বায়োগ্রাফি: Michel De Montaigne is the first person to describe his writings as essays. He is known as the father of Modern Skepticism. He is best known for his essays which are considered to be the best of all times. His works established essays as a literary genre during the Renaissance. His work is renowned for its absorption of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. His massive volume Essays contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne directly influenced many forthcoming Western writers, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly, on the later works of William Shakespeare. Throughout his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a respected political leader than as an author. The propensity in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal reflection was seen as detrimental.