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literary critic
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher and communications scholar (1911–1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Sidney Lee
English biographer and critic (1859–1926)
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
Alan Hollinghurst
English novelist (born 1954)
James Blish
American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
Alejandro Zambra
Chilean poet and writer (1975)
Ruth Berlau
Danish actress, director, photographer and writer
Damon Knight
American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002)
Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Spanish academic
Clive James
Australian writer and broadcaster (1939–2019)
Arthur Mizener
American professor (1907–1988)
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German Enlightenment writer (1729–1781)
René Marill Albérès
French writer and literary critic
Camille Paglia
American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)
Howard Rheingold
American critic, writer, and teacher (born 1947)
Josef Václav Sládek
Czech poet, publicist and translator (1845–1912)
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Polish writer and translator (1874–1941)
Josef Škvorecký
Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924–2012)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
William Hazlitt
19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
Christa Wolf
German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)
Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
Susan Sontag
American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004)
Todd F. Davis
American poet
Bayard Taylor
United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825–1878)