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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
William Morris (1834-1896)
architect, poet, designer, graphic designer, painter, politician, illustrator
- University of Oxford, Marlborough College
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Jane Yolen (born 1939)
editor, poet
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College
E. B. White (1899-1985)
poet, journalist, editor, essayist
- Cornell University
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher
- Rostov State University