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)
- Robert A. Caro via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- Stacy Schiff
- Frances Burney via concept surface "diarist"
- Virginia Woolf
- James Truslow Adams
- Washington Irving
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Mark Twain
-
Mailer
surface form: Norman Mailer
- Lillian Hellman
- Raymond Carver
- Alice Walker
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh via concept surface "diarist"
- Susy Clemens via concept surface "diarist"
- Anne Frank via concept surface "diarist"
- Desmond MacCarthy
- Harold Bloom
- Stephen Fry
- Robert Upshur Woodward via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- Marcel Proust
- D. H. Lawrence
- Albert Camus
- Truman Capote
- Isabel Wilkerson via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
- Isaac Asimov
- William S. Burroughs
- David Foster Wallace
- Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
- Carson McCullers
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- William T. Vollmann
- Maksim Gorky
- Jonathan Lethem
- Gore Vidal
- Bertrand Russell
- Friedrich Schiller
- Gary Snyder
- James Russell Lowell
- Eric Raymond
- Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
- Thomas Paine via concept surface "pamphleteer"
- Umberto Eco
- Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
- Michael Arrington via concept surface "blogger"
- James Anthony Froude
- Julia Alvarez
- Will Rogers via concept surface "social commentator"
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Thomas Mann