List of diarists 209928 212649661 2008-05-15T17:52:44Z Pikle 1692678 /* External links */ This is a '''list of [[diary|diarists]]'''. {{inc-lit}} == A - F == * [[John Adams]], 2nd [[President 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 of [[Arthur 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]], [[United Kingdom|British]] politician * [[Arnold Bennett]], novelist * [[Nicholas Blundell]] 1669-1737 (diary 1711-1728) * [[Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury|Violet Bonham Carter]], British politician, daughter of Prime Minister [[Herbert Henry Asquith]] * [[Stanley Booth]], chronicled his personal experiences with music personalities of the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]] * [[James Boswell]], chronicler of [[Samuel 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 legendary [[Flying Tigers]]. * [[Mary Chesnut]], described life in [[South Carolina]] during the [[American Civil War]] * [[Galeazzo Ciano]], [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]]'s foreign minister * [[Kurt Cobain]], rock musician, [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s lead singer * [[Richard Crossman]], British politician and writer * [[Aleister Crowley]], British occultist and poet * [[Adam Czerniaków]], head of the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]'s [[Judenrat]] * Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: see [[Lewis 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 in [[Sarajevo]] during the [[Yugoslav war]] * [[Miles Franklin]], Australian author * [[Donald Friend]], Australian artist * [[Anne Frank]], hid from the [[Nazism|Nazis]] during [[World War II]] * [[Elizabeth Freke]], 1642-1714 (diary 1671-1714) * [[Max Frisch]], playwright and novelist * [[Buckminster Fuller]], designer and engineer == G - M == * [[Wanda Gag]], artist and children's book author * [[Andre Gide]], author * [[Allen Ginsberg]], Beat poet * [[Mary Gladstone]], British political diarist * [[Joseph Goebbels]], [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Propaganda]] [[Minister (government)|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 the [[Columbine High School massacre]]. * [[Philip Henslowe]], Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur * [[Etty Hillesum]], young [[Judaism|Jewish]] victim of [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Germany]] * [[Henry Hitchcock]], served under General [[William 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 of [[Henry James]] and [[William James]]: lived in England during the [[1880s]] and [[1890s]] * [[Arthur Jessop]], 1639-1727. West Yorkshire apothecary * [[Carolina Maria de Jesus]], [[Brazil]]ian slum survivor * [[Liz Jones]], writer and journalist * [[William Jones (diarist)|William Jones]], 1755-1821, [[vicar]] of [[Broxbourne]] (diary 1777-1821) * [[Franz Kafka]], writer * [[Frida Kahlo]], painter * [[Alfred Kazin]], literary critic * [[Friedrich Kellner]], Justice Inspector and author of [[My 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]], [[Canada|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 * [[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 [[Charles Lindbergh|aviator]], kept diaries her whole life and describes in detail what the family experienced as a result of the [[kidnapping]] of their child * [[Courtney Love]], actress and rock musician * [[Henry Machyn]], 16 century London diarist * [[Thomas Mann]], German novelist and winner of the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature * [[Judith Malina]], actress, cofounder of the [[Living Theatre]] * [[John Manningham]], law student, 1602-1603 * [[Katherine Mansfield]], author * [[M Vijay Sai Rao]],student ,currently pursuing BE from Indore. * [[Megan McCafferty]], YA author * [[Matsuo Bashō]], [[haiku]] and [[renga]] 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 of [[Diamantina]] during the [[1890s]] * [[Roger Morrice]], Puritan minister and political journalist * [[Arthur Munby]], Victorian poet, barrister, and solicitor * [[Iris Murdoch]], author == N - Z == * [[Sylas Neville]], 1741-1840 (diary 1767-1788) * [[Stevie Nicks]], singer/songwriter, member of [[Fleetwood Mac]] * [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky) * [[Anaïs Nin]], lover of [[Henry Miller]], [[pornography|pornographer]] and [[poet]]: also known for her [[erotica]] * [[James Oakes (diarist)|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 (the younger) (1777-1848)|Thomas Raikes]] * [[Ronald Reagan]] 40th President of the United States * [[Ned Rorem]], composer * [[Henry Rollins]], singer for [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]] * [[Dudley Ryder (judge)|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 Shonagon]] * [[Emily Shore]] * [[Frances Stevenson]], mistress and second wife of British Prime Minister [[David 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-winning [[journalist]] 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 of [[Samuel Johnson]] * [[Sophia Tolstoy]], wife of Russian author [[Leo 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 kill [[Adolf Hitler]] * [[Victoria of the United Kingdom]], 19th Century Monarch of the [[UK]]. * [[Alice Walker]], author * [[Cosima Wagner]], daughter of [[Franz Liszt]], second wife of [[Richard 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, [[natural history|naturalist]] and subject of several books, including one by [[Benjamin Hoff]] * [[Elie Wiesel]], author * [[Kenneth Williams]], comic actor * [[Lieutenant-General Adam Williamson]], deputy lieutenant of the [[Tower 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 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 Relief Society of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] ==Fake diaries== * [[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#The Black Diaries and Casement’s sexuality|Roger Casement's Black Diaries]], which details his alleged [[Homosexuality|homosexual activies]]. Believed by some to be a forgery perpetrated by the British government. ==Fictional diaries== * [[Bridget Jones]]'s Diary * [[The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]] * [[The Princess Diaries]] * [[Sloppy Firsts]] ==See also== *[[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.] [[Category:Diarists|*]] [[Category:Lists of writers|Diarists]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Diarists}}