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Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929)
film director, playwright, film editor, philosopher, poet, theatrical director, mime artist, actor, composer, artist, puppeteer, sculptor, essayist, painter, drawer, director, film producer, comics creator, comics artist, penciller, tarotologist
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoir [by] Ezra Pound](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5911307-M.jpg)
![Antheil and the Treatise on harmony, with supplementary notes 1927 [Leather Bound]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8768296-M.jpg)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
poet, playwright, librarian, chess composer
![Great Short Stories of the World [30 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8755014-M.jpg)
Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)
activist, composer, translator, suffragist
