fictionist

noun

Definition of fictionistnext
as in novelist

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  1. novelist
  2. storyteller
  3. fabulist
  4. essayist
  5. autobiographer
Noun
  • Another theatrical gem for 2025 is the transfer from the Royal Court to the Harold Pinter Theatre of Nicholas Hytner’s production of Mark Rosenblatt’s new play Giant, with John Lithgow reprising his blistering performance as novelist Roald Dahl.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Solovyov said, referring to the great-great grandson of novelist Leo Tolstoy.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of novelist
Noun
  • Or, depending on the storyteller, the room was too small.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The remaining proceeds will support storytellers who highlight these critical themes, inspiring positive change.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of storyteller
Noun
  • Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The House expelled the fabulist George Santos for a fabric of falsehoods, but his lies put no one’s life at risk.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of fabulist
Noun
  • Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Definition of essayist
Noun
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of autobiographer
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