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Recent Examples of essayist
Baxter, a fiction writer and essayist who has won two Minnesota Book Awards and is a former University of Minnesota professor of creative writing, calls for more poetry now.
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
—Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
—Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Series author and co-creator James Tynion IV is writing the book with horror novelist Kiersten White.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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The famous detective novelist and screenwriter had written an essay for the magazine excoriating the motion-picture industry and its tolerance for—indeed celebration of—mindless mediocrity.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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How the Script Walks a Tonal Tightrope Radcliffe credited playwrights Macmillan and Donahoe with building a structure that lets the performer pivot rapidly between the heavy and the silly.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
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The American playwright, director and author has spent years developing a body of work that refuses easy categorization, blending psychological tension, live experimental music, philosophy and raw urban storytelling into something that feels genuinely its own.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 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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The collaboration with Flanagan’s Red Room Pictures banner extends the studio’s partnership with one of the most commercially successful genre storytellers.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2026
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Hirokazu Kore-eda is a master storyteller whose work continues to define contemporary world cinema, while Tatsuki Fujimoto has emerged as one of the most impactful mangaka’s of the past decade.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Omar Badawy Omar is a comedian and satirist originally from Egypt.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 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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For Duprat, being an architect himself has, however, facilitated his work as a screenwriter.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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It is named for Walter Bernstein, an American screenwriter who was blacklisted during Hollywood’s Red Scare in the 1950s, and has only been given twice before.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/essayist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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