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poets who wrote autobiography
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Francesca Lia Block (born 1962)
editor, poet
- University of California, Berkeley
Amos Oz (1939-2018)
linguist, journalist, translator, essayist, pedagogue, poet
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gymnasia Rehavia
Peter Robinson (1950-2022)
poet
- University of Windsor, York University
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)
art historian, poet, philosopher, anarchist, literary critic, critic
- University of Leeds
Lu Xun (1881-1936)
essayist, poet, literary critic, Esperantist, translator, critic
- Tohoku University, Kobun Institute
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
poet, polo player, autobiographer, LGBTQ rights activist, playwright, feminist
- New York University, University of Florida
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
- University of Oxford, University of St Andrews