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James Baldwin (1924-1987)
poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, essayist, social critic
- New School, Bowling Green State University
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Francine Prose (born 1947)
academic
- Radcliffe College, Harvard University
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, social critic, lyricist, journalist, critic
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Steve Jones (born 1944)
geneticist, scientist, television presenter, professor
- University of Edinburgh, University of Chicago
Alain Mabanckou (born 1966)
poet, poet lawyer
- Paris Dauphine University, University of Nantes
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford
A. S. Byatt (1936-2023)
poet, literary critic
- University of Oxford, Bryn Mawr College