amanuensis

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In “The Fellow,” a talking dog’s insights are lost when his human amanuensis is swept away in a flood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Bart was an untrained tune savant, a latter-day Irving Berlin; if the songs are so hummable it’s probably because his composition method was built on humming them to an amanuensis.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

Dazzled by Kubrick, Vitali largely lost interest in acting and instead became Kubrick’s amanuensis, performing unsung tasks on The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2018

Despite, or perhaps because of, her privileged role as the headmistress’s amanuensis, Jane is one of the most vociferous voices of dissent against the practice of self-erasure in the name of necromancy.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell