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poets who wrote historical fiction
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Sandra Cisneros (born 1954)
poet, essayist, teacher, arts administrator
- Loyola University Chicago, University of Chicago
Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941)
librettist, poet
- University of Oxford, Bryanston School
Wendell Berry (born 1934)
poet, farmer
- Millersburg Military Institute, Stanford University
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
poet, librarian, playwright
- University of Chicago, Pacific Union College
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
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
N. Scott Momaday (1934-2024)
poet, scholar of English
- University of New Mexico, Stanford University
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
poet, teacher
- Harvard University, University of Michigan