List of essayists

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The following is an abbreviated list of essayists, arranged alphabetically by last name (years of birth and death, if applicable, and country of birth, are noted in parentheses).

Note: An individual's country of birth is not always indicative of his or her nationality.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995, United Kingdom)
• Martin Amis (b. 1949, United Kingdom)
• Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888, United Kingdom)
• Anastasia Ashman (b. 1964, United States)
• Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992, Russia)
• W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973, b. United Kingdom)

B

• Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626, England)
• John Perry Barlow (b. 1947, United States)
• Julian Barnes (b. 1946, United Kingdom)
• Jacques Barzun (b. 1907, France)
• Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867, France)
• Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953, United Kingdom)
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986, Argentina)
• Alain de Botton (b. 1969, Switzerland)
• William Brandon (1914 – 2002, United States)
• Alfred Brendel (b. 1931, Czechoslovakia)
• Christopher Buckley (b. 1952, United States)
• Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993, United Kingdom)
• Richard de Bury (1287 – 1345, England)

C

• Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985, Italy)
• Albert Camus (1913 – 1960, Algeria)
• Rafael Cansinos Assens (1882-1964, Spain)
• John Carey (b. 1934, United Kingdom)
• Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900 – 1978, Austria)
• G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936, United Kingdom)
• William Cobbett (1763 – 1835, Great Britain)
• Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832, Great Britain)
• Cyril Connolly (1903 – 1974, United Kingdom)

D

• Mike Daisey (b. 1973, United States)
• Joan Didion (b. 1934, United States)
• Annie Dillard
• Denis Donoghue (b. 1920, Ireland)
• John Dryden (1631 – 1700, England)

E

• Umberto Eco (b. 1932, Italy)
• T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965, United States)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882, United States)
• Joseph Epstein (b. 1937, United States)
• Filip Erceg (b. 1979, Croatia)

F

• Richard Farmer (1735 – 1797, England)
• Ian Frazier (b. 1951, United States)
• Robert Fulghum (b.1937, United States)
• Joan Fuster (1922 – 1992, Catalan Countries)

G

• Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963, United Kingdom)
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002, United States)
• Paul Graham (b. 1964, United States)

H

• William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830, England)
• Fumi Hirano (b. 1955, Japan)
• Christopher Hitchens (b. 1949, United Kingdom)
• Hugh Hood (1928 – 2000, Canada)
• Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859, England)

J

• Michael Johns (b. 1964, United States)
• Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784, England)
• Dario de Judicibus (b. 1960, Italy)
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967, United states)

K

• Frank Kermode (b. 1919, United Kingdom)
• Chuck Klosterman (b. 1972, United States)
• Miroslav Krleza (1893 – 1981, Croatia)

L

• Tomislav Ladan (b. 1932, Serbia)
• Laila Lalami (b. 1968, Morocco)
• Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834, England)
• C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963, Ireland)
• Shankar Lamichhane, Nepal

M

• Norman Mailer (b. 1923, United States)
• Jorge Majfud (b. 1969, Uruguay)
• Nathan McCall (b. 1955, United States)
• Mary McCarthy (1912 – 1989, United States)
• Tim McKay (b. 1947, United States)
• H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956, United States)
• Arthur Miller (1915 – 2005, United States)
• Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969, India)
• Donald Grant Mitchell (1822 – 1908, United States)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592, France)

N

• V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932, Trinidad and Tobago)
• Virgil Nemoianu (b. 1940, Romania)

O

• Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938, United States)
• George Orwell, (1903 – 1950, United Kingdom)

P

• Noel Perrin (1927-2004, United States}
• Sam Pickering (b. 1941, United States)
• Mestrius Plutarch (46 – 127, Boeotia, Ancient Greece)
• Katherine Ann Porter (1890 – 1980, United States)
• Kevin Prufer (b. 1969, United States)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849, United States)

Q

• Thomas de Quincey (1785 – 1859, England)

R

• Kenneth Rexroth (1905 – 1985, United States)
• Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944, United States)
• Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970, United Kingdom)

S

• Edward Said (1935 – 2003, Palestine)
• John Ralston Saul (b. 1947, Canada)
• Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856, Germany)
• David Sedaris (b. 1956, United States)
• Rafael Calvo Serer (1916 - 1988, Spain)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950, Ireland)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822, England)
• Clay Shirky (b. ???, United States)
• Jean Edward Smith (b. 1932, United States)
• Walid Soliman (b. 1975, Tunisia)
• Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004, United States)
• Lytton Strachey (1880 – 1932, United Kingdom)

T

• Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862, United States)
• Lionel Trilling (1905 – 1975, United States)

V

• Andrew Vachss (b. 1942, United States)
• Gore Vidal (b. 1925, United States)
• François de Voltaire (1697 – 1778, France)

W

• Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883, Germany)
• Rebecca West (1892 – 1983, United Kingdom)
• E. B. White (1899 – 1985, United States)
• Tom Wolfe (b. 1931, United States)
• Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941, United Kingdom)

See also

• List of writers