List of diarists
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This is a '''list of [[diary|diarists]]'''.
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== 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.]
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