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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
journalist, autobiographer, teacher, humorist, aphorist, opinion journalist
- Cascadilla School
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
autobiographer, poet, fighter pilot
- Repton School, The Cathedral School
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
poet, philosopher, biographer, professor
- Badminton School, University of Oxford
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
Anatole France (1844-1924)
poet, librarian, literary critic, biographer, critic
- Collège Stanislas de Paris
John Gardner (1933-1982)
translator, essayist, literary critic, journalist, biographer
- University of Detroit Mercy, Washington University in St. Louis