belletrist

Example Sentences

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Wilson, a Harvard entomologist and the doyen of the belletrist arm of the conservation movement, who finds their hubristic ideas “as free of fear as they are of facts”.

From Economist • Aug. 3, 2017

He was a first-class belletrist, but he fell for a scam over a “lost poem” that Edgar Allan Poe allegedly wrote to cover a hotel bill in California.

From Scientific American • Sep. 10, 2013

As for the rest, he has his peers, perhaps betters, as a novelist, belletrist, essayist and short-story writer, but they are different people in each case.

From Time Magazine Archive

FitzGerald, a mid-Victorian belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today.

From Time Magazine Archive