novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Blanks in the historical record such as these are irresistible to a novelist! Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 June 2025 The sisters include the British novelist Nancy Freeman-Mitford, who wrote about the upper crust. Nina Metz, Mercury News, 5 June 2025 The show, based on true events first reported in the podcast Firebug, was written and developed by Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River novelist Dennis Lehane. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025 The novelists’ parents were Patrick and Maria Brontë, an Irish clergyman and a Cornish gentlewoman who married in 1812. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Dante is a masterful storyteller and unflinching in his recollections.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • Comedian, storyteller and public speaker Ali Siddiq is on the way to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with his In the Shadows tour stop on Dec. 20.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss.
    Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Texan outlaw John Wesley Hardin, on the other hand, was no fabulist.
    Paul Begala, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • White worked for the infamous InfoWars media site run by fabulist Alex Jones.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Those editorials were disgracefully wrong, but Buckley had changed by the 1960s, as WFB biographer Alvin Felzenberg has recounted at length and Tanenhaus acknowledges in the book.
    The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
  • The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 5.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Now, a living playwright can be both a blessing and a curse.
    Sarah Paulson, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • Roberts also included a couple of snapshots of Richardson enjoying the party alongside the partygoers, including Danielle Brooks, Purpose producer Debra Martin Chase and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 3 June 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
Noun
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025

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