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Recent Examples of novelist
The film is based on a story that Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks conceived together.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Weil earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948 from the University of Chicago, where an encounter with the works of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in a literature survey course sparked an interest in Russian literature and culture.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Straub first chose The Noble Hustle, a nonfiction book from acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
That’s what has happened, this year, with the novelist Cameron Reed.
—Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Weil earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948 from the University of Chicago, where an encounter with the works of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in a literature survey course sparked an interest in Russian literature and culture.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Straub first chose The Noble Hustle, a nonfiction book from acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
That’s what has happened, this year, with the novelist Cameron Reed.
—Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
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He's got to be one of the most amazing storytellers that way.—
Martha Teichner,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Her first novel, In the Woods (2007), established her as a skilled storyteller who blends the elements of police procedurals and psychological thrillers with an engaging literary style.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Adam Roberts is a memoirist and essayist from Long Island who spent twenty-six years incarcerated in New York State.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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One of the first people to strongly encourage Crane to write the book was Joe Queenan, a prolific essayist and columnist for the Wall Street Journal.—
Annie Vainshtein,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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Adam Roberts is a memoirist and essayist from Long Island who spent twenty-six years incarcerated in New York State.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 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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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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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
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The Inside Story, royal biographer Robert Hardman wrote that the monarch was anxious about staying in Scotland as Liz Truss was appointed prime minister—a duty that was always carried out at Buckingham Palace in London.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
9 Apr. 2026
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As her health quietly declined in 2022, the late monarch focused not on ceremony, but on creating lasting moments with the youngest members of the royal family at Balmoral Castle, according to a new book by royal biographer Robert Hardman via The Daily Mail.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 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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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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