novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist In 2024, the novelist David Peace released a book about the Busby Babes called Munichs. Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025 Follow up Before Night Falls (2000), starring Javier Bardem as Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas, won the Venice Grand Jury Prize. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025 Curtis will take on the role made iconic by the late Angela Lansbury, with Curtis starring as mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 July 2025 Festival pass, still paper, still $10. 1990: Songwriter, novelist and future political candidate Kinky Friedman gave the keynote. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • In a world that grows increasingly interconnected, the role of a creative storyteller is to bridge cultural divides while honoring the unique voices of each community.
    Colin Dougan, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The jury is made up of experienced filmmakers, storytellers and industry insiders, including Paton Oswalt, Fred Durst, Otessa Moshfegh, Aaron Schimberg, Mercedes Bryce, Brandon Hill and more.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • The essayist and Transcendentalist kingpin was impressed.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 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
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Ari Ben Menashe, a onetime Israeli operative whom Israeli and American officials have said is a fabulist who vastly exaggerates and fabricates, claims to have run Epstein as an asset.
    Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Royal biographer and commentator Phil Dampier told the Sun that Markle was more interested in fame and fortune.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In 2017, Baldwin’s papers were acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, giving biographers access to an extensive archive.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In 2024, Miranda collaborated with fellow playwright Eisa Davis on the musical project Warriors, a concept album themed after the 1979 film The Warriors.
    Katie Labovitz, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Closely | Opinion The celebrated Lebanese composer and playwright Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz, died suddenly on July 26.
    Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 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
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025

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