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Recent Examples of novelist
Then there’s poet and novelist Ocean Vuong, whose appearance on the show in 2025 was like a supernova.
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Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
The Nobel-prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) go on an unsentimental journey in 1949 through West and East Germany in Pawel Pawlikowski’s damn-near perfect period piece Fatherland.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
In 1963, Roberts married novelist William Goyen.
—Rachel Flynn, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
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Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
The Nobel-prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) go on an unsentimental journey in 1949 through West and East Germany in Pawel Pawlikowski’s damn-near perfect period piece Fatherland.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
In 1963, Roberts married novelist William Goyen.
—Rachel Flynn, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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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
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 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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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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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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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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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 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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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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