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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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945)
autobiographer, actor, playwright
- Coombe Girls' School
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
essayist, playwright, biographer, poet
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
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
autobiographer, biographer, politician
- Harrow School, Winchester College