Margaret Atwood has worn many literary hats novelist, poet, essayist, critic, historian but now she has added another one: orator.
My biggest by farbesides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humorwas Robert Benchley, a humor essayist.
He is also a monthly essayist for PTI magazine, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, a political analyst for FOX News and a weekly panelist on Inside .
Maria Rodale: The Big Secret No One Tells You by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger As a former colleague of mine used to say--and I mean this in the kindest way...
June 13, 2013 - The Huffington Post
Anne Fadiman in Calcutta Telegraph Fadiman writes, "The familiar essayist didn't speak to the millions; he spoke to one reader, as if the two of them were sitting side by side in front of a crackling fire with their cravats loosened, their favourite stimulants at hand, and a long...
Philip Roth in EfluxMedia News Another Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist, Philip Roth, said Updike was "our time's greatest man of letters, as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short story writer."