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Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
playwright, biographer
James Ellroy (born 1948)
autobiographer
Stephen Fry (born 1957)
actor, comedian, television presenter, autobiographer, director, television actor, stage actor, film actor, journalist, film director, improviser, performing artist, narrator
- University of Cambridge, Uppingham School
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
war correspondent, autobiographer, diarist
- University of Oxford, Lancing College
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
translator, playwright, intellectual, journalist, autobiographer
- Cairo University
Stendhal (1783-1842)
autobiographer, diarist, biographer, diplomat, art historian