amanuensis

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Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

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

For its first foray into the mini-books market, Dutton is reissuing four young-adult novels, available individually or in a boxed set, by the blockbuster amanuensis of adolescent yearning John Green.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2018

So Corinthians was almost on her way to becoming an amanuensis after all.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison