amanuensis

In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018

For its first foray into the mini-books market, Dutton is reissuing four young-adult novels, available individually or in a boxed set, by the blockbuster amanuensis of adolescent yearning John Green.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2018

When Plath wasn’t banging on about Hughes’s virility, “his health and hugeness,” she waxed ecstatic about the pleasures of “domesticalia” and of serving as Hughes’s amanuensis and literary agent.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

Both George and William are confidentially employed by Tresham as amanuenses, in transcribing religious, or treasonable, treatises of the time.

From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by George Blacker Morgan

Thirty amanuenses had been employed in copying MSS. and illuminating them by the finest art.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

Impressing the services of Smith and his wife as amanuenses, Brett despatched the requisite letters before he retired for the night.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

There is also the uncertain element that may possibly be due to the use of different amanuenses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various