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Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)
historian, essayist, businessperson, opinion journalist
- University of North Texas, Rice University
Emma Donoghue (born 1969)
literary historian, playwright
- University of Cambridge, University College Dublin
Alan Taylor (born 1955)
historian
- Colby College, Brandeis University
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
poet, playwright, literary critic, translator, historian, librettist, book collector, opinion journalist, dramaturge, essayist, bretteur
- Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Thomas More (1478-1535)
philosopher, historian, theologian, politician, poet, statesperson, poet lawyer, judge, diplomat
- Lincoln's Inn, University of Oxford
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alister McGrath (born 1953)
theologian, educator, church historian, chemist, philosopher, priest, biochemist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford