Joan Didion

Joan Didion

female, 75 years old
University of California, Berkeley alumni, national review, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, New Journalism, Political Fictions…Essayist
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to "The New...
Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

male, deceased (1592)
Maire de bordeaux, Essais, French, Renaissance, Essayist, born near bordeaux
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (February 28 1533-September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance....
Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

male, 75 years old
Fellowship of Southern Writer, From Louisville, Kentucky, cultural critic, Kentucky writer, short stories, Man of Letters…Essayist
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He...
Herman Melville

Herman Melville

male, deceased (1891) (bronx, New York, United States)
American, Travel writer, poet, novelist, Essayist, moby-dick
Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were...
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
cleric, satirist, Anglo-irish, Christian, Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, pamphleteer…Essayist
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

male, deceased (1922)
oeuvres complètes 10 Volumes, correspondence générale, contre sainte- beuve, jean santeuil, pastiches et mélanges, sésame et le lys…Essayist
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.
John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
blind, Christian heresy, from the City of London, Sonneteers, Old Pauline, New Latin author…Essayist
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...
E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

male, deceased (1970)
Old Tonbridgian, 20th-century, Humanist, British, humanistic, maurice…Essayist
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ir...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Short story writer, Romanticism, Horror writer, American, Detective fiction…Essayist
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...