Essayist
People in this occupation
Cheng Minghua
Jean Lemaire de Belges
1473 – 1524
Luc Benoist
1893 – 1980
Aldo Pellegrini
1903 – 1973
Marcin Wicha
1972 – 2025
Natacha Polony
b. 1975
Chandranath Basu
1844 – 1910
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
1897 – 1976
Harryette Mullen
b. 1953
Julia Older
b. 1941
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
b. 1978
Stanisław Lem
1921 – 2006
Abbie M. Gannett
1845 – 1895
Sergio Solmi
1899 – 1981
Xosé Neira Vilas
1928 – 2015
Adam Zamoyski
b. 1949
Jerrold Northrop Moore
1934 – 2024
Rosy Thomas
1927 – 2009
Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975
Eavan Boland
1944 – 2020
Louise Imogen Guiney
1861 – 1920
Erika Mann
1905 – 1969
Mikhail Osorgin
1878 – 1942
Alfredo Bosi
1936 – 2021
Cristina Piña
b. 1949
Catherine Goddard Clarke
1900 – 1968
Jon Juaristi
b. 1951
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1938 – 2025
Jorge de Sena
1919 – 1978
Sophie Létourneau
b. 1980
Laila Lalami
b. 1968
Shimizu Shikin
1868 – 1933
Mohsen Kadivar
b. 1959
Ermanno Bencivenga
b. 1950
James Sallis
1944 – 2026
Yamuna Devi
1942 – 2011
George Orwell
1903 – 1950
Ingeborg Bachmann
1926 – 1973
Matevž Kos
b. 1966
Amit Chaudhuri
b. 1962
Mohammad Beheshti Shirazi
b. 1951
Fred K. Prieberg
1928 – 2010
Jean-Louis Martinoty
1946 – 2016
Hermann Glaser
1928 – 2018
Thomas Hood
1799 – 1845
Santō Kyōden
1761 – 1816
Nuccio Ordine
1958 – 2023
Benjamin Korn
b. 1946
Lali Gulisashvili
1955 – 2022
Jean-Paul Desbiens
1927 – 2006
Yoseph Macwan
1940 – 2022
Paul Lafargue
1842 – 1911
Bruce Bawer
b. 1956
Étienne Parent
1802 – 1874
Eduardo Caballero Calderón
1910 – 1993
Jean-Claude Guillebaud
1944 – 2025
Karl Mickel
1935 – 2000
Simon Leys
1935 – 2014
Héctor Zumbado
1932 – 2016
Tom Flanagan
b. 1944
Pierre Yergeau
b. 1957
Konstantinos Poulis
b. 1973
Emile Capouya
1925 – 2005
Maajid Nawaz
b. 1977
Tae Hitoto
b. 1970
Edith Escombe
1866 – 1950
Fabio Carpi
1925 – 2018
Raniero Panzieri
1921 – 1964
Michael J. Astrue
b. 1956
Morvan Lebesque
1911 – 1970
Ulrike Draesner
b. 1962
Matei Călinescu
1934 – 2009
Edvard Westermarck
1862 – 1939
Toko Shinoda
1913 – 2021
Henri Joyeux
b. 1945
Robert Hartwell Fiske
1948 – 2016
Doris Fleischman
1891 – 1980
Markus Gasser
b. 1967
Betty Milan
b. 1944
Asma Mhalla
b. 1984
Juan José Sebreli
1930 – 2024
Pierre Suard
1934 – 2025
François Cusset
b. 1969
Elisa Lerner
1932 – 2024
William Auld
1924 – 2006
Konstantin Vanshenkin
1925 – 2012
Renée Dupuis
b. 1949
Clarence Day
1874 – 1935
Blanca Varela
1926 – 2009
Austin Wright
1922 – 2003
Richard Ali
b. 1984
Laura Jane Fraser
b. 1961
Pietro Bruto
1430 – 1493
Marthe Bibesco
1886 – 1973
Sally O'Reilly
b. 1971
Shigesato Itoi
b. 1948
Becca Rothfeld
Giuliana Morandini
1938 – 2019
Antoine Arnauld
1612 – 1694
Constantin G. Dissescu
1854 – 1932