- List of essayists
This article is an abbreviated list of
essay ists - individuals notable for writing essays on various topics.Note: An individual's country of birth is not always indicative of his or her nationality.
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Augurio Abeto ,The Philippines
*Joseph Addison (1672-1719,England )
*Jean Améry (1912-1978,Austria )
*Kingsley Amis (1922–1995,United Kingdom )
*Martin Amis (born 1949,United Kingdom )
*Matthew Arnold (1822–1888,United Kingdom )
*Anastasia Ashman (born 1964,United States )
*Isaac Asimov (1920–1992,Russia )
*W. H. Auden (1907–1973,United Kingdom )B
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Francis Bacon (1561–1626,England )
* James Baldwin (1924-1987,United States )
*John Perry Barlow (born 1947,United States )
*Julian Barnes (born 1946,United Kingdom )
*Jacques Barzun (born 1907,France )
*Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867,France )
*Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953,United Kingdom )
*Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986,Argentina )
*Alain de Botton (born 1969,Switzerland )
*Giannina Braschi (born 1953,Puerto Rico ,United States )
* William Brandon (1914–2002,United States )
*Alfred Brendel (born 1931,Czechoslovakia )
*Christopher Buckley (born 1952,United States )
*Anthony Burgess (1917–1993,United Kingdom )
*Richard de Bury (1287–1345,England )C
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Italo Calvino (1923–1985,Italy )
*Albert Camus (1913–1960,Algeria )
*Rafael Cansinos Assens (1882–1964,Spain )
*John Carey (born 1934,United Kingdom )
*Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978,Austria )
*G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936,United Kingdom )
*J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940,Australia )
*William Cobbett (1763–1835,Great Britain )
*Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832,Great Britain )
*Cyril Connolly (1903–1974,United Kingdom )
*Emil Cioran (1911–1995) ll Romania)
*A. J. Cronin (1896-1981,Scotland )D
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Mike Daisey (born 1973,United States )
*Joan Didion (born 1934,United States )
*Annie Dillard (born 1945,United States )
* John Dolan (born 1955,United States )
*Denis Donoghue (born 1920,Ireland )
*John Dryden (1631–1700,England )E
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Klaus Ebner (born 1964,Austria )
*Umberto Eco (born 1932,Italy )
*T. S. Eliot (1888–1965,United States )
*Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882,United States )
* Joseph Epstein (born 1937,United States )
*Filip Erceg (born 1979,Croatia )F
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Anne Fadiman (born 1953),United States
*Frantz Fanon (1925-1961,Martinique )
*Richard Farmer (1735–1797,England )
*Benito Jerónimo Feijoo e Montenegro (1676-1764,Spain )
*E. M. Forster (1879-1970,England )
*Ian Frazier (born 1951,United States )
*Robert Fulghum (born 1937,United States )
*Joan Fuster (1922–1992,Catalan Countries )G
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Harry Gamboa, Jr. (born 1951,United States )
*Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954,Austria )
*Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963,United Kingdom )
*Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002,United States )
*Paul Graham (born 1964,Weymouth ,England )
*A. C. Grayling (born 1949,United Kingdom )H
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Carla Harryman (born 1952,California )
*William Hazlitt (1778–1830,England )
*Saeko Himuro (1957-2008,Japan )
*Fumi Hirano (born 1955,Japan )
*Christopher Hitchens (born 1949,United Kingdom )
*Hugh Hood (1928–2000,Canada )
*Langston Hughes (1902–1967,United States )
*Leigh Hunt (1784–1859,England )J
* Michael Johns (born 1964,
United States )
*Samuel Johnson (1709–1784,England )K
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Frank Kermode (born 1919,United Kingdom )
*Chuck Klosterman (born 1972,United States )
*Miroslav Krleza (1893–1981,Croatia )L
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Tomislav Ladan (born 1932,Serbia )
*Laila Lalami (born 1968,Morocco )
*Charles Lamb (1775–1834,England )
*Shankar Lamichhane ,Nepal
*Corinne Lee (United States )
*C. S. Lewis (1898–1963,Ireland )
*Tim Lilburn (born 1950,Canada )
*Xun Lu (1881-1936,China )M
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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949),Belgium )
*Norman Mailer (1923–2007,United States )
*Jorge Majfud (born 1969,Uruguay )
*Nathan McCall (born 1955,United States )
* Mary McCarthy (1912–1989,United States )
*Tim McKay (born 1947,United States )
*H. L. Mencken (1880–1956,United States )
*Arthur Miller (1915–2005,United States )
*Pankaj Mishra (born 1969,India )
*Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908,United States )
*Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592,France )N
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V. S. Naipaul (born 1932,Trinidad and Tobago )
*Ukichiro Nakaya (1900-1962,Japan )
*Virgil Nemoianu (born 1940,Romania )
*Celeste Newbrough (born 1939,United States )
*Kathleen Norris (poet) (born 1947,United States )O
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Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938,United States )
*Guy d'Obonner (born 1956,Ireland )
*George Orwell (1903–1950,United Kingdom )P
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Noel Perrin (1927–2004,United States }
* Sam Pickering (born 1941,United States )
*Mestrius Plutarch (46–127,Boeotia ,Ancient Greece )
*Katherine Ann Porter (1890–1980,United States )
*Kevin Prufer (born 1969,United States )
*Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849,United States )Q
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Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859,England )R
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Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1985,United States )
*Richard Rodriguez (born 1944,United States )
*Bertrand Russell (1872–1970,United Kingdom )*
Edward Said (1935–2003, Palestine)
*John Ralston Saul (born 1947,Canada )
* Dan Schneider (born 1965,United States )
*Robert Schumann (1810–1856,Germany )
*David Sedaris (born 1956,United States )
*Rafael Calvo Serer (1916–1988,Spain )
*George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950,Ireland )
*Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822,England )
*Clay Shirky (born ???,United States )
*Andrew Slattery (born 1981,Australia )
*Jean Edward Smith (born 1932,United States )
*Walid Soliman (born 1975,Tunisia )
*Rebecca Solnit ,United States
*Susan Sontag (1933–2004,United States )
*Lytton Strachey (1880–1932,United Kingdom )T
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Vijay Tendulkar (b. 1928)India
*Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)Russia
*Lionel Trilling (1905–1975,United States )
*George W. S. Trow (1943-2006,United States )V
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Andrew Vachss (born 1942,United States )
*Gore Vidal (born 1925,United States )
* François de Voltaire (1697–1778,France )W
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Richard Wagner (1813–1883,Germany )
*Rebecca West (1892–1983,United Kingdom )
*E. B. White (1899–1985,United States )
*Oscar Wilde (1852-1900),Ireland )
*Tom Wolfe (born 1931,United States )
*Virginia Woolf (1882–1941,United Kingdom )Y
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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987,France )ee also
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List of writers
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