novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Harper, June 10 Image King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby The best-selling Southern crime novelist returns with a gripping story about a finance manager who, while visiting his injured father in Virginia, becomes slowly ensnared in his brother’s dangerous dealings with a vicious drug syndicate. Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025 Two decades passed before the novelist would go into business with MGM and upstart Hulu to make the series. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025 The Instagram post had already tallied more than 200 messages of support and goodwill toward the popular novelist. Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 13 May 2025 The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Dante is a masterful storyteller and unflinching in his recollections.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • Comedian, storyteller and public speaker Ali Siddiq is on the way to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with his In the Shadows tour stop on Dec. 20.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss.
    Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 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
  • White worked for the infamous InfoWars media site run by fabulist Alex Jones.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But a new book Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors written by royal biographer Tom Bower is, perhaps, shedding more light on some of the royal dynamics than we’re usually used to.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 30 May 2025
  • According to Wright biographer David Hanks, this interest in the total environment led him to create select clothing as well.
    Carrie Hojnicki, Architectural Digest, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Wright is a playwright, screenwriter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, among other notable works.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 May 2025
  • Later on, the English playwright Noël Coward and his partner John C. Wilson, a Broadway producer, owned the stately spread, and over the years, several stars of screen and stage used Pebbles as a summer getaway, including Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Richard Rodgers.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 May 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
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025

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