novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist The novelist Adam Johnson is not a writer of that doggedly persistent kind. Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025 Yet there’s a big difference between OpenAI and a novelist. Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025 The novelist Harold Brodkey witnessed a symptomatic scene. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip. Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
  • Part of being a good storyteller is knowing which stories should be told and which might be better kept in the drafts.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Sharp, talented, a compelling storyteller, Wahl would go on to graduate from Princeton to become Sports Illustrated’s premier soccer reporter, as well as a champion for women’s sports.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Soyinka, born on 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a renowned playwright, poet, essayist and public intellectual.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel does not say exactly that.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 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
  • Some very conservative biographer writes a biography of Ronald Reagan and some very liberal historian rights a biography of Reagan.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
  • At the same time, President Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley compared Ingrassia to the Democratic nominee to become Virginia’s next attorney general, Jay Jones.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 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
  • Teller took to heart the classic Greek playwright Aristophanes’ myth of love — that humans were born as a fusion of two bodies and later separated as punishment from the gods, only to spend their lives looking — and longing — for their other half.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Stage directors and performers have attempted to excavate and animate that ambiguity, first dreamed up by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, for over a century.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 29 Oct. 2025

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