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Recent Examples of novelist
At the center of this chaos is Taye Diggs as Harper, a successful novelist, whose friendships served as inspiration for his book and who is torn between the one that got away (Nia Long) and a great new girl (Sanaa Lathan).
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New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
When novelist Allegra Goodman introduces the clan, Jeanne is dying; at the book’s end, the family has assembled for Charlie’s bris.
—Clare McHugh, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2026
That novelist’s precision is embedded in every beat of the screenplay, which values rhythm and implication over exposition.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
The novelist Naomi Alderman recently wrote about how the thing that keeps drawing us back to our phones is actually a misdirected desire to learn.
—Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
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New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
When novelist Allegra Goodman introduces the clan, Jeanne is dying; at the book’s end, the family has assembled for Charlie’s bris.
—Clare McHugh, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2026
That novelist’s precision is embedded in every beat of the screenplay, which values rhythm and implication over exposition.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
The novelist Naomi Alderman recently wrote about how the thing that keeps drawing us back to our phones is actually a misdirected desire to learn.
—Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
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Then there are the charismatic storytellers.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
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Mary is one of the most experienced Olympic commentators ever and a master storyteller.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 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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Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 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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Popular memoirist Terry Martin Hekker died on October 20 at the age of 92.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 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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David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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His biographer, Halldór Guðmundsson, states that Rome always worked on him like a drug.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 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 14 Feb. 2026.
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