James Lees-Milne
English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer
20th-century diarists
Michihiko Hachiya
Japanese physician who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience
M. F. K. Fisher
American food writer
R. Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work and futurist
E. M. Delafield
Prolific English author
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer