novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Other guests are people Freud has never previously met or mere acquaintances, such as the novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard, who described his teen-age reaction to his father’s wardrobe makeover. Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Talking to Bill Nighy about his star turn as a frail and at times broken novelist in & Sons is rather hampered by the British actor not having seen director Pablo Trapero’s father-and-son drama on a screen of any size ahead of its world premiere on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 Coffey has directed and co-written with novelist Blair Mastbaum. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 In the second episode, set in Dublin, the very proper Timothea (Cate Blanchett) and the independent-minded Lilith (Vicky Krieps) drive separately for their annual high tea with their successful novelist mother (Charlotte Rampling). Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Ayisha Miracle Mendez is a strategic community builder, storyteller, and connector with 5 years of experience spanning marketing, editorial, and corporate disciplines.
    Ayisha Miracle Mendez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Science fiction didn't begin with blockbuster films or sleek space operas — it was born in the pages of literature, where bold thinkers and master storytellers pushed the boundaries of imagination.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As an essayist, Dasgupta has contributed to distinguished outlets such as Harper’s, Granta, and The New Statesman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.
    Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Royal biographer Penny Junor also compared Kate to Philip in an interview with the Daily Mail.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2025
  • However, some reports have suggested that B intimated to the biographer that the singer's bandmates and his best friend, Mary Austin, had been aware of her existence.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • British screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, best known for Adolescence and His Dark Materials, has been elected president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The White Lotus star first crossed paths with the Pulitzer-winning playwright while working on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With No One Gets To Fall Apart, LaBrie’s memoir writing solidifies her as a powerful memorialist.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022

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