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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
journalist, film producer, actor, poet, stage actor, editor, film actor, suffragist, playwright
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
poet, essayist, literary critic
- University of Virginia, United States Military Academy
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
essayist, playwright, biographer, poet
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
playwright, journalist, poet
- Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Pierre-Corneille
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)
film director, composer, film producer, film editor, lyricist, journalist, painter, cinematographer, poet, film critic, director
- University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art