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Recent Examples of fictioneer
The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.
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James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictioneer
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To adapt the play, Preminger hired the great screenwriter and novelist Graham Greene, who Preminger felt would add meaning and emotional investment to the project given his Catholicism.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2026
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Rankin is a celebrated visual artist whose works take pride of place in both public and private collections around the world; Brett is a novelist, poet, and essayist whose writing has been widely published.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
26 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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Created in 1972 by veteran voice actor June Foray, the Annie Awards recognize the animation industry’s most talented artists and storytellers.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2026
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Hassan Herzallah is a Palestinian storyteller, writer, and translator based in Gaza, currently in his fourth year studying English translation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Her story remains fractured—saint, prophet, brand, fabulist—but her status as one of modernism’s most disruptive figures is secure.—
Alice Gregory,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
23 Feb. 2026
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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
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Popular memoirist Terry Martin Hekker died on October 20 at the age of 92.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Fictioneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictioneer. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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