novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Fortunately, the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany has been methodically recording thousands of writers’ events since 1983, when it was founded by the novelist William Kennedy. Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026 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, 14 Apr. 2026 So said American novelist Wallace Stegner in the 1980s, and guess what – the country’s people still seem to agree. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026 The film is based on a story that Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks conceived together. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for novelist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
  • This session will examine how regional markets leverage policy, tax incentives, workforce development, and public-private collaboration to build sustainable creative economies that expand access and opportunity for Black storytellers.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Mayor Andre Dickens announced the launch of the Atlanta Culture House, a space that will bring together artists, performers and storytellers in the heart of downtown.
    Christopher Harris, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The latter book was Straub's favorite piece of work from the late director and essayist.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sara Wheeler is an award-winning and bestselling travel writer and biographer.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Royal biographer Robert Hardman also sees a bit of Queen Elizabeth II in the young royal, who is the late monarch's great-granddaughter.
    Emma Banks, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026
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

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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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