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

When it comes to John Watson, Holmes’s best friend, amanuensis and sometimes roommate, Holmes criticizes him, deceives him, disappears for years and lets Watson believe him dead.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

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

After her mother died, of Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 1997, she wrote a play called “The Emperor and the Scribe,” about a dying African ruler and his amanuensis.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

“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