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Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
playwright, philosopher, literary critic, essayist, journalist
- Saint Petersburg State University
Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
poet, pedagogue, literary critic, essayist, inventor
- Victoria University, Radcliffe College
Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
journalist, essayist, musicologist, literary critic, diplomat, publisher
Pierre Bayard (born 1954)
psychoanalyst, literary critic
- École Normale Supérieure
Gert Mattenklott (1942-2009)
literary critic, literary scholar, literary historian, man of letters
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
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
poet, diplomat, essayist, literary critic, journalist, pedagogue, publisher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College
Dmitry Bykov (born 1967)
journalist, poet, literary critic, biographer, film critic, public figure, pedagogue, teacher, columnist, mind gamer, opinion journalist
- MSU Faculty of Journalism