List of diarists

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1 A - F
2 G - M
3 N - Z
4 Fake diaries
5 Diaries of disputed authenticity
6 Fictional diaries
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] 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, British politician
Arnold Bennett, novelist
Nicholas Blundell 1669-1737 (diary 1711-1728)
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, 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 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 Nazis during World War II
Elizabeth Freke, 1642-1714 (diary 1671-1714)
Max Frisch, playwright and novelist
Buckminster Fuller, designer and engineer

[edit] 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
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 Jewish victim of 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, Brazilian slum survivor
Liz Jones, writer and journalist
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, 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 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 Japanese 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

[edit] 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, pornographer and poet: also known for her erotica
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 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, 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.