as in storyteller
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Recent Examples of novelist
She was born in 1947, the daughter of a schoolteacher and the famous novelist Osamu Dazai.
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Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
And readers can take comfort in knowing that, today, Christensen, a former Vanity Fair colleague who now works at The New York Times Book Review, and her husband, the novelist Gabriel Bump, have a healthy baby.
—Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
The author, whose 2022 book follows an English professor’s entanglements with a young novelist, will publish Diana through Avid Reader Press in spring 2026.
—Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
After the philosophers, the historians and the political commentators came the novelists.
—Margie Burns, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
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Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
And readers can take comfort in knowing that, today, Christensen, a former Vanity Fair colleague who now works at The New York Times Book Review, and her husband, the novelist Gabriel Bump, have a healthy baby.
—Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
The author, whose 2022 book follows an English professor’s entanglements with a young novelist, will publish Diana through Avid Reader Press in spring 2026.
—Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
After the philosophers, the historians and the political commentators came the novelists.
—Margie Burns, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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Planes, rockets, and the spaces in between (2018) – at the time, the largest painting executed by Amy Sherald – was some three years in the making after the master painter and storyteller of the contemporary African American experience in the United States stretched the massive canvas.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Still, memory is the theme of several poetic passages of dialogue between Ren and her lover, and, as a professional storyteller, her personal experiences inevitably shape her work.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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James, written by author and professor Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman took home the award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics, while There's Always This Year written and narrated by poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib took home Best Non-Fiction.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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 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
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With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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That lets a biographer build a picture with real subtlety, complexity and accuracy.—
Meredith Wolf Schizer,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
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The billionaire Peter Thiel has been compared to Dugin by the latter’s biographer.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
19 Mar. 2025
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With offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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Heart, humor, and hurt combine in the playwright's (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) real-life tale of growing up caught in the crossfire between his traumatized mother (Jeanine Serralles) and eccentric/alcoholic grandmother (a sublime Joanna Gleason).—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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Feldman and Green joined Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen and the film’s screenwriter, Chris Columbus, for Ke Huy Quan’s hand and footprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 3.—
John Russell,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Zoe Saunders An aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, Saunders has been involved in her school’s theatre productions.—
Alexa Dikos,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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