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Recent Examples of essayist Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist. Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025 An award-winning poet, essayist, and editor, Lehmann embraces both the flexibility and rigorousness of creative writing. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2025 Abdul-Jabbar remained in the public eye long after his playing days as an essayist, actor, political activist and bestselling author, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report. Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025 In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism. Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for essayist
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Noun
  • Lastly, My Roommate Is a Cat is the touching story of how a shy novelist named Mikazuki Subaru comes to live with a feline companion who was dumped by humans and lived a tough life on the streets.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The move has been welcomed by the indie film community as a sign of a more sympathetic approach from Egypt’s censorship board following the appointment this past spring of respected screenwriter and novelist Abdel Rahim Kamal as the head of the body.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Evans was carving out a career as a playwright before the path to screenwriting opened.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Based on an unfinished work by poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, The Black Ball weaves together the lives of three gay men from three distinct historical periods.
    Jennifer Green, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus. Advertisement Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
    Time, Time, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • But Pullman’s abilities as a storyteller are stupendous, and on full display.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the work of EA’s extraordinary artists, designers, developers, storytellers, and innovator.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Until the attempt to muzzle Kimmel failed, giving satirists a new cause and fresh passion to pursue it.
    Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In the days following the podcast appearance, the author shared a parody by British satirist Intel Lady that characterizes Watson as contradictory and fame-hungry.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The minds behind Hocus Pocus 3 are brewing up a fresh potion of sisterly magic, screenwriter Jen D'Angelo exclusively tells EW.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This seems like a screenwriter’s fantasy, but Springsteen describes the moment in his book.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.
    Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025

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