20th-century American essayists

American actor

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)

American philosopher

American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)

American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist (1903–1987)

priest and author (1915–1968)

American writer

American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist (1890–1980)

American author (1899–1985)

American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)

American author, poet and essayist

American novelist and essayist (born 1943)

American writer (1928–2020)

American author and essayist (1927-1989)

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)

American journalist (1957-)

Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist (born 1948)

American anarchist writer and feminist

American writer (1918–2007)

American science writer

American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)

German–American philosopher

American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)

African-American writer (1934–2014)

novelist, short story writer, academic

American author, speaker and futurist (born 1954)

American philosopher (1935–2017)

American actor

American philosopher

American author

American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)

American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)

American novelist, essayist, poet

American political economist (1946–)

American philosopher (1906–1998)

American atheist activist (1919–1995)

American biblical scholar (born 1955)

American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)

American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)

Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language (1880-1957)

British-American philosopher and writer

American/Canadian author

American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author

American architecture theorist, critic and landscape architect (1939–2019)

American sociologist (1840–1910)

American writer (1932–2020)

American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

American philosopher (1901-1985)

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)

American journalist and novelist (1870-1902)

Kiowa author and academic (1934–2024)

American ecologist (1915–2003)

American novelist and poet (1943–2022)

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher (1918–2007)

American literary critic, theorist and scholar