novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist The novelist was catapulted to worldwide fame when her spicy fantasy novel Fourth Wing — the first of five in her Empyrean series — became a bestselling sensation and one of the hottest reads of 2023. Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025 Each year, Austenites flock to locations all across southwest England, where the novelist spent most of her life. Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 17 Jan. 2025 Eighty years ago, the Jewish American novelist Laura Z. Hobson was contemplating her next writerly move and was seeking a little help from her friends. Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025 Yet all three novelists also refuse to narrate key moments of violence from the mind of a vacillating protagonist. Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for novelist 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
  • All grifters are storytellers, weaving fictions more seductive than reality.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • He is remembered most for being organized, a very hard worker, and a great storyteller.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Previous Picks Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead) Nonfiction For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom By Roger Rosenblatt Read On The Seasoned Traveler Enrique Olvera The Mexican chef behind Cosme and Pujol reveals his travel routine Read On Going Anywhere Soon?
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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
  • With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.
    Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With the world's richest man now joining President Trump at the White House, Elon Musk's biographer explains what drives the tech titan.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Why Biden abandoned human rights as a tenet of U.S. foreign policy will be a question for historians and biographers.
    Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The authority has invested in developing the island’s talented artists, dramatists, songwriters, dancers and filmmakers, as well as in establishing a year-round calendar of vibrant cultural events, including the unmissable Tobago Carnival in October.
    Tobago House of Assembly, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
    Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.
    James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025

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