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Recent Examples of fictionist
As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictionist
Noun
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How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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American critic and novelist Susan Sontag had her as a likely future contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Jimbo is a storyteller and clown with a message of love, tolerance and acceptance.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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For Showalter, whose past work has rarely ventured this far into fear, the challenge will be sustaining a coherent tone without losing the emotional highs and lows that define Hoover as a storyteller.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Rather than go full creator in his commutation push, the fabulist opted for a less viral form of media: newspaper op-eds, placing them in The South Shore Press, a Long Island rag.—
Andrew Zucker,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2026
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Megan O’Grady is a critic and an essayist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2020
Noun
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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
Noun
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Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.—
Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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