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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
journalist, autobiographer, teacher, humorist, aphorist, opinion journalist
- Cascadilla School
Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
poet, playwright, essayist, journalist, biographer, opinion journalist
- Lincoln University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
politician, lawyer, diplomat, essayist, playwright, biographer, journalist, historian
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
translator, essayist, journalist, philosopher, biographer, opinion journalist
- Military Engineering-Technical University, Nikolay engineering school
James Hogg (1770-1835)
poet, biographer