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)

• Helen Garner
• René François Armand Prudhomme
• Baron Verulam
  surface form: Francis Bacon, 1st Baron Verulam
• Julian Huxley
• H. P. Lovecraft
• John Perry Barlow
• J. B. S. Haldane
• John Aikin
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Stéphane Mallarmé
• Arthur Miller
• Elizabeth Kolbert via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Charles Darwin (son of Erasmus Darwin) via concept surface "diarist"
• François
  surface form: François Sully Prudhomme
• Monika Mann
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Odd Nansen via concept surface "diarist"
• Richard Wagner
• Cory Doctorow via concept surface "blogger"
• Klaus Mann
• Golo Mann
• Francis Bacon
• Salman Rushdie
• Arthur
  surface form: Arthur Miller
• Heinrich Mann
• Vincent Gaddis via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Amiri Baraka
• Christopher Isherwood via concept surface "diarist"
• Bob Black
• Orestes Brownson via concept surface "American essayist"
• Sarah Pierpont Edwards via concept surface "diarist"
• Nick Hornby
• James Michener via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
  surface form: James A. Michener
• Matthew Garrett via concept surface "blogger"
• Michel de Montaigne
• Alice James via concept surface "diarist"
• Johann Georg Hamann via concept surface "critic"
• W.B. Yeats
• George Bernard Shaw via concept surface "critic"
• Yoko Tawada
• Ilija Trojanow
• Herbert Spencer
• Sully Prudhomme
• Feridun Zaimoglu
• Wallace Thurman
• Voltaire
• Jim Carroll via concept surface "diarist"
• Jean Toomer
• Samuel Johnson
• Alain Locke