Famous essayists
person who writes essays
976 people
Roland Barthes
1915
– 1980
· Age 64
Deceased
Louis Aragon
1897
– 1982
· Age 85
Deceased
E. M. Forster
1879
– 1970
· Age 91
Deceased
Jerome K. Jerome
1859
– 1927
· Age 68
Deceased
Michel Houellebecq
1956
· Age 70
Alive
George Santayana
1863
– 1952
· Age 88
Deceased
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1938
– 2025
· Age 87
Deceased
Gore Vidal
1925
– 2012
· Age 86
Deceased
Tristan Tzara
1896
– 1963
· Age 67
Deceased
Heinrich Mann
1871
– 1950
· Age 78
Deceased
Oliver Goldsmith
1728
– 1774
· Age 45
Deceased
Annie Besant
1847
– 1933
· Age 85
Deceased
Christopher Hitchens
1949
– 2011
· Age 62
Deceased
Germaine Greer
1939
· Age 87
Alive
Jean de La Bruyère
1645
– 1696
· Age 50
Deceased
A. A. Milne
1882
– 1956
· Age 74
Deceased
James Baldwin
1924
– 1987
· Age 63
Deceased
Theodore Dreiser
1871
– 1945
· Age 74
Deceased
William S. Burroughs
1914
– 1997
· Age 83
Deceased
Paul Auster
1947
– 2024
· Age 77
Deceased
Daniel Kahneman
1934
– 2024
· Age 90
Deceased
André Maurois
1885
– 1967
· Age 82
Deceased
Gloria Steinem
1934
· Age 91
Alive
Thomas Pynchon
1937
· Age 88
Alive
Harry Mulisch
1927
– 2010
· Age 83
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11774202