How to Use novelist in a Sentence

novelist

noun

• The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle.
  — Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
• Coel will star as British novelist Henri, who is stuck.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2024
• Karnoor, a poet, translator, and novelist writes some memorable women characters in this short story.
  — Longreads, 12 Jan. 2023
• Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• As the novelist and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin told me, the move from controlling to watching a character feels like paralysis.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• Powers probably had a more open-minded and sophisticated view of Silicon Valley than many novelists his age.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• This doubt—about the role of the novelist—is as much the center of Smith’s book as the trial.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• When the past revolves around a gaping wound, a novelist must give shape to the void.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Cook went on to become a teacher and a novelist, and died last year at the age of 95.
  — Rebecca Dube, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Closer to home, at least for Eliza, the frauds are novelists.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Knives Out follows the death of the crime novelist, Harlan Thrombey.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• This fact wasn’t lost on the freelance writer and novelist.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• In the 10-part series, Coel will star as a British novelist named Henri.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 19 Aug. 2024
• The show is based on a book trilogy by the Chinese novelist Liu Cixin.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• Among the fascinated readers is Sarah, the young fiancée of the novelist William Ainsworth.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• That is the usual job of mothers, and also of novelists—to describe us and so encase us.
  — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
• Her book features the story of the late novelist Toni Morrison.
  — Matt Button, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2023
• The novelist returned to Tokyo and, along with his wife, approved the operation.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• That’s why the Regency-era novelist is so entwined with the hotel’s lore.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
• Saddam himself was a hit man in his 20s and a prolific novelist in his 60s.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Kael, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• By his side, Caracas finds a grand old man, a novelist who wanders with him into the depths of the Neapolitan underworld.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
• The novelist appeared to be in distress, the eyewitness noted.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
• The novelist Ben Okri followed him into the hallway and reassured him.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• Cabaret is based on the book Goodbye to Berlin by gay novelist Christopher Isherwood.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 25 July 2024
• Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London, two years before John le Carré, the novelist to whom he is often compared.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Crime novelist Don Winslow is the best-selling author of the Cartel trilogy and Savages.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• The series will follow how the novelist became a pedicurist in one of the largest residential areas of Berlin.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 June 2024
• The young screenwriter wanted very much to impress the older novelist.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Confidential novelist James Ellroy, the movie attempts to capture the tensions of the city at its breaking point.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024