essayist

Whilst looking for an academic mentor in Oxford, Geisel was paired with the Scottish essayist Alexander Carlisle.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Perhaps the most eloquent is the naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau, who wrote “man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

It pounced upon the coincidence that James Joyce, the Dada poet and essayist Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich in 1917.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Even when Didion moved away from film reviews to become one of the preeminent essayists of her generation, she clung to Wayne as an avatar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

Several essayists have described common characteristics of the “Star Wars” generation in terms of its existence at a technological turning point.

From Salon ● May 25, 2024

“Palestine’s poets, scholars, novelists and journalists and essayists have risked everything, including their lives and the lives of their families, to share their words with the world,” the letter reads in part.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

“It should not be this hard, am I right?” asked one of the essayists, S. Kent Butler, a professor of counselor education and school psychology at the University of Central Florida.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker