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academics who wrote mystery
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Diana Gabaldon (born 1952)
scientist
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Haruki Murakami (born 1949)
linguist, translator, essayist, athletics competitor
- Waseda University
Philip Pullman (born 1946)
playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator
- University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy
Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
blogger, actor, composer, poet lawyer, lyricist, researcher
- St. Ignatius College
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)
philosopher, essayist, satirist, futurist, poet, physician, researcher, playwright
- Lviv University, Jagiellonian University
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art