fictionist

noun

Definition of fictionistnext
as in novelist

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  1. novelist
  2. storyteller
  3. fabulist
  4. essayist
  5. autobiographer
Noun
  • By that point, Patrick White, arguably Australia’s greatest novelist, had spent much of his life in England.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • What is the likelihood Jacob McNeal will win the Nobel Prize this year … GPT: As of my last knowledge update, Jacob McNeal, an American novelist and playwright, had not yet been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of novelist
Noun
  • Motels have long been symbols of rock-and-roll rebellion, places for wanderers and storytellers seeking escape from convention.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Finn is among those composers who followed in Stephen Sondheim's footsteps by forging intricate and psychologically potent music and lyrics; genius storyteller Lapine also collaborated with Sondheim.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of storyteller
Noun
  • Indeed, there may be some hope and comfort in the notion the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of these United States is sui generis, a one-off, a fabulist political unicorn.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The House expelled the fabulist George Santos for a fabric of falsehoods, but his lies put no one’s life at risk.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of fabulist
Noun
  • Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Definition of essayist
Noun
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
    Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
Definition of autobiographer
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