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Dan Brown (born 1964)
teacher, journalist, musician, researcher
- Amherst College, Phillips Exeter Academy
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
poet, literary critic, journalist, translator
- Kenyon College, Vanderbilt University
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
politician, journalist, statesperson, naval officer, anti-communist
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard College
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
journalist, historian of Modern Age, historian, mathematician, secretary, editor, art historian
- Harvard University, Humboldt University of Berlin
Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
diplomat, lawyer, journalist, poet lawyer, playwright, opinion journalist, lecturer, critic, polymath
- National Autonomous University of Mexico, The Grange School, Santiago
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
- University of Oxford, University of St Andrews
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute