Example sentences for: essayist

How can you use “essayist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • White novelist Richard Ford and black essayist Stanley Crouch re-enact Huck Finn and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi River and pen their respective reactions: Crouch rejoices that it's no longer anomalous for a black man and a white man to share a boat; but the trip leaves Ford unsettled about his own latent racism.

  • I was a little-known economics essayist.

  • Here, Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, essayist, poet, and friend of Emerson, lived in a cabin from 1845 to 1847, and wrote Walden.

  • His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.

  • Representing the "lack of community" position were essayist Richard Rodriguez and biographer Neal Gabler, writing separately in Sunday's Los Angeles Times "Opinion" section.


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