Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

male, deceased (1966)
Army Officer, British Military, Writer-illustrator, Protestant converts to Catholicism, World War II, Traditionalist Catholic writer…diaries
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 - April 10 1966) was a British writer, best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as...
Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

female, deceased (1977)
Erotica writer, writer, Women diarist, little birds, female erotica writer, Women writer…diaries
Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published j...
John Evelyn

John Evelyn

male, deceased (1706)
Wotton, Evelyn Tables, Wotton, Surrey, padua, Balliol College, Oxford, English Civil War…diaries
John Evelyn was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the...

Beatrice Sparks

female, 91 years old
Mormon, diaries, drug overdose, Latter-day Saint writer, AIDS, From Idaho
Beatrice Mathews Sparks (born January 15, 1918 in Goldburg, Idaho) is a psychologist and Mormon youth counselor who is known for producing books...
Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum

female, deceased (1943)
English, diaries, Jewish, hilversum, classical literature, The Netherlands in World War II
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands-November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose...
Wilford Woodruff

Wilford Woodruff

male, deceased (1898)
President of the Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Zion's Camp participant, American, Member of the Utah Territorial Legislature, Mormon…diaries
Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807 - September 2, 1898) was the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from 1889...
Hester Thrale

Hester Thrale

female, deceased (1821)
Welsh women writer, Women diarist, John Salusbury, Salons, Women writer, Caernarvonshire…diaries
Hester Lynch Thrale (16 January 1741[NS]–2 May 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are al...
Henry Channon

Henry Channon

male, deceased (1958)
Sir Henry "Chips" Channon, The Winslow Boy, English, Diarist, Guinness family, LGBT politician…diaries
Sir Henry "Chips" Channon was a Conservative politician whose highest office was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Parliamentary...
Rutka Laskier

Rutka Laskier

female, deceased (1943)
Jewish, Holocaust, polish, Diarist, Nazi concentration camp victim, Jewish person…diaries
Rutka Laskier (1929-1943) was a Jewish teenager from Poland who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling four months of her life during the...
Roger Morrice

Roger Morrice

male, deceased (1702)
charles ii, diaries, puritan, stuart, Jacobitism, glorious revolution
Roger Morrice was an English Puritan minister and political journalist. He is most noted for his "Entring Book" which provides a description of...