novelist
Example Sentences
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Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”
This extraordinary man of parts was a novelist, nature writer, editor, environmentalist, political activist, outdoorsman and Zen master.
“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”
Long before Jane Austen became a global phenomenon, Elizabeth Jenkins wrote the first literary biography of the novelist.
The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite question: Do you think you could make things a little easier to follow?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
