Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman

male, 56 years old
Princeton University faculty, Trade Economist, Long-Term Capital Management, pundits, new economy, fixed exchange rate…Essayist
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at...

John Brown

male, deceased (1766)
From Northumberland, Bartholomew Fair, honour, Essayist, satirist, garrick
John Brown (November 5, 1715 - 1766), English divine and author, was born at Rothbury, Northumberland. His father, a descendant of the Browns of...
Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

male, 50 years old
Philadelphia writer, Webster Groves, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, from St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri writer, From Manhattan…Essayist
Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in...
William Styron

William Styron

male, deceased (2006)
Darkness Visible, McGraw Hill Publishers, Set This House On Fire, A Tidewater Morning, Virginia writer, Christchurch School…Essayist
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11 1925 - November 1 2006) was an eminent American novelist and essayist. Before the publication of his memoir...
June Jordan

June Jordan

female, deceased (2002)
Barnard College alumni, Harlem, political activist, from the United States, Bisexual, LGBT writer…Essayist
June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York,...
Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

male, deceased (1935)
heteronyms, agnostic, The Western Canon, From Lisbon, Portuguese, pessoa…Essayist
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a poet and writer. Cri...
Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby

male, 52 years old
Redhill, Surrey, From Maidenhead, high fidelity, fever pitch, About A Boy, From Surrey…Essayist
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels "High Fidelity"...
E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

male, deceased (1962)
Sonneteers, Modernist poetry in English, love, poet, American poet, Playwright…Essayist
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright....
Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey

male, deceased (1989)
environmentalist, environmental, Political writer, philosopher, Essayist, American
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and...
Paul Graham

Paul Graham

male, 45 years old
Y Combinator, entrepreneur, Lisp Programmer, Viaweb, programming language creator, good writer…Essayist
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common...