List of diarists

This is a list of diarists.

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• James Agate, writer and critic
• Louisa May Alcott, novelist
• Isaac Ambrose, Puritan
• Henri-Frederic Amiel, philosopher, poet, and critic
• Martha Ballard, midwife and healer
• W. N. P. Barbellion, sufferer of multiple sclerosis
• Marie Bashkirtseff 1858-1884, painter and sculptor
• Libby Beaman
• Tony Benn, British politician
• Arnold Bennett, novelist
• Stanley Booth, chronicled his personal experiences with music personalities of the 1960s and 1970s
• James Boswell, chronicler of Samuel Johnson
• Fanny Burney, novelist
• Jim Carroll, author, poet, and musician
• Mary Chesnut, described life in South Carolina during American Civil War
• Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister
• Richard Crossman, British politician and writer
• George Bubb Dodington, British politician and nobleman
• Edward Robb Ellis, writer and reporter
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
• John Evelyn, writer and gardener
• Anne Frank, hid from the Nazis during World War Two
• Buckminster Fuller, designer and engineer
• Charlotte Forten Grimké, abolitionist and women's rights activist
• Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur
• Etty Hillesum, young Jewish victim of Nazi Germany
• Carolina Maria de Jesus, Brazilian slum survivor
• Frida Kahlo, painter
• Francis Kilvert, described rural Victorian life
• William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian prime minister
• Victor Klemperer, professor of literature, described life as a Jew under the Nazis
• Selma Lagerlöf, first female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of the aviator, kept diaries her whole life and describes in detail what the family experienced as a result of the kidnapping of their child
• Katherine Mansfield, author
• Matsuo Basho, haiku and renga poet also known for his travel diaries
• Michinaga, 11th century de-facto Japanese ruler
• Roger Morrice, puritan minister and political journalist
• Arthur Munby, Victorian poet, barrister, and solicitor
• Anais Nin, lover of Henry Miller, pornographer and poet; also known for her erotica
• Joe Orton, playwright
• Samuel Pepys, civil servant
• Sylvia Plath poet
• Ned Rorem, composer
• Henry Rollins, singer for Black Flag
• May Sarton, poet and novelist
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet and author
• George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize-winning playwright
• Emily Shore
• Hester Thrale 1740-1821, author, friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson
• Sophia Tolstoy
• Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, poet and writer
• Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner
• Richard Wagner, composer
• Opal Whiteley
• Kenneth Williams, comic actor
• Edmund Wilson, writer and critic
• Wilford Woodruff, fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Virginia Woolf, author and feminist
• Dorothy Wordsworth, poet, sister of William Wordsworth
• Zina D. H. Young, third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 
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