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