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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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Channelling this voice allows for the sort of gutsy, big-hearted romp that’s unusual even for a first-time novelist.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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Scott is a novelist Over the course of her career, Scott has published two books.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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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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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
Noun
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May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
7 Jan. 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
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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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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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Also this week, George McNally, son of legendary restaurateur, memoirist and Instagram raconteur Keith McNally, will open his first restaurant.—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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