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Recent Examples of essayist
Athena Nassar is an Egyptian American poet, essayist, and short-story writer.
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Athena Nassar, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Elizabeth also quoted a line from American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1847 work titled English Traits.
—Tiago Ventura, Time, 27 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
The latter book was Straub's favorite piece of work from the late director and essayist.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
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Athena Nassar, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Elizabeth also quoted a line from American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1847 work titled English Traits.
—Tiago Ventura, Time, 27 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
The latter book was Straub's favorite piece of work from the late director and essayist.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
Noun
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Braun had an unlikely poetic ally in the mystery novelist Dorothy Sayers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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On April 20th, Alex Sinclair, a novelist and part-time lecturer in Jewish education at Hebrew University, was typing away on his laptop at his favorite café in the city of Modi’in.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Walk in the footsteps of famous Irish authors and playwrights at Dunguaire Castle.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2026
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Lane is survived by his brothers Michael Lane, a former casting director, and playwright and author Eric Lane; sister Lisa Lane Crawley; their spouses, Meredith Wechter Lane, Bob Barnett and John Crawley; six nephews and one niece.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 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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And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.—
Lin Cherry,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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The musical marks the latest major project for Yankovic, whose career as America's foremost musical satirist has stretched more than four decades.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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As a director and screenwriter, Spiro’s debut feature film Night Comes On premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Sundance Innovator Award and the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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Ansari will be hosted in Paris by Franco-Chilean screenwriter Antonia Girardi.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/essayist. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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