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Recent Examples of novelist
More recently, Irish novelists Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan have had huge international success.
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Kathy Rose O'Brien, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
If Adichie the feminist-manifesto writer is comfortable dispensing advice in the form of shoulds and should nots, Adichie the novelist seems allergic to such judgments.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Morrison knew there wasn’t much of a precedent for a novelist writing a successful play.
—Elon Green, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
So having written journalistically for so long has facilitated your work as a novelist?
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2025
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Kathy Rose O'Brien, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
If Adichie the feminist-manifesto writer is comfortable dispensing advice in the form of shoulds and should nots, Adichie the novelist seems allergic to such judgments.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Morrison knew there wasn’t much of a precedent for a novelist writing a successful play.
—Elon Green, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
So having written journalistically for so long has facilitated your work as a novelist?
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
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Young Harper needs a story to sleep, but the storytellers can’t agree on how the story should go.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2025
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Minter is also a corporate strategist, a farmer, historian, storyteller, and HBCU advocate.—
Will Minter,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 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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More than a decade later, there’s still an essayist’s economy in Hunter’s writing.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 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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In his newest book, The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and his American Dream (Ecco), art critic and biographer Blake Gopnik—formerly a Newsweek reporter—brings Barnes and his collection to life.—
Blake Gopnik,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
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Franklin, an award-winning biographer, details how Frank’s legacy was formed, and sometimes deformed, by her father, Otto, who survived her.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 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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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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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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Oliver Stone, as the screenwriter of the Miami-set feature, is credited for writing the line.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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One of the buzziest screenwriters of 2024 is now giving back to the indie filmmaking community.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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