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But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the 20th century: 1984 and Animal Farm.
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Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
—Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
—Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
—Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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