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Recent Examples of novelist
The Amazon founder shares three sons and one daughter with his ex-wife, philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
21 June 2026
Spencer went on to marry Raine, Countess of Dartmouth — her mother was the romantic fiction novelist Barbara Cartland, who showered Diana’s world with pulp romance.
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Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
James Lasdun’s new book, The Family Man, reckons with the Alex Murdaugh murder case, which the poet, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer covered for The New Yorker.
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The Week Us,
TheWeek,
17 June 2026
The South hasn’t had such an enthusiastic booster as Freddy since novelist Pat Conroy died.
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Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
21 June 2026
Spencer went on to marry Raine, Countess of Dartmouth — her mother was the romantic fiction novelist Barbara Cartland, who showered Diana’s world with pulp romance.
—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
James Lasdun’s new book, The Family Man, reckons with the Alex Murdaugh murder case, which the poet, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer covered for The New Yorker.
—
The Week Us,
TheWeek,
17 June 2026
The South hasn’t had such an enthusiastic booster as Freddy since novelist Pat Conroy died.
—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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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.
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The galleries were connected through a series of routes led by curators and notable arts figures, including Lauren Cuthbertson, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, and memoirist Alice Hattrick.
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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.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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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.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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In addition to Burns at Columbia, Rand and her group were instrumental in helping hone Greenspan's capitalist, free-market economic philosophy, according to Martin, Greenspan's biographer.
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The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.
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Use a playwright as company in a room that had previously seemed uninhabitable.
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The Tony-winning playwright, whose works include Take Me Out and The Assembled Parties, died of cancer in 2025 at 67.
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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