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poets who wrote autobiography
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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
journalist, film producer, actor, poet, stage actor, editor, film actor, suffragist, playwright
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
translator, playwright, essayist, poet, editor, philologist
- University of Oxford, Godolphin School
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
fabulist, aphorist, diarist, translator, lawyer, poet lawyer, claims adjuster
- German University in Prague, Charles University
Julia Alvarez (born 1950)
poet
- Syracuse University, Middlebury College
Colm Tóibín (born 1955)
poet, journalist, playwright, literary critic, teacher, essayist
- University College Dublin, St Peter's College, Wexford
Hildegard of Bingen (1097-1179)
naturalist, composer, philosopher, illuminator, physician, nun, poet, theologian, abbess, artist, playwright, botanist, mystic, sexologist, polymath
- Disibodenberg
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
poet, journalist, typesetter, playwright
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
poet, journalist, geologist, philosopher