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Jack London (1876-1916)
journalist, war correspondent, essayist, autobiographer, poet, diarist, seaman
- University of California, Berkeley
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)
playwright, poet, lyricist, autobiographer
- University of Jena
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
poet, lyricist, politician, playwright, autobiographer, translator, military personnel, diarist, librettist, aristocrat, philhellene
- Harrow School, University of Cambridge
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960)
romanist, scholar of French literature, politician, autobiographer, diarist, journalist, philologist, opinion journalist, translator, Associate Professor
- Französisches Gymnasium Berlin
Colleen McCullough (1937-2015)
neurologist, biographer
- University of Sydney
Ivana Trump (1949-2022)
model, entrepreneur, skier, autobiographer, designer, alpine skier, hotel manager
- Charles University
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University
Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)
poet, painter, essayist, autobiographer, illustrator, drawer, caricaturist, artist
- Technical University of Munich, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf