fictionist

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Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane—a scene that “outrivals the ability of the fictionist to portray.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Nura" has two older sisters, myself and Mary Blake Woodson, fictionist and long a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.

From Time Magazine Archive

We ascribed to him the faculties of a fictionist, and he used them when he said, “The truth is, that the tongue of slander was let loose upon her.”

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

No doubt, also, there was a little spice of boyish mischief in this; and something of the fictionist, for it enabled him to make a strong impression on his audience.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons