litterateur

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First published in 1888, Henry James’s “The Aspern Papers” tells of a littérateur who goes to Venice in search of letters relating to a long-dead Romantic poet named Jeffrey Aspern.

From The New Yorker

“You belong to a party, my friend,” wrote the brilliant French littérateur Paul Valéry.

From The Wall Street Journal

The July 31 Metro article “Preserving ‘chaotic glory’ on Capitol Hill” reported on Capitol Hill Books and the sale of the store by its legendary, litterateur owner Jim Toole.

From Washington Post

So the ambitious young litterateur pursued a career in publishing and journalism instead.

From Washington Post

Only locally could I be a savvy cosmopolite; out in the vastness of the country, adrift and at large, every American was a hick, with the undisguisable emotions of a hick, as defenseless as even a sophisticated littérateur like Benét was against the pleasurable sort of sentiment aroused by the mere mention of Spartanburg, Santa Cruz, or the Nantucket Light, as well as unassuming Skunktown Plain, or Lost Mule Flat, or the titillatingly named Little French Lick.

From The New Yorker