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Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
linguist, poet, journalist, translator, playwright, literary critic, typographer
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
playwright, literary critic, army scout, physician
![Collected short stories [of] W. Somerset Maugham](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/4961800-M.jpg)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
Klaus Mann (1906-1949)
translator, literary critic, journalist, poet, autobiographer
Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015)
literary critic, professor, poet
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
John Green (born 1977)
businessperson, film producer, YouTuber, literary critic, podcaster, critic, journalist, editor, video blogger, television producer, history teacher
