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Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
playwright, journalist, autobiographer
- Columbia University, University of Oxford
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
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
playwright, physician, satirist, librettist, journalist, theatrical director, actor, surgeon, biographer
- Bogomolets National Medical University
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
poet, diarist, biographer, journalist, teacher
- Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
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
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
war correspondent, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Lancing College
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
playwright, poet, opinion journalist, dramaturge, autobiographer, journalist, diarist, politician, publisher