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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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Jack London (1876-1916)
journalist, war correspondent, essayist, autobiographer, poet, diarist, seaman
- University of California, Berkeley
Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
diarist
- Columbia University, Yeshiva University
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
Gene Wilder (1933-2016)
actor, film director, comedian, television actor, film producer, stage actor, diarist, director
- University of Iowa, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Jim Carroll (1949-2009)
singer, poet, diarist, lyricist
- Columbia University, Wagner College