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

"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

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

It is of course true that Voltaire's powers as a "fictionist" were probably limited in fact, to the departments, or the department, which he actually occupied, and out of which he wisely did not go.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

The amateur, content with knowing that he is recounting what did actually happen, falls into the most inartistic ways, because he does not understand that facts are properly only crude material for the fictionist.

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond