essayist

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)

• Daniel Defoe via concept surface "pamphleteer"
• Sophia Tolstaya via concept surface "diarist"
• Guarino Guarini via concept surface "Italian writer"
• John Dickinson via concept surface "pamphleteer"
• Norman Spinrad
• John Stuart Mill
• David Hume
• Tom Engelhardt
• Lytton Strachey
• Roger Fry
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• E. M. Forster
• Barlow
  surface form: John Perry Barlow
• Richard Price
• Irving Babbitt
• Charles Dudley Warner
• Stephen Kinzer via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Juan Cole via concept surface "blogger"
• Bertolt Brecht
• Christopher Hitchens
• Heinrich Heine
• Thomas Carlyle
• William James
• Walter Benjamin via concept surface "cultural critic"
• Salman
  surface form: Salman Rushdie
• Zadie Smith
• William Craig via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Günter Grass
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Mary Shelley
• T. S. Eliot
• Satyajit Ray
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Greg Grandin via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Alexander Pope
• David Kirkpatrick via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Michael H. Hart via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Robin Hanson via concept surface "blogger"
• Mohsin Hamid
• Archibald MacLeish
• Jonathan Swift
• Jibanananda Das
• Margaret Atwood
• Oscar Wilde
• Samuel Pepys via concept surface "diarist"
• Wallace
  surface form: David Foster Wallace
• Toni Morrison
• Leo Tolstoy
• Lawrence Wright via concept surface "non-fiction writer"