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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
Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948)
- University of Edinburgh, Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian
- University of Turin
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)
essayist, literary critic, genealogist, historian, journalist, philosopher
- Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University