fabulist

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“Mother Doll” isn’t a ghost story but a meticulously layered tale of fabulist historical fiction where the details of the Russian Revolution are related with the same depth of detail as a trip to Disneyland.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Interviews and a review of public records by The Associated Press suggest this was not likely Smirnov’s first turn in what the government says is a cycle as a fabulist.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

An inveterate fabulist who remains terrified of his father, Casimir seems to have invented the wife and three children whom the family has never met.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Embattled fabulist Rep. George Santos is staring down a potential vote to expel him from Congress.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2023

But in none of them does one find the complete Anatole France, ironist, fabulist, critic, theologian, artist, connoisseur, politician, philosopher, and creator of character.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert