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How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.
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Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
American critic and novelist Susan Sontag had her as a likely future contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The number of debut novelists doesn’t mean the authors lack experience.
—ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
American critic and novelist Susan Sontag had her as a likely future contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The number of debut novelists doesn’t mean the authors lack experience.
—ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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