Examples of novelist in a Sentence
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In the new Hulu limited series Under the Bridge, Riley Keough plays Rebecca Godfrey, a novelist who begins writing a non-fiction book about the murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl who lived in the same Canadian suburb where Rebecca grew up.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
The first reason suggests something admirable, even remarkable, in Rushdie’s character, a determination to persist as a novelist and a man in the face of terror.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2024
Inspired by the book of the same name, the Apple Originals film stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway, a reclusive novelist behind a series of best-selling books about the fictional super spy Argylle (Henry Cavill).
—Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
As a novelist, she was predisposed to support any suggestion of disappearing for a while to create something big and ambitious.
—Louis Lucero Ii, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
For more than a decade after The Bluest Eye marked her debut as a novelist, Toni Morrison remained a senior editor at Random House—a job in which, as any editor knows, writing rejection letters is an unfortunately crucial skill.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 Apr. 2024
Hasler wanted to show me his newest path, a 39-mile-long trek that celebrates one of Switzerland’s most famous novelists, Jeremias Gotthelf, who lived in and wrote about the Emmental in the 1800s.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
Charlotte is a novelist, essayist, editor, and educator, while Melinda is an educator, professional creativity and leadership coach, as well as a musician– singer/songwriter and bass player.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
In the quest for the next culture-dominating Game of Thrones-esque series, consider Netflix’s big bet: 3 Body Problem, an adaptation of Chinese novelist Liu Cixin’s 2008 science fiction novel (the tote-around paperback for the haute-nerd set).
—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
The first reason suggests something admirable, even remarkable, in Rushdie’s character, a determination to persist as a novelist and a man in the face of terror.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2024
Inspired by the book of the same name, the Apple Originals film stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway, a reclusive novelist behind a series of best-selling books about the fictional super spy Argylle (Henry Cavill).
—Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
As a novelist, she was predisposed to support any suggestion of disappearing for a while to create something big and ambitious.
—Louis Lucero Ii, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
For more than a decade after The Bluest Eye marked her debut as a novelist, Toni Morrison remained a senior editor at Random House—a job in which, as any editor knows, writing rejection letters is an unfortunately crucial skill.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 Apr. 2024
Hasler wanted to show me his newest path, a 39-mile-long trek that celebrates one of Switzerland’s most famous novelists, Jeremias Gotthelf, who lived in and wrote about the Emmental in the 1800s.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
Charlotte is a novelist, essayist, editor, and educator, while Melinda is an educator, professional creativity and leadership coach, as well as a musician– singer/songwriter and bass player.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
In the quest for the next culture-dominating Game of Thrones-esque series, consider Netflix’s big bet: 3 Body Problem, an adaptation of Chinese novelist Liu Cixin’s 2008 science fiction novel (the tote-around paperback for the haute-nerd set).
—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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