novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Lastly, My Roommate Is a Cat is the touching story of how a shy novelist named Mikazuki Subaru comes to live with a feline companion who was dumped by humans and lived a tough life on the streets. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025 The answer may or may not be English novelist Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague, the story of an epistolary friendship between several characters, including the book’s namesake. JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025 By Emily Bazelon The novelist anticipated our bizarre present. Astead W. Herndon Astead W. Herndon Emily Bazelon Parul Sehgal Andrew Ross Sorkin Kwame Anthony Appiah Lisa Donovan Julian Brave Noisecat John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Yet there’s a big difference between OpenAI and a novelist. Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • The common ingredients are incredible storytellers who are excited about trying to make a series that feels authentic and realistic, and maybe feels familiar, but in a way that also feels elevated and sophisticated.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The loveliest is that both books and gardens continue to bear fruit years after the storyteller and the gardener are long gone.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 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
  • The author, a naturally playful fabulist, is furloughed here into invention and free play.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • And, yes, this compulsive fabulist did in fact embezzle campaign funds from his own donors to fund a lavish lifestyle, did commit identity theft and did fraudulently collect pandemic unemployment benefits.
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 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
  • To reflect the current moment — when discrimination against not only the LGBTQ community but also the non-binary and transgender communities — is on the rise, playwright Lee rewrote parts of his 2022 play earlier this year in San Francisco.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025

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