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Recent Examples of novelist Yesterday’s state House hearing included testimony from TV psychologist Dr. Phil and novelist John Grisham. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024 Campbell and his collaborator, Elaine Owens, raise comparisons to the documentary photography of the New Deal era, particularly the photographs of the novelist Eudora Welty, who shot for the Works Progress Administration. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 With the first of Chu’s two big-screen adaptation hitting theaters Nov. 22, Grande and Erivo, 37, are among the newest guests joining to discuss the Tony-winning Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman musical inspired by novelist Gregory Maguire’s version of Oz. Jack Smart, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell has teamed up with novelist Ari Surdoval to write a memoir, Heartbreaker, which will be released on March 18, 2025. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for novelist 
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Noun
  • Earlier this year, on July 13th, the sonic storyteller took over one of the largest stages at one of the biggest music festivals in Serbia, Exit Festival.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Read more Christa Joanna Lee is a writer, editor, and storyteller across editorial and brand spaces.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The latter film looks at a seminal period in the life of James Baldwin, the extraordinary essayist, novelist and playwright who was born 100 years ago this year.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
    Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
  • Still, for Beyoncé the filmmaker and autobiographer, one narrative-building feat seems to remain out of reach.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Based on Daniel Wallace’s novel, the movie stars Ewan McGregor as a boyish fabulist and Billy Crudup as his son who, years later, tries to understand who his father really was.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Yet, in trying to save her from being an appurtenance of Voltaire’s, her biographer disembodies her a little.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Gwenda Blair, a longtime Trump biographer, noted the Garden is associated with rock stars, celebrities and fighters – playing into the larger-than-life image Trump cultivates.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • As if the venue weren’t gay enough, literati from playwright Jeremy O. Harris to Evan Ross Katz — the social-media-age Cindy Adams — are in attendance to toast the film.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For now, screenwriters and novelists aren’t at risk of losing their jobs.
    Haoran Chu, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Littman and Captain Phillips screenwriter Billy Ray have been organizing a phone bank in Westwood on Sunday.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024

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