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Matthiessen was a prolific novelist as well as nature writer, a social activist, an advocacy journalist, not to mention a Paris Review founding editor, Zen priest, and onetime CIA operative.
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Megan Marshall
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Filmmaker Landesman also began his career as a journalist — as well as painter and novelist.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Whipper also discusses his friendship with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in 1906, at the age of thirty-three; the two men had been neighbors and fishing buddies.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Based on the 1955 novel of the same name by lesbian novelist Patricia Highsmith, Ripley finds the titular character traveling to Italy to convince wealthy heir Dickie Greenleaf to return home at his wealthy family’s behest.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
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Megan Marshall
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Filmmaker Landesman also began his career as a journalist — as well as painter and novelist.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Whipper also discusses his friendship with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in 1906, at the age of thirty-three; the two men had been neighbors and fishing buddies.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Based on the 1955 novel of the same name by lesbian novelist Patricia Highsmith, Ripley finds the titular character traveling to Italy to convince wealthy heir Dickie Greenleaf to return home at his wealthy family’s behest.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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