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John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
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
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
poet, philosopher, professor
- University of Oxford, Eton College
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, essayist, social critic
- New School, Bowling Green State University
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
Paul Theroux (born 1941)
literary critic, professor
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ben Bova (1932-2020)
journalist, editor
- Temple University, University of California
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009)
journalist, biographer, film scholar
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Northwestern University