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People in this occupation
Henry Ames Blood
1836 – 1900
Ibrahim Shihab
1932 – 1988
Paul Carton
1875 – 1947
Luis Jochamowitz
b. 1953
Gian Luigi Beccaria
b. 1936
John Paley
1871 – 1907
Ignacio Padilla
1968 – 2016
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 – 1882
Serge Latouche
b. 1940
José María Eguren
1874 – 1942
Jovan Skerlić
1877 – 1914
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
1786 – 1871
Nadia Urbinati
b. 1955
Komimasa Tanaka
1925 – 2000
Alma Sabatini
1922 – 1988
Hadaa Sendoo
b. 1961
Giorgi Kekelidze
b. 1984
Mindy Aloff
b. 1947
Mary Blewett
b. 1938
Edith Sitwell
1887 – 1964
André Velter
b. 1945
Guilherme de Almeida
1890 – 1969
Gabriel Gudding
b. 1966
Scott Sanders
b. 1945
André Maurois
1885 – 1967
David Sedaris
b. 1956
Sanda Stolojan
1919 – 2005
Jorge Aguilar Mora
1946 – 2024
François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno
1804 – 1884
Iztok Geister
b. 1945
Jules-Paul Tardivel
1851 – 1905
Claudio Willer
1940 – 2023
Christophe Van Gerrewey
b. 1982
Yevgeny Bunimovich
b. 1954
Oliver Tickell
b. 1955
Joyce Carol Oates
b. 1938
Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia
1811 – 1882
Adam Ferguson
1723 – 1816
Paolo Buzzi
1874 – 1956
Ye Si
1949 – 2013
Eromo Egbejule
b. 1990
Jovan Zivlak
b. 1947
Firuz Mustafa
b. 1952
Cornelio Fabro
1911 – 1995
Nina Bernstein
b. 1949
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862 – 1949
Serge Dumont
b. 1960
Jacques Laurent
1919 – 2000
William T. Vollmann
b. 1959
Charles Plisnier
1896 – 1952
Lucy Soulsby
1856 – 1927
Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 – 1834
Jérôme Champagne
b. 1958
Sheryl St. Germain
b. 1954
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti
1929 – 2017
Zadie Smith
b. 1975
Haris Vlavianos
b. 1957
Carla Porta Musa
1902 – 2012
Efe Ronald Chesterfield
b. 1988
Lila Guerrero
1906 – 1986
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
b. 1938
René Depestre
b. 1926
Pierre Lasserre
1867 – 1930
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
1896 – 1957
Anka Muhlstein
b. 1935
Jean-Louis Baudry
1930 – 2015
Patrick Braybrooke
1894 – 1956
Nikos Fokas
1927 – 2021
Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez
b. 1967
Kurt Hiller
1885 – 1972
Mao Kun
1512 – 1601
Paul Bénichou
1908 – 2001
Josip Osti
1945 – 2021
Nora Johnson
1933 – 2017
Joan Baptista Xuriguera i Parramona
1908 – 1987
Tom Sleigh
b. 1953
Diego Valverde Villena
b. 1967
Ron Padgett
b. 1942
Richard Bagot
1860 – 1921
Dobrica Ćosić
1921 – 2014
Lionel Groulx
1878 – 1967
Chantal Ringuet
Sven Kærup Bjørneboe
b. 1943
Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington
1917 – 2001
Alessandro Orsini
b. 1975
Martha McCaughey
b. 1966
Magda Cârneci
b. 1955
Jacques Aumont
b. 1942
Roohallah Jomei
b. 1974
Husne Ara Shahed
1953 – 2022
Adela Rogers St. Johns
1894 – 1988
John Keene
b. 1965
Vilém Závada
1905 – 1982
Józef Czapski
1896 – 1993
Sergio Noja Noseda
1931 – 2008
Vintilă Horia
1915 – 1992
Pierre Léon
1926 – 2013
Jan Rejsa
1886 – 1971
Alexei Parshchikov
1954 – 2009
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie
1824 – 1882