essayist
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Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
A widely published essayist and commentator, he is the author of five books, most recently “The Religious Revolution: The Making of Modern Spirituality, 1848-98.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“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
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