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Henry James (1843-1916)
playwright, poet lawyer, literary critic, editing staff
- Harvard University
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
poet, journalist, essayist
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
politician, playwright, drawer, librettist, essayist, illustrator, poet, art historian, opinion journalist, graphic artist
- University of Paris, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alberto Barrera Tyszka (born 1960)
journalist, poet, opinion journalist
- Central University of Venezuela
Edith Bruck (born 1931)
poet, film director, translator, autobiographer
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art
Clemens Brentano (1778-1842)
poet, collector of fairy tales, playwright
- University of Halle-Wittenberg, University of Bonn