novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist In the second episode, set in Dublin, the very proper Timothea (Cate Blanchett) and the independent-minded Lilith (Vicky Krieps) drive separately for their annual high tea with their successful novelist mother (Charlotte Rampling). Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2025 In the Victorian era, opal got cancelled, in part, because the novelist Sir Walter Scott created a character who died while wearing one. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025 In 2004, Caught Stealing was written by novelist Charlie Huston and thus became the source of material for Aronofsky in his movie distributed by Sony Pictures. Malik Peay, Essence, 27 Aug. 2025 Echegui’s career also saw her star in 2009's Bunny and the Bull alongside The Great British Baking Show host Noel Fielding and the 2022 Prime Video romcom Book of Love with Sam Claflin, playing the Mexican translator for Claflin’s British novelist. Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Browse Newsletters These days, every influencer and brand consultant seems to want to call themselves a storyteller.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At Gensler, our studios, designers, strategists, and storytellers — from Shanghai to San Francisco, London to Los Angeles — are embracing AI with curiosity and purpose.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As an essayist, Dasgupta has contributed to distinguished outlets such as Harper’s, Granta, and The New Statesman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 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
  • However, some reports have suggested that B intimated to the biographer that the singer's bandmates and his best friend, Mary Austin, had been aware of her existence.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 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
  • Today, with talk of a second Oscar nomination, the actor slips into a fatherly role in Hamnet playing the legendary playwright William Shakespeare, based on Maggie O'Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This Boston run will feature playwright Ins Choi in the title role, the family father running his Toronto store at the crossroads of two cultures and generations.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 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

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