essayist
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The author is an essayist and native Angeleno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The 24-year-old essayist and stockpicker amassed a $45 billion portfolio, and a cult following on the internet, thanks to his prescient predictions of where AI was headed and which companies were going to benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Whilst looking for an academic mentor in Oxford, Geisel was paired with the Scottish essayist Alexander Carlisle.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Soon after, wannabe authoritarians attack the comedians, essayists, playwrights and poets.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Palestine’s poets, scholars, novelists and journalists and essayists have risked everything, including their lives and the lives of their families, to share their words with the world,” the letter reads in part.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Among the nonfiction writers interviewed were such prominent journalists and essayists as Pete Hamill and Maureen Dowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Each year, we invite essayists to forward their work to us after they’ve submitted their thoughts on money, work, social class and related matters as part of their college applications.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
