essayist
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The author is a Los Angeles–based novelist and essayist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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
Whilst looking for an academic mentor in Oxford, Geisel was paired with the Scottish essayist Alexander Carlisle.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
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
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
Soon after, wannabe authoritarians attack the comedians, essayists, playwrights and poets.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
And his influences included writers who worked in that tradition: writers and essayists such as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jorge Luis Borges and Euclides Da Cunha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
“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
Each year, we invite essayists to forward their work to us after they’ve submitted their thoughts on money, work, social class and related matters as part of their college applications.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 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
