| Since the '60s Lee has been a pillar of Canadian literature as an editor, essayist and poet. |
| By the late 1960s she had acquired a strong reputation as an essayist and a novelist. |
| As an essayist, he sets himself apart from rigidly academic criticism and theory and relies on a variety of unconventional references. |
| If there's a literary precursor, it's the English 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne. |
| He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions and the ebullience of his wit. |
| Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian. |
