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This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay-writing. Note: Birthplaces (as listed) do not always indicate nationality. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 2022, he completed a deal to take over social platform X (formerly Twitter) and became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Musk owns the top spot on X with his 199.1 million followers ...
Americans are asked, without prompting, to say which man and woman "living today in any part of the world" they admire the most. [2] [3] The results of the poll were published as a top ten list. In most years, the most admired man was the incumbent president of the United States, and the most admired woman was the first lady. [4]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
They combined the results from the previous polls with a new preliminary poll to determine the 18 most admired people. [1] The 1999 final poll produced an ordered list of 18 people, 12 of whom were males and 12 of whom were American citizens; the highest ranked non-American and non-male was (Saint) Mother Teresa , at #1.
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.
Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus 's An Essay on the Principle of Population are ...
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]