essayist
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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
“Sure you’re romantic about American history,” wrote DeVoto, a historian and essayist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a "Gilded Rococo Nightmare".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Waldie, essayist and cultural historian, is the author of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place,” among other books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
“Are you really? Well, you know what they say—God will not look you over for medals or diplomas, but for scars. That’s Elbert Hubbard, an American essayist, if you’re interested.”
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Several essayists have described common characteristics of the “Star Wars” generation in terms of its existence at a technological turning point.
From Salon ● May 25, 2024
“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
In the ’90s, he held regular gatherings at his Angelino Heights home where community activists like the late Levi Kingston would cross-pollinate with emerging young essayists such as Lynell George and Rubén Martínez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
“It should not be this hard, am I right?” asked one of the essayists, S. Kent Butler, a professor of counselor education and school psychology at the University of Central Florida.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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
