As secretary to his father in Europe, he became an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist.
In 1942, the diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Diarist Nigel Dempster, campaigning journalist Paul Foot and cartoonist Carl Giles are among those honoured.
Keen diarist Ken Owen from Llanfechell has kept a diary for 53 years.
He may have been a cad, a bounder and a terrible snob, but that is the essential armoury of a diarist.
Samuel Pepys, the diarist who told the story of the Great Fire of London set up one of the first pension schemes.
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Another diarist, Tilly Rice, packed off to North Cornwall with her three children, leaving her husband, a government worker, behind in London.
But soon the diarist moves into the darker corners of his personality.
Disappointed, the diarist and his friends started to ride back to town.
Clark's diaries revealed him to be lusty, indiscreet and amusing all good characteristics in a diarist, though it will be interesting to see how well they have aged.
That flag would fly over the island for 156 years, until a ceremonial hand-off that saw the final British governor, Chris Patten, in tears, and reduced Prince Charles to angry diarist mode.
Yet overstatement, like inconsistency, is a diarist's privilege.
And, ten years after the death of Alan Clark, Ion Trewin, who edited his diaries, and political commentator Anthony Howard, discussed how much of Clark the politician survives, as well as the diarist .
Cox started the popular political blog Wonkette ("politics for people with dirty minds") where she helped catapult Washington online sex diarist Jessica Cutler from the obscurity of work as a congressional assistant to the, er, exposure of a Playboy, er, spread and a fictionalized account of her capitol crimes in a trashy little novel called The Washingtonienne.
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