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Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962)
journalist, essayist
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
journalist, television presenter, politician
Jill Lepore (born 1966)
historian, journalist, essayist, academic
Amos Oz (1939-2018)
linguist, journalist, translator, essayist, pedagogue, poet
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)
historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist
Hamid Dabashi (born 1951)
historian, professor, sociologist, literary historian, literary critic, journalist, film critic, peace activist
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
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Michael Grant (1914-2004)
historian, classical philologist, archaeologist, numismatist, classical scholar, administrator, historian of classical antiquity, scientist, academic administrator, actor, film director, opinion journalist, translator
