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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
journalist, literary critic, magician, philosopher, mathematician, science communicator
- University of Chicago
Tim Parks (born 1954)
journalist, translator
- University of Cambridge, Harvard University
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
journalist, television presenter, politician
- Yale University, Davenport College
Hamid Dabashi (born 1951)
historian, professor, sociologist, literary historian, literary critic, journalist, film critic, peace activist
- Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
journalist, historian of Modern Age, historian, mathematician, secretary, editor, art historian
- Harvard University, Humboldt University of Berlin
José Saramago (1922-2010)
journalist, playwright, translator, poet, chronicler, essayist, diarist, literary critic, dramaturge, revolutionary
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute