essayist
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They were encouraged by Pavel Pavlovich Muratov, a Russian art historian and prolific essayist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
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
The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
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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
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
Although plans to accept electronic submissions are in the works, so far the project has been decidedly analog, starting with snail mail correspondence between potential essayists and a cadre of Hamilton student volunteers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
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
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