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Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
autobiographer, playwright
- University of Cambridge, King's College London
Alan Paton (1903-1988)
autobiographer, politician
- University of Natal
John Muir (1838-1914)
botanist, geologist, explorer, inventor, essayist, autobiographer, preservationist, mountaineer, glaciologist, ecologist, philosopher, naturalist, conservationist
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin System
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
anarchist, journalist, political philosopher, women's rights activist, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, autobiographer, nurse, philosopher, politician, pacifist
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli (1898-1967)
politician, autobiographer, teacher
- University of Glasgow, Adams College
Bob Dylan (born 1941)
film actor, poet, guitarist, autobiographer, painter, record producer, film director, lyricist, composer, disc jockey, actor, singer, radio personality, designer, musician
- University of Minnesota system, Sidwell Friends School
James Joll (1918-1994)
historian, biographer
- Winchester College, University of Oxford
George Călinescu (1899-1965)
historian, journalist, literary historian, literary critic, biographer, playwright, high school teacher, librarian
- Faculty of Letters (Bucharest University), Gheorghe Lazăr National College