essayist

“The author sees things with clarity,” says Xu Zhiyuan, an influential young Chinese essayist.

There is hardly an essayist of the present day in this country whose work seems better deserving of preservation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, a noted American essayist, poet, and speculative philosopher.

The essayist was twice married, and died on September 18, 1830.

Great as Hazlitt was as a miscellaneous and Montaignesque essayist, he was greater as a literary critic.

An essayist, on the other hand, starts with an idea and clothes it.