novelist

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Recent Examples of novelist Outside information is increasingly available: these days, for example, nearly every major book that is published (including those by Israeli novelists) is almost immediately translated into Persian. Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025 This is a story that just grew, like stories do with novelists. Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025 When the teens travel to Capri for a summer getaway, Parthenope develops a chance bond with one of her favorite authors, real-life novelist John Cheever, played by Gary Oldman. Mike Miller, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025 On Boxing Day, 2022, Kureishi, a novelist and screenwriter, experienced an accident that left him tetraplegic. The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist
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Noun
  • Instead, Larson will win it behind the strength of Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR — setting him up for another championship-contending Cup season and leaving all motorsport storytellers despondent, wondering what could’ve been.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The writer of the issue was Peter David, a prolific genre storyteller whose own father fled the Nazis and who would later take to his website to compare the first Trump administration to Hitler.
    Darren Franich, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
    Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Lilly Milman, Vox, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Alloway is co-adapting the feature with playwright Lily Houghton off the latter’s play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Steppenwolf Theatre Company ranks as one of the nation’s premier ensemble theater companies with 49 members who are among the top actors, playwrights and directors in the field.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • At the same time, depicting a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head covering, or a hijab, also posed challenges, even for screenwriter Marianna Ölmez, herself a Muslim, Verhoef added.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Much of the context for Ko Gyeom’s motivations are held for later episodes, which is emblematic of screenwriter Lee Na-eun’s (Our Beloved Summer) signature slow-pace structure.
    Kayti Burt, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025

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