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Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
journalist, literary critic, magician, philosopher, mathematician, science communicator
- University of Chicago
Hamid Dabashi (born 1951)
historian, professor, sociologist, literary historian, literary critic, journalist, film critic, peace activist
- Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942)
cartoonist, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- University at Buffalo, City College of New York
José Saramago (1922-2010)
journalist, playwright, translator, poet, chronicler, essayist, diarist, literary critic, dramaturge, revolutionary
Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 1958)
linguist, translator, journalist, literary critic
- International Writing Program
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)
art historian, poet, philosopher, anarchist, literary critic, critic
- University of Leeds
Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
poet, essayist, journalist, literary critic, translator
- University of Oxford, Gresham's School
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute