amanuensis

In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Bart was an untrained tune savant, a latter-day Irving Berlin; if the songs are so hummable it’s probably because his composition method was built on humming them to an amanuensis.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2018

For its first foray into the mini-books market, Dutton is reissuing four young-adult novels, available individually or in a boxed set, by the blockbuster amanuensis of adolescent yearning John Green.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2018

So Corinthians was almost on her way to becoming an amanuensis after all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Further complications ensue when the maestro and the diva fall in love with their amanuenses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2014

Thábit, one of the Prophet's amanuenses, who collected the fragments with great difficulty "from bits of parchment, thin white stones, leafless palm-branches, and the bosoms of men."

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

The contraction used by the early amanuenses for Praefecto Praetorio has been misunderstood by their successors, and consequently many MSS. read 'Praeposito,' and this reading has been followed by Nivellius.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin

The want of amanuenses, and of other attentions and comforts, seems to have deeply affected him.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

He was nearly blind, and had to teach himself Spanish and look up authorities through the help of others and to write with a noctograph or by amanuenses.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers