autobiographer, diarist, biographer, diplomat, art historian
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
playwright, poet, opinion journalist, dramaturge, autobiographer, journalist, diarist, politician, publisher