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While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial killers, the general public was asking the same question about drug addicts.
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Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Written by Coel, the series follows Henri (Coel), British-Ghanaian novelist who is on the run – from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
That’s what has happened, this year, with the novelist Cameron Reed.
—Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
The word chintzy, meaning cheap or gaudy, first appears in a letter written by the English Victorian novelist George Eliot to her sister in 1851.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Written by Coel, the series follows Henri (Coel), British-Ghanaian novelist who is on the run – from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
That’s what has happened, this year, with the novelist Cameron Reed.
—Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
The word chintzy, meaning cheap or gaudy, first appears in a letter written by the English Victorian novelist George Eliot to her sister in 1851.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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