prosaist

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Noun
  • Dora Prieto is a Mexican-Canadian poet and translator based in the Bay Area as a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
    © Adri Montes, Hazlitt, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Adapted by playwright David Farr from spy master John le Carré's 1993 novel of the same name, the April 2016 AMC series earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe star a Golden Globe for best actor in a limited series, and fueled discussion around Hiddleston as a potential James Bond.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The author, director and screenwriter grew up in a Chinese immigrant household, moving around the United States frequently throughout her childhood.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Volpe, who studied at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, has established herself as both a director and screenwriter.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
  • On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world.
    Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.
    Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
  • This gripping book about the short, daring life of the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe makes an eloquent case for his work’s beauty and sly unorthodoxy.
    Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • One diehard fan in attendance that afternoon: John Mellencamp, bard of Indiana, who's been going to Hoosier games ever since his father took him as a kid.
    Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.
    Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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