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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
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
poet, playwright, autobiographer, essayist
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
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, social critic, lyricist, journalist, critic
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
poet, governess, teacher
- Pensionnat de Demoiselles
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