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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
translator, autobiographer, human rights activist, journalist, missionary
- Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
poet, playwright, autobiographer, essayist
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
translator, Esperantist, autobiographer, journalist, Nobel Prize winner
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
William J. Mann (born 1963)
historian, journalist, biographer
- Wesleyan University
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
translator, essayist, journalist, philosopher, biographer, opinion journalist
- Military Engineering-Technical University, Nikolay engineering school
Robert L. Fish (1912-1981)
biographer