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linguists who wrote historical fiction
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Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
linguist, poet, journalist, translator, playwright, literary critic, typographer
Angela Carter (1940-1992)
linguist, translator, journalist, playwright, poet
- University of Bristol
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
linguist, diplomat, translator, illustrator, musician, orientalist
- Leiden University, Utrecht University
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926)
theologian, school teacher, cleric, philologist
- University of Cambridge
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999)
nurse, poet, linguist
- Dragon School
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Sylvia Day (born 1973)
blogger, linguist
- Defense Language Institute