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Recent Examples of essayist
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.
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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
Simon Njami is an independent curator and a lecturer, art critic, and essayist.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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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
Simon Njami is an independent curator and a lecturer, art critic, and essayist.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Parti has been developing the six-part series for years, working with Imran Mahmood, a criminal barrister, novelist, and screenwriter.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026
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Back in Seoul, star novelist and No 1.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 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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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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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
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Adventures have taken children and parents from the Caribbean to India to Japan, bringing local storytellers, craftsmen, and guides into the narrative.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Robert Redford loved storytellers.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 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 satirist from Windham died following a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his ex-wife, Shelly Miles.—
Brian Niemietz,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his feature directorial debut with this, and his fingerprints are all over it, particularly his signature snappy dialogue.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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The jury of the new Perspectives section dedicated to first works is made up of Moroccan screenwriter and director Sofia Alaoui; German director and screenwriter Frédéric Hambalek; and Dorota Lech, director of Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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