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Recent Examples of novelist
The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past.
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Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
Produced by James Ivory, this movie is about American novelist Olivia (Kalki Koechlin) who returns to her grandmother’s French village in search of inspiration.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
More attention was falling on the FBI to combat what seemed to be a sensationalist epidemic of serial killers, and though the exact year was unclear, somewhere around that time Ressler was notified that there was a novelist, Thomas Harris, who wanted to speak with him.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Hollywood was also in attendance, as novelist Emma Cline introduced me to comedian Nathan Fielder, who was sitting at a table with Salle.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
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Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
Produced by James Ivory, this movie is about American novelist Olivia (Kalki Koechlin) who returns to her grandmother’s French village in search of inspiration.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
More attention was falling on the FBI to combat what seemed to be a sensationalist epidemic of serial killers, and though the exact year was unclear, somewhere around that time Ressler was notified that there was a novelist, Thomas Harris, who wanted to speak with him.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Hollywood was also in attendance, as novelist Emma Cline introduced me to comedian Nathan Fielder, who was sitting at a table with Salle.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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Martinson will unpack her journey as part of the next generation of African storytellers shaping the future of the continent’s cinema as a JBX Talks panellist at this week’s 8th Joburg Film Festival in South Africa.—
Thinus Ferreira,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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This content displays an evolution of Robinson’s is work as a storyteller.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.—
Joy Williams,
The Dial,
3 Mar. 2026
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In 1989, at Dartmouth College, the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky delivered what must be one of the strangest commencement addresses of all time (and definitely one of the most Russian).—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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But on February 27, fans saw a new side of the memoirist and actor.—
Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Feb. 2026
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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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
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Her story remains fractured—saint, prophet, brand, fabulist—but her status as one of modernism’s most disruptive figures is secure.—
Alice Gregory,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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Countering the narrative presented by Harry in his memoir Spare, royal biographer Robert Lacy wrote that there was more drama behind Markle’s wedding tiara selection than had previously been disclosed.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026
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Over the past 24 years, Susan Claassen, who co-wrote the play with Head biographer Paddy Calistro, has performed the show around the country more than 1,500 times.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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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 9 Mar. 2026.
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