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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
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
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
poet, diplomat, politician, lyricist, autobiographer
- University of Chile
James Thurber (1894-1961)
journalist, playwright, autobiographer, drawer, humorist, essayist, cartoonist
- Ohio State University
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
poet, musicologist, historian, journalist, biographer, trade unionist
- Lombard College
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009)
journalist, biographer, film scholar
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Northwestern University
Jerry B. Jenkins (born 1949)
biographer