fictionist

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Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane—a scene that “outrivals the ability of the fictionist to portray.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

"Nura" has two older sisters, myself and Mary Blake Woodson, fictionist and long a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is moved to tell of things of which he omits to learn the nature before he tells of them—as should be done by a strictly honest fictionist.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

The thing has its limitations, I should think, for the fictionist, chiefly in a sort of roundedness which leaves little play to the imagination.

From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean