What do you call a person who is not that smart academically but smart in literature?

Question

What do you call a person who is not that smart academically but smart in literature?

Answer 1

"well read"

Answer 2

Literati.

Answer 3

You'll still call them smart. Their smart in a specific subject. You can be the smartest person in US History but be the dumbest in Biology, or vise versa.

Answer 4

A beatnik? is that how you spell it?  LOL.. you need a black baret and snap alot.

:)

Answer 5

They don't have to be called anything.  You can call them "gifted" if you want.  Being considered "smart" doesn't mean they are an all around genious.