Which celebrities worked as a(n) Essayist?

Celebrities known as a(n) Essayist include: Victor Hugo, Ernesto Guevara, Andrew Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, Richard Wagner.

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24 celebrities known for essayist.

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Victor Hugo

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician

Born:February 26, 1802

Died:May 22, 1885

Ernesto Guevara

Argentine Marxist revolutionary

Born:June 14, 1928

Died:October 9, 1967

Andrew Sullivan

English-American journalist, writer, blogger

Born:August 10, 1963

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and literary critic

Born:January 19, 1809

Died:October 7, 1849

Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer

Born:January 25, 1882

Died:March 28, 1941

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

Born:October 27, 1858

Died:January 6, 1919

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis

Born:May 6, 1856

Died:September 23, 1939

Richard Wagner

German composer

Born:May 22, 1813

Died:February 13, 1883

Jack London

American author, journalist and social activist

Born:January 12, 1876

Died:November 22, 1916

Helen Keller

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar

Born:June 27, 1880

Died:June 1, 1968

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet

Born:November 13, 1850

Died:December 3, 1894

Kurt Vonnegut

American author

Born:November 11, 1922

Died:April 11, 2007

Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist

Born:October 17, 1915

Died:February 10, 2005

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer

Born:September 18, 1709

Died:December 13, 1784

Mary Shelley

English writer

Born:August 30, 1797

Died:February 1, 1851

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born:September 9, 1828

Died:November 20, 1910

Michael Chabon

American novelist, short story writer, essayist

Born:May 24, 1963

Anthony Bourdain

American chef and television personality

Born:June 25, 1956

Died:June 8, 2018

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist

Born:October 2, 1869

Died:January 30, 1948

George Orwell

British writer and journalist

Born:June 25, 1903

Died:January 21, 1950

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

Born:October 16, 1854

Died:November 30, 1900

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist

Born:July 26, 1856

Died:November 2, 1950

Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

Born:June 19, 1964

Amos Oz

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual

Born:May 4, 1939

Died:December 28, 2018

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