essayist

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“Sure you’re romantic about American history,” wrote DeVoto, a historian and essayist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

According to his one-time adviser, the veteran essayist and confidant of presidents Alain Minc, Macron "must now go down as the worst president of the Fifth Republic".

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

Waldie, essayist and cultural historian, is the author of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place,” among other books.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

It’s as if everyone’s a budding essayist on psychology, which makes a situation that trades on recklessness and delusion harder to swallow.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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