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Essayists

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

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