essayist
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But, as the radical essayist Thomas Paine warned, “America is above your reach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
Could the same be said of a disingenuous essayist?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
The musician was also known as an acclaimed essayist and poet, with an irrepressible sense of humour.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
“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
In the ’90s, he held regular gatherings at his Angelino Heights home where community activists like the late Levi Kingston would cross-pollinate with emerging young essayists such as Lynell George and Rubén Martínez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 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
