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Vincent Price (1911-1993)
art collector, art historian, voice actor, autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor
- Courtauld Institute of Art, Yale University
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)
librarian, historian, sociologist, lawyer, biographer, philosopher, Librarian of Congress
- Harvard College, University of Oxford
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, biographer
- Heriot-Watt University
Jeffrey Masson (born 1941)
autobiographer
- Harvard University
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
poet, polo player, autobiographer, LGBTQ rights activist, playwright, feminist
- New York University, University of Florida
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
journalist, philosopher, women's rights activist, autobiographer, social reformer, social critic, suffragette, peace activist, human rights activist, political theorist, sociologist
- Rockford University
Charles Gildon (1665-1724)
biographer
Erika Mann (1905-1969)
actor, journalist, autobiographer, essayist, film actor, stage actor, opinion journalist, war correspondent, resistance fighter, cabaret performer