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An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. Although, the essay which is written by the essayist is usually shorter and less methological than a formal finished treatise[?].

A representative list of famous essayists:

Matthew Arnold
Hilaire Belloc[?]
William Cobbett
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Hazlitt
Samuel Johnson
Michel de Montaigne
Joyce Carol Oates[?]
Katherine Ann Porter[?]
Bertrand Russell
Lytton Strachey
Voltaire
Rebecca West
E. B. White
Virginia Woolf

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