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Jean Chardin
Jean Chardin, later Sir John Chardin, was a French Huguenot jeweler and merchant who spent about ten years in Safavid Persia and wrote the ten-volume Voyages en Perse.
Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) was a French essayist and moralist, author of Les Caractères (1688), a collection of maxims and portraits of his century.
Jean Guéhenno
Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a French writer, teacher, and education inspector best remembered for Journal des années noires, his secret diary of the German occupation of France.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski (1920–2019) was a Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and psychiatrist of the Geneva School, known for his studies of Montaigne, Rousseau, Diderot, and the Enlightenment.
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls (born 1960, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author and journalist, former E! and New York magazine gossip columnist, best known for the bestselling memoir The Glass Castle (2005) and the novels Half Broke Horses, The Silver Star, and Hang the Moon.
Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth (1935-2011), born Jennifer Louise Lee, was a British nurse-midwife, musician, and writer whose Call the Midwife trilogy of memoirs of 1950s East End midwifery became UK bestsellers and inspired the BBC series.
Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000) was a Polish editor and political writer who founded the Literary Institute and edited the Paris-based émigré monthly Kultura from 1947 until his death.
Jesús G. Maestro
Jesús G. Maestro (Jesús González Maestro, born 1967, Gijón) is a Spanish professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universidade de Vigo, author of the 25-volume Crítica de la razón literaria based on Gustavo Bueno's philosophical materialism, and a viral YouTube lecturer on Cervantes.
Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino, Canadian-American essayist and screenwriter, New Yorker staff writer since 2016, author of the 2019 essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Won the 2023 National Magazine Award for abortion writing; formerly deputy editor of Jezebel.
Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren (Jillian Lauren Shriner), American author of the memoirs Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (2010) and Everything You Ever Wanted (2015), the novel Pretty, and Behold the Monster (2023) about serial killer Samuel Little; wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner.
Jimmy Keene
Jimmy Keene, or James Keene, is an American author and former drug dealer who went undercover in prison to elicit a confession from suspected serial killer Larry Hall.
Jin Shengtan
Jin Shengtan (金圣叹, 1608–1661) was a Chinese literary critic of the late Ming and early Qing who annotated the Water Margin and Romance of the Western Chamber.
Joachim Camerarius
Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574) was a German humanist, classical philologist, and Lutheran reformer, counted the most distinguished German philologist of the 16th century after Erasmus and a close collaborator of Philipp Melanchthon.
Joan Vollmer
Joan Vollmer (1923-1951), also Joan Vollmer Burroughs, hosted the New York apartment where Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg formed the Beat circle; her common-law husband William S. Burroughs shot her dead in Mexico City in 1951.
João de Barros
João de Barros (c. 1496–1570) was a Portuguese historian and royal official who wrote the Décadas da Ásia, one of the earliest accounts of the Portuguese empire in Asia.
Joaquín García Icazbalceta
Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1825–1894) was a Mexican historian, bibliographer, and private printer who edited sixteenth-century New Spain documents and wrote the foundational bibliography of early Mexican printing.
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) was an English poet and cultural historian, author of the seven-volume Renaissance in Italy and a pioneer in the study of homosexuality.
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628–1688), English Nonconformist tinker-turned-preacher jailed twelve years in Bedford, wrote about sixty books including The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Grace Abounding (1666), and The Holy War (1682).
John Foxe
John Foxe (1516/17–1587) was an English martyrologist and church historian whose Actes and Monuments, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, first printed in 1563, shaped English Protestantism.
John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003), American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter, husband of Joan Didion; author of The Studio, True Confessions, and Monster, and co-writer of Panic in Needle Park.
John Malalas
John Malalas (Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας) was a sixth-century Greek-speaking chronicler born in or near Antioch, whose eighteen-book Chronographia, written in colloquial Greek, runs from the Creation to Justinian I.
John McPhee
John McPhee, full name John Angus McPhee, is an American writer of creative nonfiction, a New Yorker staff writer since 1965, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry (1889–1957) was an English critic and editor of the Athenaeum and founder of The Adelphi, husband of Katherine Mansfield, Eliot's romanticism rival, and critic of Keats, Dostoevsky, and Lawrence.
John Perkins (author)
John Perkins is an American author and critic who served as a chief economist from 1971 to 1981. His 2004 book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, details his work.
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969) is an American presidential biographer and former Newsweek editor who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for American Lion and holds a chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing house founded in January 1921 by Jonathan Cape and George Wren Howard, now a Vintage imprint of Penguin Random House.
Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall (born 1972) is an American literary scholar at Washington & Jefferson College known for applying evolutionary theory to literature in books including The Storytelling Animal and The Rape of Troy.
Jordan Ngubane
Jordan Ngubane was a South African journalist and author who co-founded the Congress Youth League and edited the newspaper Inkundla ya Bantu from 1944 to 1951.
José Bergamín
José Bergamín (1895–1983) was a Spanish essayist, playwright, and editor of the Generation of '27, known for aphoristic prose and long exile after the Spanish Civil War.
José Cadalso
José Cadalso (1741–1782) was a Spanish writer and army officer who died as a colonel at the siege of Gibraltar, known for Cartas marruecas and Noches lúgubres.