American male essayists

American author and essayist (1927-1989)

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

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

American science writer

American writer (born 1958)

German–American philosopher

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

American music journalist (born 1942)

novelist, short story writer, academic

American author, speaker and futurist (born 1954)

American philosopher (1935–2017)

American actor

American philosopher (1917–2003)

American political economist (1946–)

American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)

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

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)

American philosopher (1906–1998)

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)

American biblical scholar (born 1955)

American writer, artist, and illustrator (1925–2000)

American novelist, historian and editor (1771-1810)

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

American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)

British-American philosopher and writer

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

American writer (1932–2020)

American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author

American philosopher (1901-1985)

American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

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

American journalist and novelist (1870-1902)

American novelist and poet (1943–2022)

Italian-American writer and professor

Kiowa author and academic (1934–2024)

Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher (1918–2007)

American writer

American science fiction author (1923–2020)

American author and historian of science (born 1954)

Lithuanian American rabbi (1881-1983)

American literary critic, theorist and scholar

American author (born 1956)

American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor (1933–1982)

American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

American writer

American science fiction author

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)

American science fiction writer, journalist, and scientist (1933-2017)

American writer (1910–1970)

American poet, novelist, and essayist (1937–2016)

American writer and military strategist

American writer and historian (1878–1949)

poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914–1965)

American magazine writer, editor, and publisher (1806-1867)

American novelist (1871–1947)

American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

American philosopher (1876–1957)

American poet, essayist and social commentator (1899–1979)

American philosopher (1929–2023)