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Recent Examples of novelist
In these quietly stunning essays, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the daughter of an Army veteran and a schoolteacher, looks back on her upbringing in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
My father’s best friend was the novelist James Salter.
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
In addition to acting, Collins was also a novelist, authoring psychosexual thrillers Eye Contact and Double Exposure.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
Notably, the inscription does not mention her career as a novelist — an absence that has moved generations of readers who came to pay their respects.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
My father’s best friend was the novelist James Salter.
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
In addition to acting, Collins was also a novelist, authoring psychosexual thrillers Eye Contact and Double Exposure.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
Notably, the inscription does not mention her career as a novelist — an absence that has moved generations of readers who came to pay their respects.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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But as a storyteller, Barton is primarily interested in how pairs of people navigate the power dynamics between them (think of the personal and professional relationships throughout Barton’s previous series, Giri/Haji and Black Doves), and so his Amadeus reconfigures.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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Industry leaders will discuss stackable incentives, rebates, grants, and financing strategies, alongside resources supporting independent producers and emerging storytellers working in California.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
11 May 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
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Athena Nassar is an Egyptian American poet, essayist, and short-story writer.—
Athena Nassar,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.—
Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 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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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Musk disabled Starlink access within a hundred kilometers of the coast of Crimea in September 2022 in order to prevent an attack by Ukrainian drone submarines on the Russian Navy.—
Ben Tarnoff,
Big Think,
23 Apr. 2026
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Royal biographer Robert Hardman also sees a bit of Queen Elizabeth II in the young royal, who is the late monarch's great-granddaughter.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
12 Apr. 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 13 May. 2026.
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