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Recent Examples of novelist
Silverberg, the facilitator of Becky’s Book Club, is also a novelist and comedian and has worked for Literary Affairs for five years.
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Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is offered the opportunity of a lifetime when Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett), the husband of paralyzed novelist Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), invites her to finish Verity’s series of novels.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2026
The series stars and is executive produced by Shields, who plays Allie, a bestselling novelist drawn into a murder investigation in a small New England town.
—Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Agatha Christie, the best-selling fiction novelist of all time, likely did, too, based on her personal writings.
—Ann Bullock, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
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Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is offered the opportunity of a lifetime when Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett), the husband of paralyzed novelist Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), invites her to finish Verity’s series of novels.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2026
The series stars and is executive produced by Shields, who plays Allie, a bestselling novelist drawn into a murder investigation in a small New England town.
—Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Agatha Christie, the best-selling fiction novelist of all time, likely did, too, based on her personal writings.
—Ann Bullock, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
Noun
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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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In print, the author and essayist has written about Banu Mushtaq’s literary rebellion.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2026
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Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.—
Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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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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For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Rather than go full creator in his commutation push, the fabulist opted for a less viral form of media: newspaper op-eds, placing them in The South Shore Press, a Long Island rag.—
Andrew Zucker,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Musk disabled Starlink access within a hundred kilometers of the coast of Crimea in September 2022 in order to prevent an attack by Ukrainian drone submarines on the Russian Navy.—
Ben Tarnoff,
Big Think,
23 Apr. 2026
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Royal biographer Robert Hardman also sees a bit of Queen Elizabeth II in the young royal, who is the late monarch's great-granddaughter.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
12 Apr. 2026
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The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2020
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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