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Recent Examples of essayist
The collaboration between the Hollywood actor and the celebrated essayist sounds like its own meet-cute, and the origin story is almost as entertaining as the book promises to be.
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Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.
—Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
In 1989, at Dartmouth College, the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky delivered what must be one of the strangest commencement addresses of all time (and definitely one of the most Russian).
—Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Rankin is a celebrated visual artist whose works take pride of place in both public and private collections around the world; Brett is a novelist, poet, and essayist whose writing has been widely published.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2026
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Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.
—Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
In 1989, at Dartmouth College, the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky delivered what must be one of the strangest commencement addresses of all time (and definitely one of the most Russian).
—Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Rankin is a celebrated visual artist whose works take pride of place in both public and private collections around the world; Brett is a novelist, poet, and essayist whose writing has been widely published.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse is launching production label Mother Bare Productions with the first project a movie adaptation of popular American novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon’s upcoming urban fantasy book series Infernal Affairs, which Pieterse will star in and produce.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2026
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So said American novelist Wallace Stegner in the 1980s, and guess what – the country’s people still seem to agree.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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An acclaimed playwright and director, Valdez recognized the impact of seeing one’s humanity reflected on stage and screen, using theater as a tool for social change while collaborating with farmworkers.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2026
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The playwright was driven to get his story out.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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The dramatist’s mode is broader and brasher, calculated for the sweep of the stage rather than the close-up, with splashes of color and humor that can verge on camp.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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The dramatist’s encounter with the audience, whether disappointing or exhilarating, is a unique, indelible experience.—
John Lahr,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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He's got to be one of the most amazing storytellers that way.—
Martha Teichner,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Her first novel, In the Woods (2007), established her as a skilled storyteller who blends the elements of police procedurals and psychological thrillers with an engaging literary style.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Omar Badawy Omar is a comedian and satirist originally from Egypt.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2026
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John Heartfield, the pseudonym of German artist Helmut Herzfeld, was a leading photographic satirist who was fiercely opposed to Hitler and his Nazi party.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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This is a bone of contention between me and my husband, who is a screenwriter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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The very setup suggests a screenwriter whose sense of psychology is defined with arid literalism by his own just-so, cut-to-fit contrivances.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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