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Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
- Yale University, Cornell University
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
translator, poet, literary critic, women's rights activist, journalist
- Harvard University, Columbia University
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
philosopher, pedagogue, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic, opinion journalist, politician, poet, translator, essayist
- Universidad Central, University of Deusto
Stephen Hunter (born 1946)
film critic, journalist, actor
- Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
philosopher, composer, musicologist, sociologist, literary critic, music critic, aphorist, pianist, academic, aesthetician
- University of Oxford, Goethe University Frankfurt
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg
John Dryden (1631-1700)
playwright, translator, poet, literary critic
- Westminster School, University of Cambridge
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
poet, diplomat, essayist, literary critic, journalist, pedagogue, publisher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College