Category:20th-century American essayists
Pages in category "20th-century American essayists"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 569 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Edward Abbey
- Kathy Acker
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- Joel Agee
- Jonis Agee
- Marjorie Agosín
- Will Aitken
- Michel Alaux
- Peter S. Albin
- Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
- Jonathan Ames
- John Bertram Andrews
- Kevin Andrews (writer)
- Roger Angell
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Hannah Arendt
- Red Jordan Arobateau
- Robert Arp
- Newton Arvin
- Isaac Asimov
- Louis Auchincloss
- W. H. Auden
- Robert Audi
- Lawrence Auster
- Paul Auster
- Mary Hunter Austin
B
- Eve Babitz
- Andrew Bacevich
- Charles H. Baker Jr.
- James Baldwin
- Poe Ballantine
- Amiri Baraka
- Helen Barolini
- Steven Barthelme
- Philip Baruth
- Jon Barwise
- Rick Bass
- Charles Baxter (author)
- Peter S. Beagle
- Frederick R. Bechdolt
- Louis Begley
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Sheila Bender
- Bruce Benderson
- Helen Bevington
- Ann Birstein
- John Peale Bishop
- Diann Blakely
- Norbert Blei
- James Blish
- Michael Bloomberg
- Bonnie Bluh
- Carol Bly
- Paul Boghossian
- Chris Bohjalian
- Marita Bonner
- Stephen Bonsal
- George Boolos
- Agnes Boulton
- Anthony Bourdain
- Vance Bourjaily
- Randolph Bourne
- Ben Bova
- Charles Bowden
- Robert O. Bowen
- Richard Boyd
- Ray Bradbury
- Scott Bradfield
- Mary Lythgoe Bradford
- Tom Bradley (author)
- Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Christopher Bram
- Irma Brandeis
- William Brandon (author)
- Richard Brandt
- Perry Brass
- Wilmon Brewer
- David O. Brink
- Joseph Brodsky
- Catharine Savage Brosman
- Dorothy Bryant
- Charles Bukowski
- José Antonio Burciaga
- Jean Burden
- Tyler Burge
- June Burn
- John Burroughs
- Robert A. Burton
- Candace Bushnell
- Gary Buslik
- Judith Butler
C
- Adam Cadre
- John Cage
- Erskine Caldwell
- Vera Călin
- Eleanor Cameron
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Cornelia James Cannon
- Jay Cantor
- Milič Čapek
- Hazel Carby
- Rudolf Carnap
- Harriet Frances Carpenter
- Noël Carroll
- Héctor-Neri Castañeda
- Ana Castillo
- Eileen Chang
- Gary Chartier
- John Vance Cheney
- Kelly Cherry
- Roy Childs
- Noam Chomsky
- Robert Chrisman
- Harry Hayden Clark
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Andrei Codrescu
- Vine Colby
- Henry Steele Commager
- Evan S. Connell
- Frank Conroy (author)
- Anna J. Cooper
- Daniel Cory
- Greg Costikyan
- Henry Cowell
- William Craig (philosopher)
- Stanley Crawford
- Harry Crews
- Richard Critchfield
- Ernest Howard Crosby
- Stanley Crouch
- James Crumley
- Gil Cuadros
- Marion Vera Cuthbert
D
- Edward Dahlberg
- Jon-Henri Damski
- Jack Dann
- Alice Elliott Dark
- Doris Davenport (poet)
- Guy Davenport
- Donald Davidson (poet)
- Angela Davis
- Rebecca Harding Davis
- Greg Dawes
- Clarence Day
- Benjamin De Casseres
- Don DeLillo
- Tory Dent
- Bernard DeVoto
- W. S. Di Piero
- Philip K. Dick
- George Dickie (philosopher)
- Charles Dickinson (author)
- Joan Didion
- Annie Dillard
- Jim Dodge
- Fred Donner
- Michael Dorris
- Theodore Dreiser
- Will Allen Dromgoole
- F. J. Duarte
- Andre Dubus
- Mahealani Dudoit
- David James Duncan
E
- John Earman
- Fernanda Eberstadt
- Mary Eberstadt
- Margaret Elizabeth Egan
- Krafft Arnold Ehricke
- Bart D. Ehrman
- Eric Ehrmann
- Loren Eiseley
- T. S. Eliot
- Vernard Eller
- Edward S. Ellis
- Ralph Ellison
- Mary Ellmann
- James Ellroy
- Yahiya Emerick
- Nora Ephron
- Leslie Epstein
- Steve Erickson
- John Erskine (educator)
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Eva Cockcroft
- Mari Evans
- Frederick Exley