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academics who wrote historical fiction
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Philip Roth (1933-2018)
essayist
- Rutgers University, University of Chicago
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian
- University of Turin
Philip Pullman (born 1946)
playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator
- University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy
Stephen Baxter (born 1957)
- University of Cambridge, University of Reading
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
playwright, poet, essayist, autobiographer, professor, diarist
- University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
journalist, film producer, playwright
- University of Oxford, Accrington and Rossendale College