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Recent Examples of essayist
Cyraina Johnson-Roullier is an associate professor of modern literature and literature of the Americas at the University of Notre Dame, as well as an author and essayist.
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Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
The essayist, novelist and farmer, 91, is interviewed off camera in the film, his deep, rumbling voice grounding the documentary with words of wisdom.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2026
The collaboration between the Hollywood actor and the celebrated essayist sounds like its own meet-cute, and the origin story is almost as entertaining as the book promises to be.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.
—Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
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Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
The essayist, novelist and farmer, 91, is interviewed off camera in the film, his deep, rumbling voice grounding the documentary with words of wisdom.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2026
The collaboration between the Hollywood actor and the celebrated essayist sounds like its own meet-cute, and the origin story is almost as entertaining as the book promises to be.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.
—Joy Williams, The Dial, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
Noun
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Shelby Van Pelt has had the kind of runaway literary success that every debut novelist dreams about.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Hokum starts at the end — not the end of the film’s plotline but the end of a story being written by novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott).—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Noun
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If a dozen new works over four days isn’t enough, try cramming 50 plays by 50 playwrights into a single day.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2026
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Under this rule, that fear might have been alleviated, allowing Mescal to campaign in lead for his turn as playwright William Shakespeare.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
1 May 2026
Noun
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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The dramatist’s mode is broader and brasher, calculated for the sweep of the stage rather than the close-up, with splashes of color and humor that can verge on camp.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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Jimbo is a storyteller and clown with a message of love, tolerance and acceptance.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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For Showalter, whose past work has rarely ventured this far into fear, the challenge will be sustaining a coherent tone without losing the emotional highs and lows that define Hoover as a storyteller.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Omar Badawy Omar is a comedian and satirist originally from Egypt.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2026
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John Heartfield, the pseudonym of German artist Helmut Herzfeld, was a leading photographic satirist who was fiercely opposed to Hitler and his Nazi party.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Michael Montemayor, the rising screenwriter with a growing social media following, has signed with CAA.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2026
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Kai Ko is separately working on a second directorial project with a new screenwriter and said the film would likely arrive in 2027 if the script comes together.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/essayist. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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