novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist The writer, known for blending satire and social critique, lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the novelist Danzy Senna, and two children. Clare Fisher, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025 These digital archives, and the strange intimacy that produces them, are the subject of Searches, a new essay collection by the novelist and journalist Vauhini Vara. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025 Vara, a novelist and tech journalist, began experimenting with A.I. products in early 2021. Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025 Set in a quaint New England colonial town, Allie & Andi follows a best-selling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer to find the killer of a close friend. Denise Petski, Deadline, 7 Apr. 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
  • The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Years later, Cassandra burned the vast majority of her younger sister’s 3,000 letters, leaving only around 160 for the benefit of researchers, biographers and Janeites, as the author’s devotees are known.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Austen Ivereigh, Pope Francis' biographer, also told BBC News that coins minted during his papacy - one for each year of his 12-year tenure - will have been placed in a bag in his coffin.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Toward the end of our lunch, Henry mentions how one of his favorite playwrights is Tony Kushner.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Some playwrights are as musical with their words as jazz musicians.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 21 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
  • 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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