litterateur

Example Sentences

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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021

A collection of such squibs might be a tough sell even if its author is acclaimed litterateur Michael Chabon.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani summed up the personal asides in that book as "the narcissistic musings of a spoiled, upper-middle-class litterateur".

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

This nostalgist’s delight skims the free-verse cream from Don Marquis’s cockroach litterateur, Archy, and his alley-cat pal, Mehitabel.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2011

His father was Constantijn Huygens, a master diplomat of the age, a litterateur, poet, composer, musician, close friend and translator of the English poet John Donne, and the head of an archetypical great family.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan