novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Stories by novelists such as Dmitrij Kapitelman, Lena Gorelik, Marina Frenk and Dana Vowinckel also depict moments of connection between Jews and other Germans, or between Jews and Muslims. Agnes Mueller, The Conversation, 18 June 2025 Paul Bradley Carr, a tech journalist turned Palm Springs bookstore owner and novelist, takes that possibility a step further in this provocative thriller by centering the action on StoicAI’s LLIAM, an AI algorithm that has become indispensable in everyday life. Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025 The filmmakers’ background as novelists steers their world toward Stephen King territory, occasionally to its detriment. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 June 2025 Veteran screenwriter and novelist Kazuki Nakashima penned the screenplay, with character designs by Takashi Okazaki and music by Yugo Kanno. Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Director Giovanna Sardelli is a terrific storyteller, and in this case, her artistry works hand-to-glove with Nina Ball’s beautifully rustic scenic design.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Since then, he’s opted to help provide a platform for newer indie storytellers, and Ponyboi star-screenwriter River Gallo is the latest example of that intention.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • How Iran might strike back, by Colin P. Clarke, guest essayist, The New York Times.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 June 2025
  • 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.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
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
  • Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling, Kezilahabi’s novel asks moral questions about parents’ responsibilities and the effects of women’s liberation, sparing no one but withholding final judgment.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • In 2010, Beatty’s biographer Peter Biskind estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275, according to The Guardian.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • In addition to that, biographers have had to to sift through the myths Dylan has built up about his life story.
    Andrew Demillo, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 21 June 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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