Essayist

This page lists 3,663 biographies of essayists, covering lives from AD 40 to 2000. Featuring Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Emmanuel Todd and Gabriel de Broglie. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Meiling Cheng

Bertrand Vac

1914 – 2010

João Barrento

b. 1940

Zef Mala

1915 – 1979

Ernesto Hernández Busto

b. 1968

Empress Zhangsun

601 – 636

William Johnson Temple

1739 – 1796

Jacqueline Aimée Brohon

1731 – 1778

Lorimer Denis

1905 – 1957

Navalram Pandya

1836 – 1888

Judith Wax

John Foster

1770 – 1843

Greta Gaard

b. 1960

Olga Drenda

b. 1984

Jo Ann Beard

b. 1955

Franco Moretti

b. 1950

Plutarch

AD 40 – 120

Mian Bakhsh Laghari

David Irving

b. 1938

Hervé Juvin

b. 1956

Nicola Chiaromonte

1905 – 1972

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

1926 – 2013

Devorah Blachor

Dmitry Pisarev

1840 – 1868

E. W. F. Tomlin

1913 – 1988

Adelaide Mary Branch

1873 – 1948

Josh Wilker

Beth Ann Fennelly

b. 1971

Giuseppe Rosaroll

1775 – 1825

Robert Steuckers

b. 1956

Paul Willemen

1944 – 2012

Alfonso Toral Moreno

1914 – 2003

Michel Monnerie

b. 1940

Simon Harel

b. 1957

Masaru Emoto

1943 – 2014

Marco Giusti

b. 1953

Akiko Kumai

1940 – 2024

Gretel Ehrlich

b. 1946

Patricia Crowther

1927 – 2025

Caren Lissner

b. 1972

David Rakoff

1964 – 2012

Stewart Brand

b. 1938

Erumeli Parameswaran Pillai

1932 – 2014

Elizabeth Banks

1865 – 1938

Jerre Mangione

1909 – 1998

Tristan Mendès France

b. 1970

Nobuko Kan

b. 1945

Donovan Hohn

b. 1972

K. Sukumaran

1876 – 1956

James Goldberg

Paul Huson

b. 1942

Janice Raymond

b. 1943

Sloane Crosley

b. 1978

Paipra Radhakrishnan

b. 1952

Katalin Bánffy

Emilia Pardo Bazán

1851 – 1921

Isabella Vincentini

b. 1954

Pran Nath Luthra

1917 – 2000

Robert Burton

1577 – 1640

Yamazaki Yoshishige

1796 – 1856

Maya Tiwari

b. 1952

Albert Jay Nock

1870 – 1945

John Ovington

1653 – 1731

Kenneth E. Hartman

b. 1960

François-Bernard Huyghe

1951 – 2022

Joaquín Edwards Bello

1887 – 1968

Francesco Gnerre

1944 – 2025

Christian Kobluk

b. 2000

Guylaine Lanctôt

1941 – 2025

Mark Riebling

b. 1963

Andrea Dworkin

1946 – 2005

Robert Collier

1885 – 1950

Bat Ye'or

b. 1933

Emily Urquhart

b. 1977

Emilio Jorge Rodríguez

b. 1947

Antonio Caronia

1944 – 2013

Sonia E. Howe

b. 1871

Fanny Quincy Howe

1870 – 1933

Judith Arcana

b. 1943

Bernard Sesé

1929 – 2020

Lu Xun

1881 – 1936

Astrid Ljungström

1905 – 1987

Mikita Brottman

b. 1966

Leonard Oprea

b. 1953

Dominic Pettman

John Weightman

1915 – 2004

Edward Kossoy

1913 – 2012

Stephen Fried

b. 1958

Corkin Cherubini

b. 1944

Frédéric Luz

b. 1964

Alan D. Mickle

Louisa Jane Hall

1802 – 1892

Julien Raimond

1744 – 1801

Patrick Rosal

Howard Lyman

b. 1938

Deborah Baker

b. 1959

Juš Kozak

1892 – 1964

Zivion

1874 – 1954

Jasmuheen

b. 1957

Rax King