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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
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
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
journalist
- John Hampden Grammar School
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
James Thurber (1894-1961)
journalist, playwright, autobiographer, drawer, humorist, essayist, cartoonist
- Ohio State University
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, social critic, lyricist, journalist, critic
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
playwright, essayist, journalist
- University of Michigan
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
journalist
- Syracuse University, University of Rochester