novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Over 10 days, formerly successful romance novelist Frances must cast aside her skepticism and immerse herself in the intriguing guests and hosts at Tranquillum House. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025 Trumbo and [novelists] Howard Fast and Dashiell Hammett went to jail. Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025 Not to be outdone by a novelist, I, the poet in our friendship, stayed up all night and wrote him a poem in response to that phrase. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025 Once a favorite haunt of celebrities, including the novelist Graham Greene, who authored the 1966 classic The Comedians, the Oloffson, like other institutions in downtown Port-au-Prince, has become a no man’s land because of the escalating gang assaults. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
  • And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.
    Stephanie Long, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
  • She’s been an opinion writer here at The Times (from 2005 to 2016) and a personal essayist of sometimes provocative proclivities for decades.
    Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Royal biographer Ingrid Seward told PEOPLE at the time that Prince Andrew would have talked through the matter with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, as well as his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who have all been protective and loyal to him throughout years of public scrutiny.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • His dedication continued even after Tesla achieved widespread success; for example, biographer Walter Isaacson wrote in 2023 that Musk would regularly visit Tesla’s Palo Alto office and have impromptu discussions with engineers working on Tesla’s Autopilot feature.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
    Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025

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