History'S Greatest Essayists 💚

Some of the most famous literary works are essays, written by great authors and writers. Essays span a variety of genres, including comedy, non-fiction, history, and current events. Some essays are published as a stand-alone piece in a magazine, while others are grouped into collections. Who are the best essayists of all time?The essayists on this list come from a variety of backgrounds and time periods in history. Some are still currently writing. Its no wonder that essays remain a popular literary format as authors can make a point more directly while still following a specific format, allowing the writer to get their point across, or tell their story more quickly.This list features the best essayists in history, ranked as the best by voters, and including, Virginia Woolf, Geoff Dyer, Ellen Willis, Christopher Hitchens, Nora Ephron, and Zadie Smith. Vote up the best essayists below to see how the essayists you think are great rank!Photo: Metaweb/GNU Free Documentation License...more
0:00 - Intro
0:00:08 - Julian Dumitrascu
0:00:15 - Meghan Daum
0:00:22 - Yukio Mishima
0:00:29 - Henry James
0:00:36 - William H. Gass
0:00:44 - Jacques Barzun
0:00:51 - Victor Hugo
0:00:58 - Ralph Ellison
0:01:05 - Alice Walker
0:01:12 - George Saunders
0:01:19 - Zadie Smith
0:01:26 - Giacomo Leopardi
0:01:33 - Evelyn Waugh
0:01:40 - Monteiro Lobato
0:01:47 - Clive James
0:01:54 - Graham Greene
0:02:01 - Vclav Havel
0:02:08 - Annie Dillard
0:02:15 - E. B. White
0:02:22 - David Sedaris
0:02:29 - Joseph Addison
0:02:36 - Jonathan Swift
0:02:43 - John Updike
0:02:50 - Aldous Huxley
0:02:57 - Matthew Arnold
0:03:04 - Benjamin Franklin
0:03:11 - Arthur Schopenhauer
0:03:18 - Leo Tolstoy
0:03:25 - Charles Lamb
0:03:32 - William Hazlitt
0:03:39 - Susan Sontag
0:03:46 - T. S. Eliot
0:03:53 - David Foster Wallace
0:04:00 - Jorge Luis Borges
0:04:07 - C. S. Lewis
0:04:14 - David Hume
0:04:21 - Virginia Woolf
0:04:28 - Bertrand Russell
0:04:35 - Joan Didion
0:04:42 - Flannery O'Connor
0:04:49 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
0:04:56 - G. K. Chesterton
0:05:03 - Francis Bacon
0:05:10 - Christopher Hitchens
0:05:17 - Mark Twain
0:05:24 - James Baldwin
0:05:31 - Samuel Johnson
0:05:38 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
0:05:45 - Michel de Montaigne
0:05:52 - George Orwell




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