Essayist
People in this occupation
Sergio Villalobos
b. 1930
Maria Giacobbe
1928 – 2024
Jean Madiran
1920 – 2013
Hiroyuki Iwaki
1932 – 2006
Catherine David
1949 – 2023
Jean Dubreuil
1602 – 1670
Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub
1924 – 1996
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
1847 – 1912
Léon de Montesquiou
1873 – 1915
Émeline Pierre
b. 1980
Petru Dumitriu
1924 – 2002
Louis-Joseph Papineau
1786 – 1871
James Baldwin
1924 – 1987
Elizabeth Griffith
1727 – 1793
Nana Isaiah
1934 – 2003
Silvio Negro
1897 – 1959
Émile Zola
1840 – 1902
Helen McLean
1927 – 2017
Andrea Purgatori
1953 – 2023
Ahmad Beiranvand
b. 1985
Alexandru Paleologu
1919 – 2005
Taghi Rahmani
b. 1959
Kuttipuzha Krishna Pillai
1900 – 1971
Wilhelm Busch
1832 – 1908
Manès Sperber
1905 – 1984
Jan Wagner
b. 1971
Daniil Granin
1919 – 2017
Shamshad Abdullaev
1957 – 2024
Gerald Stern
1925 – 2022
Miladin Ševarlić
b. 1943
Daniel Kriegman
b. 1951
Jeremy Bernstein
1929 – 2025
Jadwiga Staniszkis
1942 – 2024
Oscar Masotta
1930 – 1979
Inger Christensen
1935 – 2009
Jean Giraudoux
1882 – 1944
Marcel Proust
1871 – 1922
Norman Cantor
1929 – 2004
Tony Judt
1948 – 2010
Langston Hughes
1902 – 1967
Victor Scherrer
1943 – 2022
Germaine Dieterlen
1903 – 1999
Thierry Groensteen
b. 1957
Caroline Slade
1886 – 1975
María Alicia Domínguez
1904 – 1988
Luise Gottsched
1713 – 1762
Gevorg Emin
1919 – 1998
Sotiris Trivizas
b. 1960
Charisse Jones
b. 1956
Stéphane Zagdanski
b. 1963
Jamaica Kincaid
b. 1949
Joseph-Octave Plessis
1763 – 1825
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1926 – 2004
Anton Holban
1902 – 1937
Peter de Mendelssohn
1908 – 1982
Rodrigo Pesántez Rodas
1937 – 2020
Marie d'Agoult
1805 – 1876
Raymond Jean
1925 – 2012
Anne Roiphe
b. 1935
Gregory Frost
b. 1951
Rebecca West
1892 – 1983
Mary Meilak
1905 – 1975
Alejo Carpanter
1904 – 1980
Paul Goma
1935 – 2020
Robyn Dawes
1936 – 2010
Larry McMurtry
1936 – 2021
Joseph Conrad
1857 – 1924
Akiko Yosano
1878 – 1942
Wafa Sultan
b. 1958
François Zourabichvili
1965 – 2006
Cristobal Bellolio
b. 1979
Abraham Cowley
1618 – 1667
Rafael Arráiz Lucca
b. 1959
Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1829 – 1870
Ernest Gellner
1925 – 1995
Vijay Shastri
b. 1945
Anna Augusta Truitt
1837 – 1920
Elena Bacaloglu
1878 – 1947
Bohdan Urbankowski
1943 – 2023
Juan Arnau
b. 1968
Katharine Wylde
1854 – 1941
Jaime Manrique
b. 1949
Giorgos Markopoulos
b. 1951
Christie Tate
Mircea Ciobanu
1940 – 1996
David L. Robbins
b. 1954
Luis Alberto Ambroggio
b. 1945
Augusta Webster
1837 – 1894
Birgitta Trotzig
1929 – 2011
Normand Lester
b. 1945
Debra Dickerson
b. 1959
Elisa Albert
b. 1978
Lena Constante
1909 – 2005
Gottfried Benn
1886 – 1956
Sarojini Sahoo
b. 1956
Walt Whitman
1819 – 1892
Erwin Axer
1917 – 2012
María del Carmen Reina Jiménez
b. 1942
Alfred Kazin
1915 – 1998
Ikuma Dan
1924 – 2001