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)

• Paolo Giordano via concept surface "Italian writer"
• Askia Touré
• Maxine Ting Ting Hong
• Kay Boyle
• Rosella Postorino via concept surface "Italian writer"
• Irving
  surface form: Washington Irving
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Isaac D'Israeli
• John Dos Passos
• E. E. Cummings
• Jonathan Franzen
• Nikki Giovanni
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• Adrienne Rich
• Ishmael Reed
• Plutarch
• Jeffrey Kluger via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Sasha Sagan
• Philip Roth
• Richard Wright
• Maurice Maeterlinck
• Dorian Sagan
• George Dyson (science historian) via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
  surface form: George Dyson
• Franco Antonicelli
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• Leonida Repaci via concept surface "Italian writer"
• Arundhati Roy
• June Jordan
• William Dean Howells
• Malcolm Gladwell via concept surface "non-fiction writer"
• Raymond Aron
• Orhan Pamuk
• Low family via concept surface "diarist"
  surface form: Harriet Low
• Mary
  surface form: Mary Flannery O'Connor
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
• Joyce Carol Oates
• William Graham Sumner
• Elif Şafak
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Ali Smith
• Sei Shōnagon
• Joseph Conrad
• Edith Wharton
• John Galsworthy
• Italo Calvino
• Claudia Rankine
• Norman Mailer
• Violet Bonham Carter via concept surface "diarist"
• Mercy Otis Warren via concept surface "pamphleteer"
• Tom Brokaw via concept surface "non-fiction writer"