the literati

noun

: educated people who know about and are interested in literature
a new novelist who has been embraced by the literati

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For the literati, by the literati Born in 1892 in Aspen, Colorado, Ross worked out west as a reporter while still a teenager. — Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025 Throughout the 20th century, while historical fiction produced plenty of bestsellers, the literati tended, with grudging exceptions, to look down upon historical fiction as middlebrow escapism. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023

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