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Henry Miller (1891-1980)
painter, essayist, correspondent
- City College of New York
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
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
poet, painter, playwright
- Harvard University, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
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
John Leguizamo (born 1960)
comedian, voice actor, playwright, painter, stage actor, television actor, film actor, film producer, film director, television presenter, actor
- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
poet, essayist, painter, photographer
- Harvard University, John Burroughs School
Unica ZÃŒrn (1916-1970)
painter, poet, artist
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
poet, painter, haiku poet