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Recent Examples of essayist
Soyinka, born on 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a renowned playwright, poet, essayist and public intellectual.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
—Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
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Published in 2020, Beach Read is a romantic comedy following January Andrews, a successful romance novelist who struggles with grief and writer’s block after her father’s death and the discovery of secrets he’s long kept hidden.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2026
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An English professor at Harvard and the author of two acclaimed novels, The Old Drift (2019) and The Furrows (2022), Serpell combines a professorial breadth of reference and a novelist’s fascination with the mechanics of literature.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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Poets and playwrights worked alongside speechwriters on his staff.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2026
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Paulus learned about her through Mikel’s work with V (the playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler), and Mikel was impressive enough to land a bigger role in the 2023 touring production.—
Sarah Hepola,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 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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Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Bobby Duvall, the greatest storyteller of all time just left us.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2026
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Newsom’s father’s family was full of more traditional Democrats and Irish Catholic storytellers who worked in banking, homebuilding, law enforcement and law.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 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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Alexandra Tanner’s Worry is soon headed to a laptop near you, under the direction of vetted satirist Nicole Holofcener.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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The legendary screenwriter and director of The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic, and the Avatar films will be presented with the honor at the 78th annual Writers Guild Awards on March 8.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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How many blockbusters does James Cameron need to write before he’s finally considered a great screenwriter?—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026
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