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Sima Qian
historian, poet, astrologer, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer
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
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
philosopher, essayist, environmentalist
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
essayist, philosopher
![The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14411044-M.jpg)
![Nouvelles. [1], 1947-1952](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8761184-M.jpg)
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
poet, philosopher
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
Apuleius (0124-0169)
philosopher, poet, rhetorician, physician
Andrei Bely (1880-1934)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, literary critic, philosopher, critic, poetry study, illustrator
