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Émile Zola (1840-1902)
political reporter, art critic, essayist, playwright, literary critic, theatre critic, journalist, poet, photographer, librettist
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, essayist, literary critic, art collector
- The Academy of Management Annals, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
philosopher, essayist, encyclopédistes, art critic, playwright, literary critic, correspondent, translator, historian, political scientist, lexicographer, art theorist, literary theorist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
literary critic, journalist, art critic, essayist, dramaturge, publisher
- University of Paris, Lycée Charlemagne
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
poet, playwright, literary critic, translator, historian, librettist, book collector, opinion journalist, dramaturge, essayist, bretteur
- Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
philosopher, professor, sociologist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar
- University of Cambridge, King Henry VIII School Abergavenny
Stanley Fish (born 1938)
philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist
- Yale University, University of Pennsylvania
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford