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John Updike (1932-2009)
poet, essayist, playwright, art critic, literary critic, journalist
- Harvard University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Adam Roberts (born 1965)
literary critic
- University of Cambridge, University of Aberdeen
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
philosopher, philologist, linguist, epistemologist, sociologist, literary theorist, literary critic, teacher
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, University of Paris
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
philosopher, translator, essayist, literary critic, sociologist, art critic, literary historian
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Bern
Richard Sennett (born 1943)
sociologist, historian, musician, literary critic, academic
- Harvard University, University of Chicago
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
composer, librettist, conductor, choreographer, music educator, pianist, autobiographer, music critic, diarist, translator
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Imperial School of Jurisprudence
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
poet, literary critic, anthologist
- Clifton College, University of Oxford