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Recent Examples of fictionist
As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictionist
Noun
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Braun had an unlikely poetic ally in the mystery novelist Dorothy Sayers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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On April 20th, Alex Sinclair, a novelist and part-time lecturer in Jewish education at Hebrew University, was typing away on his laptop at his favorite café in the city of Modi’in.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Noun
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And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.—
Lin Cherry,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Noun
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Ali Raz is a fiction writer, essayist, and author of the collaborative poetry project Human Tetris and the novella Alien.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.—
Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
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The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2020
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.—
Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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