How to Use novelist in a Sentence

novelist

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  • This doubt—about the role of the novelist—is as much the center of Smith’s book as the trial.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When the past revolves around a gaping wound, a novelist must give shape to the void.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Cook went on to become a teacher and a novelist, and died last year at the age of 95.
    — Rebecca Dube, NBC News, 12 July 2023
  • Closer to home, at least for Eliza, the frauds are novelists.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The book contains all the portents of the novelist readers would come to know.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Knives Out follows the death of the crime novelist, Harlan Thrombey.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle.
    — Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Her friend Kathy Lette, an Australian novelist, said the cause was leukemia.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This fact wasn’t lost on the freelance writer and novelist.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In the 10-part series, Coel will star as a British novelist named Henri.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Such is the case with the acclaimed poet and novelist John Kenney.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The show is based on a book trilogy by the Chinese novelist Liu Cixin.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The novelist rings at the door and spirits you off; the essayist invites herself in.
    — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Among the fascinated readers is Sarah, the young fiancée of the novelist William Ainsworth.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Coel will star as British novelist Henri, who is stuck.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2024
  • That is the usual job of mothers, and also of novelists—to describe us and so encase us.
    — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
  • Roth had friends who were loyal to the end — Zweig, the novelist Soma Morgenstern.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Her book features the story of the late novelist Toni Morrison.
    — Matt Button, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The novelist returned to Tokyo and, along with his wife, approved the operation.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That’s why the Regency-era novelist is so entwined with the hotel’s lore.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • Saddam himself was a hit man in his 20s and a prolific novelist in his 60s.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The novelist Sigrid Nunez also worked there, just prior to the publication of her first book, and the two became friends, chatting in the break room and on trains home.
    — Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
  • By his side, Caracas finds a grand old man, a novelist who wanders with him into the depths of the Neapolitan underworld.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The novelist appeared to be in distress, the eyewitness noted.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The novelist Ben Okri followed him into the hallway and reassured him.
    — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Cabaret is based on the book Goodbye to Berlin by gay novelist Christopher Isherwood.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 25 July 2024
  • Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London, two years before John le Carré, the novelist to whom he is often compared.
    — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Crime novelist Don Winslow is the best-selling author of the Cartel trilogy and Savages.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The movie follows novelist Andrea, who heads to her family’s farmhouse to finish her latest book.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024

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