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

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

Both representations may be true or false in effect, according as the fictionist throws emphasis and manages light-and-shade.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard