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James Baldwin (1924-1987)
poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, essayist, social critic
- New School, Bowling Green State University
Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
blogger, actor, composer, poet lawyer, lyricist, researcher
- St. Ignatius College
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, social critic, lyricist, journalist, critic
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Andrew Greeley (1928-2013)
journalist, sociologist, Catholic priest, columnist
- University of Chicago, University of Saint Mary of the Lake
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
theologian
- University of Oxford, Campbell College
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009)
journalist, biographer, film scholar
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Northwestern University