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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
nurse, poet, teacher, domestic worker, suffragist
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
playwright, poet, film director, film editor, military personnel, essayist, political activist
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
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
poet, diarist, biographer, journalist, teacher
- Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
poet, essayist, painter, photographer
- Harvard University, John Burroughs School
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
playwright, poet, opinion journalist, dramaturge, autobiographer, journalist, diarist, politician, publisher