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As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.
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René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Set in a quaint, New England town, the six-part series follows bestselling novelist, Allie (Shields), who forms an unlikely alliance with Andi (Williamson), an aspiring writer and podcaster, to find the killer of a close friend.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 May 2026
It should be noted that Park, who doesn’t seem to be one for cutting corners, is also a novelist, as well as the co-organizer of Seoul’s West Village Comedy Club, the Seoul Reading Room and art archive, and the Curating School Seoul.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
Born and raised in West Virginia in an Allegheny Mountain town, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, who is now 73, left Appalachia in early adulthood and has since lived on both coasts and in the Mountain West.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 6 May 2026
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René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Set in a quaint, New England town, the six-part series follows bestselling novelist, Allie (Shields), who forms an unlikely alliance with Andi (Williamson), an aspiring writer and podcaster, to find the killer of a close friend.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 May 2026
It should be noted that Park, who doesn’t seem to be one for cutting corners, is also a novelist, as well as the co-organizer of Seoul’s West Village Comedy Club, the Seoul Reading Room and art archive, and the Curating School Seoul.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
Born and raised in West Virginia in an Allegheny Mountain town, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, who is now 73, left Appalachia in early adulthood and has since lived on both coasts and in the Mountain West.
—The Week Us, TheWeek, 6 May 2026
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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