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Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
poet, pedagogue, literary critic, essayist, inventor
- Victoria University, Radcliffe College
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
journalist, autobiographer, teacher, humorist, aphorist, opinion journalist
- Cascadilla School
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
Michael Cox (1948-2009)
biographer, teacher, literary scholar, literary historian
- University of Cambridge
Stephen King (born 1947)
television producer, actor, columnist, journalist, director, teacher, film director
- University of Maine, Hampden Academy
Michael Bishop (1945-2023)
journalist, poet, teacher, essayist
- University of Georgia
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford