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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Tony Benn (1925-2014)
politician, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Westminster School
Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982)
theatrical director, autobiographer, stage actor, film actor, playwright
- University of Canterbury
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Augustine of Hippo (0354-0430)
philosopher, theologian, autobiographer, music theorist, preacher, historian, poet, Catholic priest, titular bishop, Catholic bishop
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
poet, historian, biographer, politician, translator
- University of Oxford, Westminster School
Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996)
playwright, biographer
- Keio University
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute