litterateur

Example Sentences

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A collection of such squibs might be a tough sell even if its author is acclaimed litterateur Michael Chabon.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017

The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani summed up the personal asides in that book as "the narcissistic musings of a spoiled, upper-middle-class litterateur".

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

A dandy, boulevardier and self-educated litterateur, Mr. Sonnenberg consulted only his own taste, backing it with substantial paychecks to his writers, some well known and others not.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2010

His father was Constantijn Huygens, a master diplomat of the age, a litterateur, poet, composer, musician, close friend and translator of the English poet John Donne, and the head of an archetypical great family.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan