essayist

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The author is a Los Angeles–based novelist and essayist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

It pounced upon the coincidence that James Joyce, the Dada poet and essayist Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich in 1917.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

According to his one-time adviser, the veteran essayist and confidant of presidents Alain Minc, Macron "must now go down as the worst president of the Fifth Republic".

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady