literati

The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

What was supporting the grand mansions and the literati in England in the middle of the 19th century?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

He supped at half-past nine with his favorite literati, and at twelve the king went to bed.—Communication from David Vedder, in the Glasgow Citizen.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all his poverty, his neuroses, he saw life more wholly than perhaps any other literatus of his time.

From Time Magazine Archive

British critics have just discovered "a major dramatist" who turns out to be that old literatus of the libido, David Herbert Lawrence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The artist who confines himself to copying from models painted by his master, fares no better than a literatus who cannot rise above transcribing others' compositions.

From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Cicely Margaret Powell Binyon