List of essayists

This article is an abbreviated list of essayists, individuals notable for writing essays on various topics.

Note: An individual's country of birth is not always indicative of his or her nationality.

Contents:

Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Augurio Abeto, (The Philippines) Andre Aciman, (born 1951, Egypt) Joseph Addison (1672–1719, England) Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969, Germany) Jean Améry (1912–1978, Austria) Kingsley Amis (1922–1995, United Kingdom) Martin Amis (born 1949, United Kingdom)

Jacob M. Appel (born 1973, United States) Matthew Arnold (1822–1888, United Kingdom) Anastasia Ashman (born 1964, United States) Margaret Atwood (born 1939, Canada) Isaac Asimov (1920–1992, Russia) W. H. Auden (1907–1973, United Kingdom)

B

Rambriksh Benipuri (1902–1968, India) Francis Bacon (1561–1626, England) James Baldwin (1924–1987, United States) Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825, England) John Perry Barlow (born 1947, United States) Julian Barnes (born 1946, United Kingdom) Jacques Barzun (born 1907, France) Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867, France) Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953, United Kingdom)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986, Argentina) Alain de Botton (born 1969, Switzerland) Giannina Braschi (born 1953, Puerto Rico, United States) William Brandon (1914–2002, United States) Alfred Brendel (born 1931, Czechoslovakia) Christopher Buckley (born 1952, United States) Anthony Burgess (1917–1993, United Kingdom) Richard de Bury (1287–1345, England)

C

Italo Calvino (1923–1985, Italy) Albert Camus (1913–1960, Algeria) Rafael Cansinos Assens (1882–1964, Spain) John Carey (born 1934, United Kingdom) Simon Carmiggelt (1913–1987, Netherlands) Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978, Austria) G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936, United Kingdom) Noam Chomsky (1928, United States)

Winston Churchill (1874–1965, Great Britain) J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940, South Africa) William Cobbett (1763–1835, Great Britain) Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832, Great Britain) Cyril Connolly (1903–1974, United Kingdom) Emil Cioran (1911–1995, Romania) A. J. Cronin (1896–1981, Scotland) Orson Scott Card (b. 1951, United States)

D

Richard Dawkins (born 1941, United Kingdom) Mike Daisey (born 1973, United States) Nik De Dominic (born 1981, United States) Joan Didion (born 1934, United States)

Annie Dillard (born 1945, United States) John Dolan (born 1955, United States) Denis Donoghue (born 1920, Ireland) John Dryden (1631–1700, England)

E

Klaus Ebner (born 1964, Austria) Umberto Eco (born 1932, Italy) T. S. Eliot (1888–1965, United States)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882, United States) Joseph Epstein (born 1937, United States) Filip Erceg (born 1979, Croatia)

F

Anne Fadiman (born 1953, United States) Femi Fani-Kayode (born 1960, Nigeria) Frantz Fanon (1925–1961, Martinique) Richard Farmer (1735–1797, England) Benito Jerónimo Feijoo e Montenegro (1676–1764, Spain)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919, United States) E. M. Forster (1879–1970, England) Ian Frazier (born 1951, United States) Robert Fulghum (born 1937, United States) Joan Fuster (1922–1992, Catalan Countries)

G

Harry Gamboa, Jr. (born 1951, United States) Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954, Austria) Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963, United Kingdom) Adam Gopnik (born 1956, United States) Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002, United States)

Muhammad Loutfi Goumah (1886–1953, Egypt) Paul Graham (born 1964, Weymouth, England) Clement Greenberg (born 1909, United States) A. C. Grayling (born 1949, United Kingdom) Gordon Grice (born 1965, United States

H

Carla Harryman (born 1952, California) William Hazlitt (1778–1830, England) Saeko Himuro (1957–2008, Japan) Fumi Hirano (born 1955, Japan)

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011, United Kingdom) Hugh Hood (1928–2000, Canada) Langston Hughes (1902–1967, United States) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859, England)

I

• Shigesato Itoi (born 1948, Japan)

J

Michael Johns (born 1964, United States) Samuel Johnson (1709–1784, England)

K

Steven G. Kellman (born 1947, United States) Frank Kermode (born 1919, United Kingdom) Tracy Kidder (born 1945, United States) Chuck Klosterman (born 1972, United States)

Rudy Kousbroek (1929–2010, Netherlands) Hans Krieger (born 1933, Germany) Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981, Croatia)

L

Tomislav Ladan (born 1932, Serbia) Laila Lalami (born 1968, Morocco) Charles Lamb (1775–1834, England) Shankar Lamichhane, (Nepal) Corinne Lee (United States) Albert Leung (born 1961, Hong Kong)

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963, Ireland) Alan Lightman (born 1948, United States) Tim Lilburn (born 1950, Canada) Xun Lu (1881–1936, China) Li Ao (born 1935, China, Taiwan)

M

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgium) Norman Mailer (1923–2007, United States) Jorge Majfud (born 1969, Uruguay) Nathan McCall (born 1955, United States) Mary McCarthy (1912–1989, United States) Tim McKay (born 1947, United States)

Louis Menand (born 1952, United States) H. L. Mencken (1880–1956, United States) Arthur Miller (1915–2005, United States) Pankaj Mishra (born 1969, India) Donald Grant Mitchell (1822–1908, United States) Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592, France)

N

V. S. Naipaul (born 1932, Trinidad and Tobago) Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962, Japan) Nakane Kōtei(1839–1913, Japan)

Virgil Nemoianu (born 1940, Romania) Kathleen Norris (poet) (born 1947, United States)

O

Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938, United States)

George Orwell (1903–1950, United Kingdom)

P

Borislav Pekić (1930–1992, Serbia) Noel Perrin (1927–2004, United States) Sam Pickering (born 1941, United States) Mestrius Plutarch (46–127, Boeotia, Ancient Greece) Katherine Ann Porter (1890–1980, United States)

Kevin Prufer (born 1969, United States) Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, United States)

Q

• Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859, England)

R

Indra Bahadur Rai (born 1927, India) Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1985, United States) Tjalie Robinson (1911–1974, Netherlands) Richard Rodriguez (born 1944, United States) Arundhati Roy (born 1961, India)

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970, United Kingdom) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1908–1974, India)

S

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963, India) Edward Said (1935–2003, Palestine) John Ralston Saul (born 1947, Canada) Dan Schneider (born 1965, United States) Robert Schumann (1810–1856, Germany) David Sedaris (born 1956, United States) Rafael Calvo Serer (1916–1988, Spain) George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950, Ireland)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822, England) Clay Shirky (born 1964,[1] United States) Simeon Simev (born 1949, Republic of Macedonia) Jean Edward Smith (born 1932, United States) Walid Soliman (born 1975, Tunisia) Rebecca Solnit (born 1961, United States) Susan Sontag (1933–2004, United States) Dejan Stojanović (born 1959, Serbia) Lytton Strachey (1880–1932, United Kingdom)

T

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960, Lebanon) Alain Tasso (1962, Lebanon) Vijay Tendulkar (1928–2008, India) Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910, Russia)

Lionel Trilling (1905–1975, United States) George W. S. Trow (1943–2006, United States)

V

Andrew Vachss (born 1942, United States) Gore Vidal (born 1925, United States)

François de Voltaire (1697–1778, France)

W

Richard Wagner (1813–1883, Germany) David Foster Wallace (1962–2008, United States) Rebecca West (1892–1983, United Kingdom) E. B. White (1899–1985, United States)

Oscar Wilde (1852–1900, Ireland) Tom Wolfe (born 1931, United States) Virginia Woolf (1882–1941, United Kingdom)

Y

• Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987, France)

See also

• List of writers

References