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Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
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Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
—Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025
In 2019, essayist Sarah Chihaya had a nervous breakdown that coincided with a bout of the titular anxiety disorder, which causes someone to have an intense and irrational fear of books and writing.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
The novelist and essayist Dara Horn, for instance, has asserted that any Anne Frank exhibition inevitably cheapens and commercializes the girl’s memory, turning her into a symbol of easy uplift.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
—Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025
In 2019, essayist Sarah Chihaya had a nervous breakdown that coincided with a bout of the titular anxiety disorder, which causes someone to have an intense and irrational fear of books and writing.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
The novelist and essayist Dara Horn, for instance, has asserted that any Anne Frank exhibition inevitably cheapens and commercializes the girl’s memory, turning her into a symbol of easy uplift.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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