Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

male, deceased (1626)
tudor, English, scientific method, from WestmInster, Baconian method, methodology…Essayist
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and...
Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

male, deceased (2007) (Manhattan, New York, United States)
pulitzer prize, film director, journalist, creative nonfiction, National Book Award, novelist…Essayist
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magic realism writer…Essayist
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...
William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

male, deceased (1830)
Protestant, George I, From Maidstone, County Antrim, English, tipperary…Essayist
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often...
John Updike

John Updike

male, 77 years old
Pennsylvania writer, Massachusetts writer, Literary critic, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, rabbit…Essayist
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit,...
Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

male, deceased (1881)
Presbyterian, calvinist, Literary critic, Romanticism, Translator, victorian era…Essayist
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly...
James Baldwin

James Baldwin

male, deceased (1987)
James Arthur Baldwin, buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, American expatriate in France, Bisexual, from the United States, Bisexual writer…Essayist
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel "Go Tell It on the...
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

male, deceased (2007)
United States Army soldier, Slaughterhouse-Five, American military personnel of World War II, atheist, Short story writer, World War II prisoner of war…Essayist
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 - April 11 2007) (pronounced) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and...
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

male, deceased (1963) (Kamuela, Hawaii, United States)
Humanist, Throat cancer death, poet, American, parapsychology, philosophical…Essayist
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family....
George Eliot

George Eliot

female, deceased (1880)
Mary Ann Evans, buried at Highgate Cemetery, English women writer, zionist, Women novelist, Mary Anne Evans…Essayist
Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her...