Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith

male, deceased (1946)
Orlando, autobiography, quaker, British, New Jersey writer, Essayist
Logan Pearsall Smith was an American essayist and critic. Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey and settled in London. He was known for his...
Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

male, deceased (1995)
University College London, Old Blundellian, English, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Essayist, social injustice
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909, London – July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of...
George Santayana

George Santayana

male, deceased (1952)
poet, novelist, Harvard University alumni, philosopher, spanish, Essayist
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid - September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish...
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski

male, 64 years old
novelist, Essayist, poet, The University of Houston Creative Writing Program, Lwow, From Lviv
Adam Zagajewski (b. 21 June 1945 in Lwów, Soviet Union (now Lviv, Ukraine)) is a Polish poet, novelist, and essayist. He had lived in Paris since 1...
Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara

male, deceased (1963)
Sami Rosenstock a.k.a. Samuel Rosenstock, hobby horse, Jewish person, French Resistance member, French, Essayist
Tristan Tzara ("Sami Rosenstock a.k.a. Samuel Rosenstock") (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963) was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the...
Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

male, deceased (1936)
writer, basque, philosopher, agnostic, Playwright, novelist…Essayist
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864-December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
Paul Auster

Paul Auster

male, 62 years old
New York writer, American, The New York Trilogy, novelist, leviathan, Essayist
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is a Brooklyn-based author. He is probably most famous for his collection, The New...
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould

male, deceased (2002)
Evolutionary biologist, writer, scientist, Jewish American, Books by Stephen Jay Gould, Essayist
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also...
Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

female, 60 years old
Anti-catholicism, New York Times, Jewish person, Radcliffe College alumni, Glascock Prize winner, American…Essayist
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 in New York City) is an American feminist writer.
Rebecca West

Rebecca West

female, deceased (1983)
Women travel writer, British women writer, George Watson's College, The Bookman, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, From London…Essayist
Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892-March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to "Cicily") Isabel Fairfield, was a...