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poets who wrote historical fiction
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
war correspondent, journalist, playwright, poet
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
carpenter, publisher, essayist, printer, nurse, school teacher, journalist, poet
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
nurse, poet, teacher, domestic worker, suffragist
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
playwright, journalist, poet
- Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Pierre-Corneille
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Yale University
James Hogg (1770-1835)
poet, biographer