Essayist

An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. Although, the essay which is written by the essayist is usually shorter and less methological than a formal finished treatise.

A representative list of famous essayists:

• Matthew Arnold
• Hilaire Belloc
• William Cobbett
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• William Hazlitt
• Hugh Hood
• Samuel Johnson
• Michel de Montaigne
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Katherine Ann Porter
• Bertrand Russell
• Lytton Strachey
• Voltaire
• Rebecca West
• E. B. White
• Virginia Woolf

See also: Lists of authors