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MBTI & Writers Terry Pratchett: INTP

“Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. 

Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year.

The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.

Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. (…)

Pratchett died at his home on the morning of 12 March 2015 from Alzheimer's.

The Telegraph reported an unidentified source as saying that despite his previous discussion of assisted suicide, his death had been natural.”

MBTI & Celebs David Chase: INTJ

“David Henry Chase (born August 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter, showrunner, director, and producer.

He is best known for writing and producing the HBO drama The Sopranos which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007.

Chase has also produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He created the original series Almost Grown which aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989.

He has won seven Emmy Awards.

Chase's film debut came in 2012 with Not Fade Away, followed by The Many Saints of Newark (2021), a prequel film to the TV series The Sopranos.”

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Adam Price: ENFJ

“Adam Price (born 7 May 1967) is a Danish screenwriter, playwright, and restaurateur. (…)

His television series Ride Upon the Storm (DR, 2017 - 2018) has been sold widely around the world and was awarded the 2019 C21 Media international drama award in the category Best Non-English Language Drama. 

Price created the critically acclaimed television series Borgen (DR Drama 2008–2012), which was awarded a BAFTA award for Best International Drama. Price wrote Ragnarok (TV series) (2020).

For the theatre, Price has written a number of plays and musicals, lately the critically acclaimed A Conversation Before Death (the Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen 2014).”

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Leïla Slimani: INFJ

“Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. 

She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. 

In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. (…)

Chanson douce (lit. "sweet song") is the story of a double murder of two young siblings by their nanny, inspired by the killing by a nanny of the Krim children in Manhattan in 2012. 

The novel starts off with the immediate aftermath of the murder, and then recounts the backstory of the parents, a liberal, upper middle class Parisian couple, as well as their nanny, who is economically and psychologically struggling.”

MBTI & Writers Isabel Allende: ENFP

“Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born in Lima, Peru, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful.

Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."

In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism.”

MBTI & Celebs Robert Crumb: INTP

“Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb.

His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. (…)

As told by Crumb in his biographical film, his artwork was very conventional and traditional in the beginning. His earlier work shows this more restrained style.

In Crumb's own words, it was a lengthy drug trip on LSD that "left him fuzzy for two months" and led to him adopting the surrealistic, psychedelic style for which he has become known.

Crumb has been acclaimed for his attention to detail and satirical edge, but has also generated a significant amount of controversy for his graphic and very disturbing portrayals of sexuality and psychology.

There exists a feminist backlash against his comics because they became more "violently misogynistic, as he graphically poured what were essentially his masturbatory fantasies onto the printed page. Women were raped, dismembered, mutilated, and murdered, sometimes all at once."”

MBTI & Writers Anne Lamott: ENFP

“Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

She is also a progressive political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher.

Lamott is based in Marin County, California.

Her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical.

Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.”

MBTI & Celebs Jenny Odell: INFJ

“Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer and educator who is based in Oakland, California. (…)

Odell's work consists of acts of close observations such as bird watching, collecting screen shots, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce.

Her artwork has for example used images from Google Earth and Google Maps.

She has taught Internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University since 2013. She was artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive in 2017.

Her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019) is about "how to disconnect from the attention economy".”