His best-known essay is "Self- Reliance."

His best-known essay, "The Apples of Cezanne" (1968), turns the Frenchman into a case history.

In 2000, the magazine Lingua Franca published his best-known essay, Is Bad Writing Necessary?

His best-known essay Reflections on the Seventh Art was published in 1923 after a number of earlier drafts, all published in Italy or France.

In the latter, Velarde published one of his best-known essays, "Novedad de la Patria", where he expounded on the ideas of his earlier poems.

In "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", one of Singer's best-known philosophical essays, he argues that some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible.

Readings from Baldwin's best-known essays and fiction, somewhat affectedly delivered by Maya Angelou, tie his life and work together.

Meadows published Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, one of her best-known essays, in 1999.

One of his best-known essays was an 1857 piece called "The City of Unlimited Paper", which became famous during the monetary panic of 1857.

Hélène Cixous argued in her best-known essay 'The Laugh of the Medusa' that writing was more important in the construction of womanhood than biology.