essayist

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The author is a Los Angeles–based novelist and essayist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

What the French essayist offers us “shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Could the same be said of a disingenuous essayist?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

The musician was also known as an acclaimed essayist and poet, with an irrepressible sense of humour.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady