essayist
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Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
They were encouraged by Pavel Pavlovich Muratov, a Russian art historian and prolific essayist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The author is an essayist and native Angeleno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
What the French essayist offers us “shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
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
“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
The essayists recall connections they made while backpacking through Asia, working on cruise ships, riding in a Paris taxi or traveling in ancestral homelands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
Several essayists from the series note that family recipes often come with scant direction.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
PEN America is made up of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights and publishers.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 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
