Nonfiction Prose

His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surrealisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

Marinetti is known best as the author of the Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote in 1909.

Coleridge wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.

first published as an essay titled The Great Lawsuit in the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial in July 1843, then substantially expanded and republished in book form under its current title in 1845

is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli

is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou

Memoir

Essays

Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836.

a prose and verse travel diary

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which was published in the Transcendentalists' journal, The Dial.

Memoir

is a book of observations and musings

a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk

is a nonfiction book by David Pringle

Genre: Autobiography, belles-lettres, essays, children's literature

Genre: Fiction, non-fiction

Genre: literary short story, novel, essay, Transgressive Fiction

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Her first book, Hitler's Heroines: Stardom, Womanhood and the Popular in Nazi Cinema, was published with Temple University Press in 2003.

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936-13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.

Carlos Fuentes Macías (; Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ; November 11, 1928, May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and ambassador to France.

His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan.

A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929.

In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is an essay by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki about Japanese aesthetics.

The Book of Tea (茶の本, Cha no Hon) by Okakura Kakuzō is a long 1906 essay linking the role of chadō (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life and protesting Western caricatures of "the East".

Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984.

Jensens "Gradiva") is an essay written in 1907 by Sigmund Freud that subjects the novel Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy by Wilhelm Jensen, and especially its protagonist, to psychoanalysis.

His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915, February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in 20th-century American theater.

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator.

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903-17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947.

Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer.

She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888-4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

Leonardo Sciascia (Italian: [leoˈnardo ʃˈʃaʃʃa] ; 8 January 1921-20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician.

Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous writers of Western literature; his Essais contain some of the most influential essays ever written.

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817, May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821-31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802-22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871-18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words.

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924, December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges ( BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 24 August 1899-14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875-12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

Cesare Pavese (UK: pav-AY-zay, -⁠zee, Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare paˈveːze, ˈtʃɛː-, -eːse]; 9 September 1908-27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.

His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature.