ESSAYIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

essayist

noun

Definition of essayist

as in novelist

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Recent Examples of essayist Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026 There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 Senna is a novelist and essayist. — Time, 27 May 2026 Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review. — Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for essayist

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Noun

Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and winner of the prestigious Forward poetry prize for his collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Lee Child — the novelist who created this most quintessentially ‘Merican of heroes — isn’t merely an Englishman, but a Commander of the Order of the British Empire!

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of novelist

Noun

Tarp, who has also worked as a playwright, helmed Getting to That Age after another previous short, her debut Bark starring Monica Potter, Alfonso Caballero and Jennifer Sherer.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
An Atlanta playwright is bringing her work to the stage as part of the SheATL Summer Theater Festival.

— Donald Fountain, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

One of Gary Graves’ biggest strengths as a dramatist is that nary a word feels wasteful when written by him.

— Charles Lewis III, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

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
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

Definition of pamphleteer

Noun

Throughout the first twenty years of our history as digital storytellers, family-life representation has continued on the same trajectory that started with the fantasy-family home videos first made by amateur filmmakers in the 1920s and ’30s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, leaving behind a titanic legacy as a cultural storyteller who introduced viewers and readers to much more than a good meal.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of storyteller

Noun

Hui was a leading figure in the Hong Kong New Wave as a director, screenwriter and producer, making her directing debut with The Secret in 1979.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Anna Juul is a screenwriter and novelist, satirist and board member with the Danish Mental Health Fund.

— Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of screenwriter

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