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The novelist Naomi Alderman recently wrote about how the thing that keeps drawing us back to our phones is actually a misdirected desire to learn.
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Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
For Brontë, the most accomplished poet in a family of formidable novelists, that love is above all a matter of words.
—New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
The novelist’s legal representatives accused the hospital of negligence, a claim that the hospital has denied.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
The musical, which examines in jumbled chronology the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and actress Cathy, debuted in Chicago in 2001 and opened Off Broadway the following year.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
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Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
For Brontë, the most accomplished poet in a family of formidable novelists, that love is above all a matter of words.
—New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
The novelist’s legal representatives accused the hospital of negligence, a claim that the hospital has denied.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
The musical, which examines in jumbled chronology the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and actress Cathy, debuted in Chicago in 2001 and opened Off Broadway the following year.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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