Essayist
22 celebrities known for essayist.
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