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novelist

[nov-uh-list] / ˈnɒv ə lɪst /


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The day my classes were deleted in 2021, I did an emergency phone shrink session where my therapist reminded me that with stints as a poet, novelist and journalist, I was well-versed at reinvention.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

After graduation, Scott moved to New York to become a novelist.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The year before they had published “I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman, a Belgian novelist who died 20 years before — hardly a guaranteed success.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Winn had repeatedly claimed The Salt Path was the first book she had written, and which she won a number of accolades for, including a £10,000 prize for a debut novelist or non-fiction writer.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

When the second-largest U.S. bank discloses its quarterly financial results, analysts have to decipher the lexicon of CEO Brian Moynihan, riddled with obscure, archaic words fit for novelists or judges of bygone centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

But at our best, we novelists probe deeper truths precisely because the facts cannot always, ever, be totally known.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

She explained that the book opened her eyes to the "disguises" many Victorian women novelists were forced to adopt in order to be heard.

From BBC May 29, 2026

The facilitators often have exceptional literary resumes; many are novelists and hold PhDs in literature.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

This was what the novelists meant by suffering.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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