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Though an accomplished essayist, Orwell is best known for 1984 and Animal Farm, his 1945 satire of Stalinist Russia.
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Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2024
Roland Barthes, the French essayist, observed that in every old photograph lurks catastrophe.
—Roger Cohen Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 6 June 2024
His younger brother was novelist and journalist John Gregory Dunne, and his sister-in-law was essayist and critic Joan Didion.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
Translator Michael Hofmann is a poet, essayist, and a previous judge for the International Booker Prize.
—Andrew Limbong, NPR, 21 May 2024
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Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2024
Roland Barthes, the French essayist, observed that in every old photograph lurks catastrophe.
—Roger Cohen Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 6 June 2024
His younger brother was novelist and journalist John Gregory Dunne, and his sister-in-law was essayist and critic Joan Didion.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
Translator Michael Hofmann is a poet, essayist, and a previous judge for the International Booker Prize.
—Andrew Limbong, NPR, 21 May 2024
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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