Famous essayists
person who writes essays
976 people
Rachel Carson
1907
– 1964
· Age 56
Deceased
Margaret Atwood
1939
· Age 86
Alive
Fernando Pessoa
1888
– 1935
· Age 47
Deceased
Maria Montessori
1870
– 1952
· Age 81
Deceased
Kenzaburō Ōe
1935
– 2023
· Age 88
Deceased
Thomas Robert Malthus
1766
– 1834
· Age 68
Deceased
Chinua Achebe
1930
– 2013
· Age 82
Deceased
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
1940
· Age 85
Alive
Louise Glück
1943
– 2023
· Age 80
Deceased
Patrick Modiano
1945
· Age 80
Alive
Stanisław Lem
1921
– 2006
· Age 84
Deceased
Robert A. Heinlein
1907
– 1988
· Age 80
Deceased
Walter Benjamin
1892
– 1940
· Age 48
Deceased
Anthony Bourdain
1956
– 2018
· Age 61
Deceased
Slavoj Žižek
1949
· Age 76
Alive
Aurobindo Ghosh
1872
– 1950
· Age 78
Deceased
José Martí
1853
– 1895
· Age 42
Deceased
Camilo José Cela
1916
– 2002
· Age 85
Deceased
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
1768
– 1848
· Age 79
Deceased
Pär Lagerkvist
1891
– 1974
· Age 83
Deceased
W. H. Auden
1907
– 1973
· Age 66
Deceased
Philip K. Dick
1928
– 1982
· Age 53
Deceased
Arundhati Roy
1961
· Age 64
Alive
Joan Fuster Ortells
1922
– 1992
· Age 69
Deceased
Jaroslav Seifert
1901
– 1986
· Age 84
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11774202