litterateur
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
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
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
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