Famous essayists
person who writes essays
976 people
André Gide
1869
– 1951
· Age 81
Deceased
Romain Rolland
1866
– 1944
· Age 78
Deceased
Günter Grass
1927
– 2015
· Age 87
Deceased
Richard Dawkins
1941
· Age 84
Alive
George Eliot
1819
– 1880
· Age 61
Deceased
José Saramago
1922
– 2010
· Age 87
Deceased
Orhan Pamuk
1952
· Age 73
Alive
Milton Friedman
1912
– 2006
· Age 94
Deceased
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862
– 1949
· Age 86
Deceased
Doris Lessing
1919
– 2013
· Age 94
Deceased
Samuel Johnson
1709
– 1784
· Age 75
Deceased
Adam Mickiewicz
1798
– 1855
· Age 56
Deceased
C. S. Lewis
1898
– 1963
· Age 64
Deceased
Mary Shelley
1797
– 1851
· Age 53
Deceased
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936
– 2025
· Age 89
Deceased
Herman Melville
1819
– 1891
· Age 72
Deceased
Joseph Conrad
1857
– 1924
· Age 66
Deceased
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759
– 1797
· Age 38
Deceased
Haruki Murakami
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Lu Xun
1881
– 1936
· Age 55
Deceased
Salman Rushdie
1947
· Age 78
Alive
Herta Müller
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Stefan Zweig
1881
– 1942
· Age 60
Deceased
Sully Prudhomme
1839
– 1907
· Age 68
Deceased
Ayn Rand
1905
– 1982
· Age 77
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11774202