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List of Famous Essayists
List of famous essayists, with photos, bios, and other information when available. Who are the top essayists in the world? This includes the most prominent essayists, living and dead, both in America and abroad. This list of notable essayists is ordered by their level of prominence, and can be sorted for various bits of information, such as where these historic essayists were born and what their nationality is. The people on this list are from different countries, but what they all have in common is that they're all renowned essayists.
The list you're viewing is made up of people like Gore Vidal and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Featuring American essayists and others, this list has it all.
Christopher Hitchens
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marcel Proust
Leo Tolstoy
Isaac Asimov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Langston Hughes
Rachel Carson
Philip K. Dick
August Strindberg
Clive James
John Updike
Samuel Johnson
Victor Hugo
James Baldwin
James Ellroy
John Kenneth Galbraith
Jorge Luis Borges
Larry Kramer
Joyce Carol Oates
Zadie Smith
Nora Ephron
Wallace Shawn
Anne Sexton
Taslima Nasrin
Daniel Dennett
Charles Baudelaire
David Mamet
Norman Mailer
Milton Friedman
Anthony Burgess
W. H. Auden
John Ashbery
David Rakoff
Jack London
Giacomo Leopardi
Robert Hayden
Arthur Miller
Saul Bellow
Samuel Beckett
Philip Roth
Samuel R. Delany
Joan Didion
Colm Tóibín
Salman Rushdie
Yukio Mishima
Stephen Spender
Wallace Thurman
Hannah Arendt
E. M. Forster
Flannery O'Connor
Naguib Mahfouz
Vinicius de Moraes
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pete Hamill
David Foster Wallace
Margaret Atwood
Bruce Benderson
Wole Soyinka
William Morris Meredith
Mary Shelley
Michael Bishop
William Carlos Williams
Ralph Ellison
Carlos Fuentes
Audre Lorde
Paul Rudnick
Richard Rodriguez
Robert Rodi
Ernesto Sabato
Makiko esumi.
Edoardo Sanguineti
Mario Vargas Llosa
John Perry Barlow
Jonathan Franzen
Barbara Kingsolver
Archibald MacLeish
Susan Sontag
Alice thomas ellis.
Stanisław Lem
Heinrich Heine
Adrienne Rich
Dorothy L. Sayers
Victor martinez.
Orson Scott Card
Alicia Ostriker
Joseph Addison
Harry Turtledove
John Gardner
Yuri Galanskov
Czesław Miłosz
José Ortega y Gasset
Alberto Moravia
Cynthia Ozick
Max Beerbohm
Wallace Stevens
Conrad Aiken
George tokoro.
Robert A. Heinlein
C. J. Cherryh
Mark Strand
Atul Gawande
Vincent Buckley
Herman Melville
Frederik Pohl
Henry Louis Gates
Cherríe Moraga
Daniel J. Boorstin
Mircea Eliade
Lists about novelists, poets, short story authors, journalists, essayists, and playwrights, from simple rankings to fun facts about the men and women behind the pens.
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