List of diarists

• Isaac Ambrose
• Tony Benn
• James Boswell, chronicler of Samuel Johnson
• Fanny Burney
• Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister
• Richard Crossman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• John Evelyn
• Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
• Buckminster Fuller, designer and engineer
• Frida Kahlo
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of the aviator, describes in detail what the family experienced as a result of the kidnapping of her child
• Katherine Mansfield
• Michinaga
• Anais Nin, lover of Henry Miller, pornographer and poet
• Joe Orton, playwright
• Samuel Pepys, wrote in shorthand, not understood for many years
• Sylvia Plath
• Henry Rollins of Black Flag
• May Sarton
• Siegfried Sassoon
• Hester Thrale 1740-1821
• Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
• Kenneth Williams
• Virginia Woolf
• Dorothy Wordsworth
• Philip Henslowe
• Roger Morrice

• Hitler Diaries

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