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Wolfe, an inventive novelist and the father of New Journalism, is still widely read seven years after his death at the age of 88.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 June 2025
Protect the Mütter created a petition—signed by more than thirty thousand people, including Roach, the magician Penn Jillette, and the novelist Neil Gaiman—that called for the dismissal of Irons and Quinn, among other measures.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Dickens was encouraged by the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth to publish a collection of his articles, and Sketches by Boz, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, came out in 1836.
—Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
The Greenlandic novelist Niviaq Korneliussen, in whose writing the dramatic surge in suicides among Greenlanders plays a significant role, says the anger and shame that many Greenlanders felt as a result of Denmark’s modernization policies was transmitted to younger generations.
—Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 June 2025
Protect the Mütter created a petition—signed by more than thirty thousand people, including Roach, the magician Penn Jillette, and the novelist Neil Gaiman—that called for the dismissal of Irons and Quinn, among other measures.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Dickens was encouraged by the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth to publish a collection of his articles, and Sketches by Boz, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, came out in 1836.
—Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
The Greenlandic novelist Niviaq Korneliussen, in whose writing the dramatic surge in suicides among Greenlanders plays a significant role, says the anger and shame that many Greenlanders felt as a result of Denmark’s modernization policies was transmitted to younger generations.
—Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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