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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
political philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, essayist, political activist, diarist, philosopher, literary critic, feminist
- University of Paris, Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
diarist
- Columbia University, Yeshiva University
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)
playwright, poet, literary critic, diarist, illustrator, graphic artist
- University of Bucharest, Carol I National College
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
poet, diarist, biographer, journalist, teacher
- Prince of Wales College, Dalhousie University
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
war correspondent, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Lancing College
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand