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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Alain Vircondelet (born 1947)
biographer, literary critic
Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017)
historian, semiologist, literary critic, sociologist, geologist, literary theorist, essayist, critic, philosopher
José Saramago (1922-2010)
journalist, playwright, translator, poet, chronicler, essayist, diarist, literary critic, dramaturge, revolutionary
Roxane Gay (born 1974)
essayist, journalist, editing staff, literary critic
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
poet, diplomat, literary critic, journalist, critic, translator, politician, explorer, lyricist
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Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885-1950)
literary critic, biographer, journalist
Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
journalist, linguist, literary critic, television producer, scholar of English
