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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
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Published in 2020, Beach Read is a romantic comedy following January Andrews, a successful romance novelist who struggles with grief and writer’s block after her father’s death and the discovery of secrets he’s long kept hidden.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
28 May 2026
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His favorite author is young adult novelist Alan Gratz, favorite food is beef stroganoff and favorite school subject is math.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
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Her approach of looking at the world through the lens of a non-linear storyteller felt not only timely but essential to understanding a global cultural landscape outside traditional institutional frameworks.—
Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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My life, my choices and roles, my skillsets as a producer, director, writer, comic book creator, vodcaster, storyteller of the year, my politics, my company, Color Farm Media, the impact, my partnerships, my collaboration, my future all speaks to this.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
6 June 2026
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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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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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
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Kramer, a playwright and essayist who had been covering AIDS since the beginning through journalism, had co-founded the non-profit Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1982.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
3 June 2026
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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
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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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Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
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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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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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