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Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
politician, comedian, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, professor, essayist, autobiographer, singer, television actor, stage actor, journalist, human rights activist
- California Labor School
Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
- Yale University, Cornell University
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, essayist, social critic
- New School, Bowling Green State University
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
playwright, essayist, professor, faculty member
- Kenyon College, Columbia University
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945)
autobiographer, actor, playwright
- Coombe Girls' School
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953)
naturalist, environmentalist, plant ecologist, ecologist, botanist
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford