essayist
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The author is a Los Angeles–based novelist and essayist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
It’s one of the many issues he addresses in “Conversations on Faith,” written by Mr. Scorsese and Antonio Spadaro, an Italian Jesuit, theologian and essayist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
What the French essayist offers us “shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Whilst looking for an academic mentor in Oxford, Geisel was paired with the Scottish essayist Alexander Carlisle.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
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
“Palestine’s poets, scholars, novelists and journalists and essayists have risked everything, including their lives and the lives of their families, to share their words with the world,” the letter reads in part.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Among the nonfiction writers interviewed were such prominent journalists and essayists as Pete Hamill and Maureen Dowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Several essayists from the series note that family recipes often come with scant direction.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
PEN America is made up of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights and publishers.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
