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poets who wrote autobiography
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
translator, librarian, literary critic, poet, opinion journalist, essayist
- Collège Calvin
Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
poet, pedagogue, literary critic, essayist, inventor
- Victoria University, Radcliffe College
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
carpenter, publisher, essayist, printer, nurse, school teacher, journalist, poet
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Yale University
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
poet
- King's College London, Architectural Association School of Architecture
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art