How to Use novelist in a Sentence

novelist

noun

• This doubt—about the role of the novelist—is as much the center of Smith’s book as the trial.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• When the past revolves around a gaping wound, a novelist must give shape to the void.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Cook went on to become a teacher and a novelist, and died last year at the age of 95.
  — Rebecca Dube, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Closer to home, at least for Eliza, the frauds are novelists.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Knives Out follows the death of the crime novelist, Harlan Thrombey.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• This fact wasn’t lost on the freelance writer and novelist.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• The show is based on a book trilogy by the Chinese novelist Liu Cixin.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• Among the fascinated readers is Sarah, the young fiancée of the novelist William Ainsworth.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Her book features the story of the late novelist Toni Morrison.
  — Matt Button, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2023
• The novelist returned to Tokyo and, along with his wife, approved the operation.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• Saddam himself was a hit man in his 20s and a prolific novelist in his 60s.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• The novelist appeared to be in distress, the eyewitness noted.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
• The novelist Ben Okri followed him into the hallway and reassured him.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London, two years before John le Carré, the novelist to whom he is often compared.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Crime novelist Don Winslow is the best-selling author of the Cartel trilogy and Savages.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• The young screenwriter wanted very much to impress the older novelist.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Confidential novelist James Ellroy, the movie attempts to capture the tensions of the city at its breaking point.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• The guest services agent from Tennessee won on a question about novelist John Grisham.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• In it, Smith inserts a small photo of the novelist into the upper-left-hand corner of a scene of thunderheads over the Manhattan skyline.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Vallejo, who is also a novelist and whose book includes passages of memoir and reflection, is torn about the gifts and costs of parchment.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• In the meantime, Hoffs is super-excited to talk about her new album and life as an official first-time novelist.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2023
• Richardson demonstrates that James and his brother, novelist Henry James, were greatly affected by the death of their sparkling 24-year-old cousin.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
• Amis was often cited among the greatest British authors of the 20th century, and rose to stardom as one of the most celebrated novelists of his time.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 May 2023
• The cause of death is undetermined, according to his close friend, novelist Akhil Sharma.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Robert Parker died a dozen years ago, but his Spenser mysteries live on under the pen of novelist and sports journalist Mike Lupica.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2024
• What do these celebrities—an actor, a novelist, and arguably the greatest basketball player of all time—have in common?
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
• Perhaps fittingly, the greatest novelist in the language during the peak of the Modernist novel wasn’t German at all: Kafka.
  — Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• In her latest book, the crime novelist Tana French dispenses almost entirely with the elements of her genre.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• His most recent article was a profile of the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov.
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024