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John Updike (1932-2009)
poet, essayist, playwright, art critic, literary critic, journalist
- Harvard University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
poet, art critic, essayist, translator, literary critic, critic, journalist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
John Berger (1926-2017)
art historian, painter, journalist, poet, critic, opinion journalist, art critic
- Chelsea College of Art and Design, Central School of Art and Design
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
essayist, autobiographer, social critic, diarist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943)
literary historian, literary critic, journalist, Shakespearean scholar, literary theorist
- Yale University, University of Cambridge