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List of Famous Essayists

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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.

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Gore Vidal

Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell

George Orwell

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Clive James

Clive James

John Updike

John Updike

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

James Ellroy

James Ellroy

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Jean Genet

Anne Sexton

Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin

Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

David Mamet

David Mamet

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

John Ashbery

John Ashbery

David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Jack London

Jack London

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Fay Weldon

Saul Bellow

Lu Xun

Samuel Beckett

Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

Ken Kesey

Wallace Thurman

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

Vinicius de Moraes

Vinicius de Moraes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

André Gide

David Foster Wallace

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Bruce Benderson

Bruce Benderson

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

William Morris Meredith

William Morris Meredith

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Plutarch

Audre Lorde

Paul Rudnick

Paul Rudnick

Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

Robert Rodi

Robert Rodi

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato

Makiko esumi.

Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

Droz

Barbara Kingsolver

Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Alice thomas ellis.

Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers

Victor martinez.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove

John Gardner

John Gardner

Yuri Galanskov

Yuri Galanskov

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken

George tokoro.

Allen Tate

Robert A. Heinlein

C. J. Cherryh

C. J. Cherryh

Mark Strand

Mark Strand

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

Frank Rich

Vincent Buckley

Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl

Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates

Cherríe Moraga

Cherríe Moraga

Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin

Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

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