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Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
fabulist, aphorist, diarist, translator, lawyer, poet lawyer, claims adjuster
- German University in Prague, Charles University
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
playwright, poet, essayist, autobiographer, professor, diarist
- University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University
Michael Palin (born 1943)
actor, comedian, diarist, singer, film actor, television presenter, television actor
- University of Oxford, Shrewsbury School
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
- King's College London
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand