man of letters
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It was Smith, the man of letters, who is remembered for the phrase “invisible hand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was Scotland's last freelance man of letters, equally and happily at home between the covers of books and the pages of newspapers, able to turn his hand, it seemed, to any commission.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Mallon, a distinguished man of letters, moved to Manhattan at 32, holding a PhD from Harvard and a dissertation that became his acclaimed 1984 book, “A Book of One’s Own.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
The clan’s literary wing alone contains the once-prominent man of letters James Russell Lowell and the cigar-smoking poet Amy Lowell.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
By a man of letters he does not mean the poet, for instance, who is all soul, so much as the strong-brained writer whose guardian angel is a fine sanity.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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