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.
Observed surface forms (12)
- non-fiction writer ×24
- diarist ×21
- blogger ×8
- critic ×8
- pamphleteer ×7
- Italian writer ×6
- aphorist ×3
- cultural critic ×3
- LGBT writer ×2
- American essayist ×1
- French essayist ×1
- social commentator ×1
Instances (288)
- Steve Martin
- George Eliot
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- José Martí
- Carl Bernstein via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- Georges Sorel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Flavius Josephus via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- James Baldwin
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Alejo Carpentier
- Henry Adams
- Walt Whitman
- Langston Hughes
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Florence King
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Herman Melville
- William Faulkner
- Henry David Thoreau
- Max Frisch via concept surface "diarist"
- John Muir
- Samuel Sewall via concept surface "diarist"
- Flannery O'Connor
- Isaiah Berlin
- Ahad Ha'am
- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
-
Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega
via concept surface "blogger"
surface form: Eskinder Nega
- Jeff Jarvis via concept surface "blogger"
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Francesco Petrarca via concept surface "Italian writer"
- Jack London
- Jean-Paul Marat via concept surface "pamphleteer"
- Alison Bechdel via concept surface "LGBT writer"
- Maggie Nelson via concept surface "critic"
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- T. E. Hulme
- Samuel Beckett
- Charles Baudelaire
- Ezra Pound
- W. H. Auden
- Ted Hughes
- John Milton
- Timothy Ferris via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- Constance Casey
- Leslie Stephen
-
Freeman
surface form: Freeman Dyson