Abbey, Edward (1927-1989) US author

Adams, Franklin P. (1881-1960) US journalist

Agate, James (1877-1947) English critic, author

Alexander, Shana (1925-____) US news commentator

Alsop, Jr., Joseph W. (1910-1989) US journalist, author

Amiel, Henri Frederic (1821-1881) Swiss writer

Anderson, Margaret (1886-1973) US editor

Angelou, Maya (1928-____) US actress, author

Anzaldua, Gloria Evangelina (1942-____) US Tejana-Chicana poet

Apple, Jr., R. W. (1934-____) US journalist

Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556) Italian poet, writer, dramatist

Atkinson, Brooks (1894-1984) US drama critic, journalist

Baer, Bugs (1886-1969) US journalist, cartoonist

Baker, Russell (1925-____) US journalist, author, humorist

Baldwin, Christina () US writer

Baldwin, James (1924-1987) US novelist, essayist

Baldwin, Monica (1896-1975) English writer

Ballantyne, Sheila () US writer

Bangs, Lester (1948-1982) US critic, author

Barnes, Clive (1927-____) English journalist, critic, writer

Barr, Amelia (1831-1919) US author, journalist

Barrett, Rona (1936-____) US journalist

Barry, Dave (1947-____) US columnist, humorist

Barthes, Roland (1915-1980) French critic

Bataille, Georges (1897-1962) French librarian, writer

Battelle, Phyllis (1922-____) US journalist

Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986) French writer

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell (1879-1964) English publisher, statesman

Beerbohm, Max (1872-1956) English essayist, caricaturist, parodist

Bell, Clive (1881-1964) English art critic

Benchley, Robert (1889-1945) US humorist

Bengis, Ingrid () US writer

Bennett, James Gordon (1795-1872) Scottish-USA editor

Benson, A. C. (1862-1925) English writer

Bernstein, Carl (1944-____) US journalist, author

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914) US journalist, short-story writer

Billings, Josh (1818-1885) US writer

Bishop, Jim (1907-1987) US author, journalist

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova (1831-1891) Russian author, translator, theosophist

Blessington, Lady Marguerite (1789-1849) English socialite, writer

Bombeck, Erma (1927-1996) US journalist, author, humorist

Boom, Corrie Ten (1892-1983) Dutch evangelist

Borland, Hal (1900-1978) US journalist

Boswell, James (1740-1795) Scottish lawyer, biographer

Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) US photojournalist

Bovee, Christian Nestell (1820-1904) US author, lawyer

Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973) US writer

Brenan, Gerald (1894) English writer

Brinkley, David (1920-____) US broadcast journalist

Brisbane, Arthur (1864-1936) US newspaper editor, writer

Broch, Hermann (1886-1951) German writer

Brookner, Anita (1928-____) English writer

Broun, Heywood C. (1888-1939) US journalist, author

Broun, Heywood Hale (1918-____) US broadcast journalist, actor, author

Brown, Helen Gurley (1922-____) US editor, author

Buchwald, Art (1925-____) US columnist

Buckley, Jr., William F. (1925-____) US editor

Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994) US author

Bunch, Charlotte (1944-____) US feminist theorist, lecturer, writer

Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) English novelist, letter writer

Burroughs, William S. (1914-____) US writer

Burton, Isabel (1831-1896) English traveler, author

Buscaglia, Leo (1925-1998) US author, educator

Butler (b), Samuel (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar

Caen, Herb (1916-1997) US journalist, columnist, author

Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987) US author, editor

Canby, Vincent (1924-____) US journalist, critic

Carpenter, Liz (1920-____) US writer, feminist

Cerf, Bennett (1898-1971) US journalist, publisher

Child, Julia (1912-____) US chef, author, TV personality

Chopin, Kate (1851-1904) US author

Colby, Frank Moore (1865-1925) US encyclopedia editor, essayist

Collange, Christiane () French writer

Colton, Charles Caleb (1780-1832) English sportsman, writer

Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974) English journalist, editor, writer

Cooke, Alistair (1908-____) English-USA journalist, broadcaster

Crist, Judith (1922-____) US film critic

Cronkite, Walter (1916-____) US broadcast journalist

Cuppy, Will (1884-1949) US writer, critic

Curtis, George William (1824-1892) US author, editor

Davis, Elmer (1890-1958) US journalist, news commentator

Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910) US author, journalist, critic

Day, Clarence (1874-1935) US biographer, essayist

Deming, Barbara (1917-____) US author, pacifist, political activist

Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher

Dix, Dorothy (1870-1951) US journalist, writer

Doren, Carl Van (1885-1950) US author, teacher

Dos Passos, John (1896-1970) US writer

Dowling, Colette (1938-____) US writer

Drew, Elizabeth (1935-____) US journalist, commentator

Ehrlich, Gretel () US writer

Ellerbee, Linda (1944-____) US broadcast journalist

Fallaci, Oriana (1930-____) Italian writer, journalist

Feather, William (1889-1981) US author, publisher

Fishel, Elizabeth () US writer

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) US author, essayist

Flanner, Janet (1892-1978) US journalist

Forbes, B. C. (1880-1954) Scottish journalist

Fowler, Gene (1890-1960) US journalist, biographer

Frank, Anne (1929-1945) German-Dutch diarist

French, Marilyn (1929-____) US writer

Fripp, Patricia () English-USA business speaker, author

Gardner, John W. (1912-____) US writer, government official

Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879) US journalist

Geyer, Georgie Anne (1935-____) US columnist, journalist

Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) French diarist

Goodman, Ellen (1941-____) US journalist

Goodman, Paul (1911-1972) US author, poet, educator

Graham, Sheilah (1904-1988) US columnist

Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916-____) US author, critic

Harrington, Michael (1928-1989) US writer

Harris, Sydney J. (1917-1986) US journalist, author

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti () US writer, publicist

Harvey, Paul (1918-____) US broadcast journalist

Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) English writer, essayist

Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher

Heilbrun, Carolyn (1926-____) US writer, educator

Heller, Robert (1933-____) US editor

Helps, Arthur (1813-1875) English historian, novelist, essayist

Heywood, John (1497?-1580?) English proverb collector, dramatist

Holland, J. G. (1819-1881) US author

Holmes, Marjorie () US writer

Howard, Jane (1935-1996) US journalist, writer

Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915) US publisher, author

Hubbard, Kin (1868-1930) US journalist, humorist

Huntley, Chet (1911-1975) US broadcast journalist

Jameson, Anna (1794-1860) Irish author, art critic

Janeway, Elizabeth (1913-____) US writer

Jarry, Alfred (1873-1907) French writer

Johnson, John H. (1918-____) US publisher

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) English lexicographer, critic

Jordan, June (1936-____) US writer, poet, journalist

Joubert, Joseph (1754-1824) French essayist, moralist

Juvenal, (60-140) Roman satirist

Kael, Pauline (1919-____) US critic

Kazantzakis, Nikos (1885-1957) Greek writer

Keillor, Garrison (1942-____) US author, producer

Keller, Helen (1880-1968) US author, lecturer

Kennedy, Rose (1890-1995) US author, political relative

Kerr, Jean (1923-____) US humorist, author, playwright

Kleiser, Grenville (1868-1953) US author

Koller, Alice () US writer

Korda, Michael (1919-1973) US publisher

LaFollette, Suzanne (1895?-1983) US writer, editor

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) English essayist, author

Landers, Ann (1918-____) US advice columnist

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933) US humorist, journalist, short-story writer

Lebowitz, Fran (1950-____) US journalist

Lerner, Harriet () US therapist, writer

Lerner, Max (1902-1992) US political columnist, educator

Lessing, Doris (1919-____) English author, playwright

Levenson, Sam (1911-1980) U.S. humorist, author

Liebling, A. J. (1904-1963) US journalist, author

Lilly, Doris (1926-1991) US journalist, writer

Linall, Jr., A. L. (1947-____) US editor

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906-____) US writer

Lippmann, Walter (1889-1974) US journalist, editor, author

Little, Mary Wilson () US writer

Livermore, Mary Ashton (1820-1905) US journalist, social reformer, lecturer

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt (1884-1980) US author, socialite, celebrity relative

Lorimer, George (1867-1937) US editor, writer

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) US poet, critic, editor, diplomat

Luce, Henry R. (1898-1967) US editor, publisher

Luxemburg, Rosa (1871-1919) Polish German socialist, writer

Lynes, J. Russel (1910-1991) US author, editor

Mailer, Norman (1923-____) US novelist, journalist

Mannes, Marya (1904-1990) US journalist, writer

Marquis, Don (1878-1937) US journalist, poet, dramatist, humorist

Martin, Judith (1938-____) US author, journalist

Masefield, John (1878-1967) English novelist, poet, playwright

McGinley, Phyllis (1905-1978) US author, poet

McLaughlin, Mignon () US journalist, author

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956) US editor, satirist

Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996) English-USA journalist

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1553-1592) French essayist, courtier

More, Hannah (1745-1833) English writer

Morgan, Robin (1941-____) US editor, feminist, writer

Murdoch, Rupert (1931-____) US publisher

Murrow, Edward R. (1908-1965) US broadcast journalist

Nathan, George Jean (1882-1958) US editor, critic

Necker, Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794) French writer

Oliphant, Margaret (1828-1897) Scottish writer

Packard, Vance (1914-1996) US nonfiction writer

Paddleford, Clementine (1900-1967) US journalist, editor

Pater, Walter (1839-1894) English essayist, critic

Pegler, Westbrook (1894-1969) US journalist

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) English diarist, naval administrator

Piercy, Marge (1936-____) US writer

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin () US writer, editor, columnist

Quindlen, Anna (1953-____) US journalist, novelist

Quinn, Jane Bryant (1939-____) US journalist

Repplier, Agnes (1858-1950) US essayist

Rivarol, Antoine (1753-1801) French journalist, epigrammatist

Rooney, Andy (1919-____) US commentator, producer, author

Rowland, Helen () English-USA writer

Runyon, Damon (1884-1946) US journalist, short-story writer

Ruskin, John (1819-1900) English critic, author

Saroyan, William (1908-1981) US writer, novelist, playwright

Savant, Marilyn vos (1946-____) US columnist, writer

Sawyer, Diane (1945-____) US broadcast journalist

Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772-1829) German critic, writer

Sevigne, Marie de (1626-1696) French diarist

Sheehy, Gail (1937-____) US writer, journalist, editor

Sinetar, Marsha () US writer

Smiley, Jane (1949-____) US writer

Smith, Liz (1923-____) US columnist

Sontag, Susan (1933-____) US author, critic

Southey, Robert (1774-1843) English author

Stark, Freya () French-English travel writer

Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932) English biographer, critic

Taylor, Susan L. (1946-____) US journalist

Thomas, Lowell (1892-1981) US radio broadcaster, journalist

Thompson, Dorothy (1894-1961) US journalist, writer

Thomson, James (1834-1882) Scottish poet, essayist

Trilling, Diane (1905-1996) US author, critic

Tuckerman, Henry (1813-1871) US critic, essayist, poet

Ueland, Brenda (1891-1986) US writer

Van Buren, Abigail (1918-____) US journalist

Van Horne, Harriet (1920-____) US columnist

Vaughan, Bill (1915-1977) US journalist, author

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747) French moralist, essayist

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt (1922-____) US author, journalist

Vreeland, Diana (1903-1989) US fashion editor

Walters, Barbara (1931-____) US broadcast journalist

Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) English author

Wells, H. G. (1866-1946) English writer

West, Rebecca (1892-1983) Irish author, journalist

Whipple, Edwin Percy (1819-1886) US essayist

Whitehorn, Katharine (1928-____) English writer, essayist

Wieder, Marcia () US writer, motivational speaker

Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957) US author

Will, George (1941-____) US journalist, TV personality

Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972) US critic, essayist

Winchell, Walter (1897-1972) US journalist, broadcaster

Woodman, Marion (1928-____) Canadian analyst, writer

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) English author, critic

Yu-t'ang, Lin (1895-1976) Chinese writer