Famous essayists

person who writes essays

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All Alive Deceased
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

1869 – 1948 · Age 78
Deceased
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910 · Age 82
Deceased
Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

1802 – 1885 · Age 83
Deceased
Voltaire

Voltaire

1694 – 1778 · Age 83
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821 – 1881 · Age 59
Deceased
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

1856 – 1939 · Age 83
Deceased
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941 · Age 80
Deceased
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837 · Age 37
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712 – 1778 · Age 66
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849 · Age 40
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Che Guevara

Che Guevara

1928 – 1967 · Age 39
Deceased
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900 · Age 46
Deceased
George Orwell

George Orwell

1903 – 1950 · Age 46
Deceased
Albert Camus

Albert Camus

1913 – 1960 · Age 46
Deceased
Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

1813 – 1883 · Age 69
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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973 · Age 81
Deceased
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

1905 – 1980 · Age 74
Deceased
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

1858 – 1919 · Age 60
Deceased
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · Age 86
Deceased
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

1871 – 1922 · Age 51
Deceased
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950 · Age 94
Deceased
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970 · Age 97
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Age 71
Deceased
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986 · Age 78
Deceased
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

1821 – 1867 · Age 46
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11774202