literati

She also joined the ranks of a post-pandemic L.A. literati adept at glitzy launch parties and scene-y readings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

These days, the online literati despises Shriver as a matter of principle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Unlike, for example, the 1983 list, which now looks like a defining picture of the London literati, the judges believe the 2023 list is more representative of British society as a whole.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

Their name is legion, but in the great majority of cases such work as this would not strictly justify their inclusion among the literati.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Latest literatus to attempt this particular impossibility is Author Golding who plants his small potatoes in neat rows on either side Magnolia Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all his poverty, his neuroses, he saw life more wholly than perhaps any other literatus of his time.

From Time Magazine Archive

And at the risk of being misunderstood I should dwell on and repeat that a great imaginative literatus for America can never be merely good and moral in the conventional method.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman