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L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000)
military officer, historian, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- California Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian
- University of Turin
Len Deighton (born 1929)
journalist, historian, playwright, photographer, film producer, illustrator
- Saint Martin's School of Art, Royal College of Art
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
- University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh School of Law
C. J. Sansom (1952-2024)
historian, jurist, solicitor
- University of Birmingham
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
playwright, historian, literary critic, teacher, poet, opinion journalist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher
- Rostov State University
Kir Bulychev (1934-2003)
historian, translator, orientalist, playwright
- Moscow State Linguistic University