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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.
The high demand for the essays led to their publication in a more permanent form. On January 1, 1788, the New York publishing firm J. & A. McLean announced that they would publish the first 36 essays as a bound volume; that volume was released on March 22, 1788, and was titled The Federalist Volume 1. [1]
James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels . [ 1 ]
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
The most famous of these early essays is "The Londoner", in which Lamb famously derides the contemporary fascination with nature and the countryside. In another well-known Reflector essay of 1811, he deemed William Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his ...
For multiple author collections, see Category:Essay anthologies. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ...
The first significant publications in the United States were Doubleday's A Collection of Essays by George Orwell from 1954, 1956's The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Penguin's Selected Essays in 1957; re-released in 1962 with the title Inside the Whale and Other Essays and in abridged form as ...
Jerry Fodor, The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, 1983; John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, 1983; Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief, 1983; Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism, 1984