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What does essayist mean?

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He was an inveterate essayist and letter writer, renowned for the forceful expression of his opinions and the ebullience of his wit.
As an essayist, he sets himself apart from rigidly academic criticism and theory and relies on a variety of unconventional references.
Last summer, Nicholson Baker, novelist and literary essayist, struck again at America's libraries.
The noted essayist Dr. Robert Coles wrote an essay about our book, so they were calling to check facts with me.
Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.
Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private.

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