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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Redmond O'Hanlon (born 1947)
explorer, opinion journalist, literary scholar, man of letters
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
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Philippe Sollers (1936-2023)
philosopher, publisher, essayist, director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, literary theorist
Percy Mansell Jones (1889-1968)
romanist, literary scholar
Yigal Schwartz (born 1954)
literary editor, literary theorist
Lauri Sommer (born 1973)
translator, literary scholar, musician, poet