essayist

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concept

An essayist is a writer who composes short, non-fiction prose pieces that explore ideas, experiences, or arguments with a distinctive personal voice and reflective insight.

All labels observed (22)

Label Occurrences
essayist canonical 1,142
non-fiction writer 186
diarist 97

Instances (1,624)

Instance Via concept surface
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
Kenneth Rexroth
Frederick Rolfe LGBT writer
William Dalrymple non-fiction writer
Michael Reid
surface form: Michael Reid (writer)
non-fiction writer
Simic
surface form: Charles Simic
Jayne Anne Phillips
Bill Buford non-fiction writer
D. T. Max non-fiction writer
Matthew Logelin blogger
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Jin Xuefei
Dugald Semple
César Aira
William Gass
surface form: William H. Gass
Julia Cass non-fiction writer
Callie
surface form: Katherine Anne Porter
Monteiro Lobato
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Cesare Pavese
Nock
surface form: Albert Jay Nock
Lysander Spooner pamphleteer
Glenn Greenwald blogger
Matthew Desmond non-fiction writer
John Wilson
Mikhail Naimy
Peter Rühmkorf
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Chee
surface form: Alexander Chee
Domenico Oliva Italian writer
Victoria Ocampo
William Empson
Dobrica Ćosić
Nicky Hager non-fiction writer
Peter Calvocoressi non-fiction writer
F. R. Leavis
Walter Lord non-fiction writer
Susan Howe
Ameen Rihani
Czesław Miłosz
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Edwidge Danticat
Shabana Rehman social commentator
Jean Sasson non-fiction writer
Han Suyin
Frederic W. H. Myers
Gerald Heard
Henry Giroux cultural critic
Bella Akhmadulina
R. H. Hutton