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novelist

[nov-uh-list] / ˈnɒv ə lɪst /


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“Bobby Robotowitz” follows Dina, a flailing novelist, mother and wife, as she begins chatting with Bobby, whom she finds an unlikely confidant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

As a novelist, Gardam won special acclaim for her Old Filth trilogy, published between 2004 and 2013, about an elderly English barrister and judge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The prolific novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates introduces readers to Julia, one half of a couple whose long marriage has come to contain strange, submerged, undiscussable elements in “The Disappearing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Ware, a novelist, wrote the book because she and her husband, journalist Tony Cook, “did everything wrong” in downsizing their homes six times in 10 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Most important, Tawantinsuyu “managed to eradicate hunger,” the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa noted.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The judges said: "A Jamaican epic from one of the most impactful Caribbean novelists today; readers will love the shifting register of the dialogue and poetic phrasings, often pierced through with sharp, double-edged humour."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Tens of thousands of comments on BookTok, a popular book community on TikTok, attest to the popularity of one of Russia's greatest novelists with the social media generation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 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

Every year, thousands of would-be novelists pour their hearts onto the page.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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