- List of diarists
This is a list of diarists.
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John Adams , 2ndPresident of the United States , statesman, diplomat
*John Quincy Adams , 6th President of the United States, statesman, diplomat
*James Agate , writer and critic
*Louisa May Alcott , novelist
*Isaac Ambrose ,Puritan
*Henri-Frederic Amiel , philosopher, poet, and critic
*Harriet Arbuthnot , 19th century English diarist and close associate ofArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
*Martha Ballard , midwife and healer
*W. N. P. Barbellion , naturalist, essayist and short story writer
*Marie Bashkirtseff (1858 –1884 ), painter and sculptor
*Libby Beaman (1844-1932)1st non-native woman in Pribilof Islds
*Peter Hill Beard , photographer in Africa
*Tony Benn , British politician
*Arnold Bennett , novelist
*Nicholas Blundell 1669-1737 (diary 1711-1728)
* Violet Bonham Carter, British politician, daughter of Prime MinisterHerbert Henry Asquith
*Stanley Booth , chronicled his personal experiences with music personalities of the1960s and1970s
*James Boswell , chronicler ofSamuel Johnson
*Vera Brittain , author and feminist
*Fanny Burney , novelist
*Meg Cabot , YA author
*Jim Carroll , author, poet, and musician
*Lewis Carroll , writer and mathematician
*John Cheever , American novelist
*Claire Lee Chennault , US World War II General. Head of the legendaryFlying Tigers .
*Mary Chesnut , described life inSouth Carolina during theAmerican Civil War
*Galeazzo Ciano , Mussolini's foreign minister
*Kurt Cobain , rock musician, Nirvana's lead singer
*Richard Crossman , British politician and writer
*Aleister Crowley , British occultist and poet
*Adam Czerniaków , head of theWarsaw Ghetto 'sJudenrat
* Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: seeLewis Carroll
*George Bubb Dodington , British politician and nobleman
*Pete Doherty , rock musician (Babyshambles ), ex-Libertines
*Fyodor Dostoevsky , author
*Marguerite Duras , author
*Isabelle Eberhardt
*Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religion and mythologist
*Edward Robb Ellis , writer and reporter
*Ralph Waldo Emerson , writer
*John Evelyn , writer and gardener
*Marianne Faithfull , singer and actress
*Zlata Filipović , diarist inSarajevo during theYugoslav war
*Miles Franklin , Australian author
*Donald Friend , Australian artist
*Anne Frank , hid from the Nazis duringWorld War II
*Elizabeth Freke , 1642-1714 (diary 1671-1714)
*Max Frisch , playwright and novelist
*Buckminster Fuller , designer and engineerG - M
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Wanda Gag , artist and children's book author
*Andre Gide , author
*Allen Ginsberg , Beat poet
*Mary Gladstone , British political diarist
*Joseph Goebbels ,Adolf Hitler 'sPropaganda Minister
*Francine du Plessix Gray , author
*Eugénie de Guérin
*Che Guevara Revolutionary, kept diaries of his travels and of the wars he fought in
*Charlotte Forten Grimké , abolitionist and women's rights activist
*Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , perpetrators of theColumbine High School massacre .
*Philip Henslowe , Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur
*Etty Hillesum , young Jewish victim of NaziGermany
*Henry Hitchcock , served under GeneralWilliam Tecumseh Sherman
*Lady Margaret Hoby , 1599-1605
*Karen Horney , psychoanalyst
*Gerard Manley Hopkins , poet
*Arthur Crew Inman , author of a 17-million word diary
*Alice James , sister ofHenry James andWilliam James : lived in England during the1880s and1890s
*Arthur Jessop , 1639-1727. West Yorkshire apothecary
*Carolina Maria de Jesus ,Brazil ian slum survivor
*Liz Jones , writer and journalist
* William Jones, 1755-1821,vicar ofBroxbourne (diary 1777-1821)
*Franz Kafka , writer
*Frida Kahlo , painter
*Alfred Kazin , literary critic
*Friedrich Kellner , Justice Inspector and author ofMy Opposition
*Søren Kierkegaard , philosopher
*Francis Kilvert , described rural Victorian life
*John MacDonald, diarist , Memoirs of an eighteenth century footman (1745-1779)
*William Lyon Mackenzie King , Canadianprime minister
*Victor Klemperer , professor of literature, described life as a Jew under the Nazis
*Selma Lagerlöf , first female winner of theNobel Prize for Literature
*James Lees-Milne , biographer and historian, secretary of the Country House Committee of the National Trust 1936-1950
*Madeleine L'Engle , author
*Elisabeth Leseur *Anne Morrow Lindbergh , wife of the aviator, kept diaries her whole life and describes in detail what the family experienced as a result of thekidnapping of their child
*Courtney Love , actress and rock musician
*Henry Machyn , 16 century London diarist
*Thomas Mann , German novelist and winner of theNobel Prize for Literature
*Judith Malina , actress, cofounder of theLiving Theatre
*John Manningham , law student, 1602-1603
*Katherine Mansfield , author
*Megan McCafferty , YA author
*Matsuo Bashō ,haiku andrenga poet also known for his travel diaries
*Michinaga ,11th century "de facto"Japan ese ruler
*John Milward , 1599-1670 (diary 1666-1668)
*Alanis Morissette , Canadian singer-songwriter
*Helena Morley (1880 –1970 ), described life as a teenage girl in the Brazilian town ofDiamantina during the1890s
*Roger Morrice , Puritan minister and political journalist
*Arthur Munby , Victorian poet, barrister, and solicitor
*Iris Murdoch , authorN - Z
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Sylas Neville , 1741-1840 (diary 1767-1788)
*Stevie Nicks , singer/songwriter, member ofFleetwood Mac
*Vaslav Nijinsky , Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky)
*Anaïs Nin , lover ofHenry Miller , pornographer andpoet : also known for hererotica
* James Oakes, 1741-1829 (diary 1778-1827)
*Joyce Carol Oates , author
*Joe Orton , playwright
*Cynthia Ozick , author
*Michael Palin , member of Monty python, actor and travel writer
*George S. Patton , US World War II General. Part of it was published by his wife after his death as "War As I Knew It".
*Emily Pepys , 1833-1877. English child diarist (diary 1844-1845)
*Samuel Pepys , civil servant
*Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland , 1716-1776
*Sylvia Plath , poet
*James K. Polk , 11th President of the United States
*Barbara Pym , 20th century novelist
* Thomas Raikes
*Ronald Reagan 40th President of the United States
*Ned Rorem , composer
*Henry Rollins , singer for Black Flag
* Dudley Ryder, 1691-1756. Lord Chief Justice (diary 1715-1716)
*May Sarton , poet and novelist
*Siegfried Sassoon , poet and author
*Sir Walter Scott , novelist
*George Bernard Shaw ,Nobel Prize -winning playwright
*Sei Shōnagon
*Emily Shore
*Frances Stevenson , mistress and second wife of British Prime MinisterDavid Lloyd George
*Joseph Stilwell , US World War II General. Published by his widow after his death as "The Stilwell Papers".
*George Templeton Strong (1820 –1875 ), New York lawyer
*Daniel Terdiman , award-winningjournalist and diarist, published in both print and non-print media
*Henry David Thoreau (1817 -1862 ), author and philosopher
*Hester Thrale (1740 –1821 ), author, friend and confidante ofSamuel Johnson
*Sophia Tolstoy , wife of Russian authorLeo Tolstoy : they read each other's diaries
*Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva , poet and writer
*Harry S. Truman , 33rd President of the United States
*Thomas Turner (diarist and shopkeeper) , 1729-1793
*Marie Vassiltchikov , Russian princess, involved in plot to killAdolf Hitler
*Victoria of the United Kingdom , 19th Century Monarch of theUK .
*Alice Walker , author
*Cosima Wagner , daughter ofFranz Liszt , second wife ofRichard Wagner
*Richard Wagner , composer
*Ralph Ward , Yorkshire cattle-dealer (diary 1754-1756)
*Sabrina Ward Harrison
*Andy Warhol , artist
*Simone Weil , philosopher
*Denton Welch , author
*Opal Whiteley , author, naturalist and subject of several books, including one byBenjamin Hoff
*Elie Wiesel , author
*Kenneth Williams , comic actor
*Lieutenant-General Adam Williamson , deputy lieutenant of theTower of London , 1676-1747 (diary 1722-1747)
*Edmund Wilson , writer and critic
*Otto Wolf , hid from the Nazis during World War II
*James Woodforde , eighteenth century English clergyman
*Wilford Woodruff , fourth President ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*Virginia Woolf , author and feminist
*Dorothy Wordsworth , poet, sister ofWilliam Wordsworth
*Zina D. H. Young , third President of the Relief Society ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Fake diaries
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Hitler Diaries
*Mussolini diaries
* The Diary of Mrs Pepys (by F.D. Ponsonby, London 1934)
* The Journal of Mrs Pepys (by Sara George, 1998)
* Diary of a Farmer's Wife 1796-1797 (spurious, published 1964)Diaries of disputed authenticity
* Roger Casement's Black Diaries, which details his alleged homosexual activies. Believed by some to be a forgery perpetrated by the British government.
Fictional diaries
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Bridget Jones 's Diary
*The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
*The Princess Diaries
*Sloppy Firsts ee also
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List of dream diaries External links
*The Virtual Yesterday Diary Database Project: http://www.vyes.org
* [http://www.thediaryjunction.co.uk The Diary Junction - data and links for over 500 literary and historical diarists.]
* [http://www.thediaryjunction.blogspot.com The Diary Junction blog - occasional posts on diaries in the news.]
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