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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
philosopher, translator, jurist, essayist, autobiographer, politician, poet lawyer, French moralist
![Journal du voyage in Italie par la Suisse [et] l'Allemagne en 1580 [et] 1581](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6841000-M.jpg)
![Extraits [des essais] Avec Table bibliographique, étude, notes explicatives et glossaire par Eugène Réaume](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5976372-M.jpg)
![Journal du voyage in Italie par la Suisse [et] l'Allemagne en 1580 [et] 1581](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6840948-M.jpg)
Robert M. Pirsig (1928-2017)
philosopher, autobiographer
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
anarchist, journalist, political philosopher, women's rights activist, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, autobiographer, nurse, philosopher, politician, pacifist
![My disillusionment in Russia [1923 version; first 11 chapters of 33]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11271565-M.jpg)
Philippe Sollers (1936-2023)
philosopher, publisher, essayist, director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, literary theorist
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274)
philosopher, scientist, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, polymath, architect, physician, da'i, theologian, marji', poet, translator, politician
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)
philosopher, autobiographer, yogi
André Frossard (1915-1995)
journalist, philosopher
Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725)
philosopher, politician, economist, poet, historian
