novelist
noun
nov·el·ist ˈnä-və-list 
ˈnäv-
: a writer of novels
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The Chief Magistrate of London at the time, Heny Fielding (who also happened to be a celebrated novelist), decided to take on this criminal underworld by assembling a group of police. 
K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022 Céline was, of course, in addition to being a novelist, one of the most vicious anti-Semites who has ever lived, the author of three Jew-hating pamphlets, published in the late thirties and early forties. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 As more students come forward, our narrator dreams of Vladimir, a younger (married) novelist on campus. Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022 The film is a serious comedy centered on a high-school student named Robert Bleichner (Daniel Zolghadri), a gifted artist and a comic-book connoisseur who, at seventeen, decides to drop out in order to pursue his goal of becoming a graphic novelist. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022 Such contortions feel especially awkward, given that the novelist, Julian Barnes, is one of the world’s finest English writers. Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022 Biyi Bandele, the pioneering Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker who directed the 2013 adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandiwe Newton, has died. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2022 In a new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, Colombian-American novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras explores a peculiar heritage: a family belief in some members' supernatural gifts. The Week Staff, The Week, 25 July 2022 Yazbek is a Syrian novelist, journalist, and dissident. Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022 See More
K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022 Céline was, of course, in addition to being a novelist, one of the most vicious anti-Semites who has ever lived, the author of three Jew-hating pamphlets, published in the late thirties and early forties. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 As more students come forward, our narrator dreams of Vladimir, a younger (married) novelist on campus. Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022 The film is a serious comedy centered on a high-school student named Robert Bleichner (Daniel Zolghadri), a gifted artist and a comic-book connoisseur who, at seventeen, decides to drop out in order to pursue his goal of becoming a graphic novelist. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022 Such contortions feel especially awkward, given that the novelist, Julian Barnes, is one of the world’s finest English writers. Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022 Biyi Bandele, the pioneering Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker who directed the 2013 adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandiwe Newton, has died. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2022 In a new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, Colombian-American novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras explores a peculiar heritage: a family belief in some members' supernatural gifts. The Week Staff, The Week, 25 July 2022 Yazbek is a Syrian novelist, journalist, and dissident. Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
novel entry 2 + -ist entry 1
First Known Use
1728, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
novelist
noun
nov·el·ist ˈnä-və-list
: a writer of novels
novelist
noun
as in fictionist
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- fictionist
- memoirist
- storyteller
- essayist
- fictioneer
- autobiographer
- fabulist
- biographer
- playwright
- screenwriter
- dramatist
- memorialist
- scriptwriter
- pamphleteer
- satirist
- hagiographer
- romancer
- poet
- scenarist
- ghostwriter
- scribbler
- cowriter
- versifier
- coauthor
- wordsmith
- proser
- bard
- prosaist
- stylist
- prosateur
- belletrist
- rhymer
- hack
- wordmonger
- hatchet man
- auteur
- belle-lettrist
- coscenarist
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonauthor
- for good
- for good and all
- for good and for ill
- for good behavior
- for good measure
- for goodness' sake
- for heaven's sake
- for hire
- for instance
- for it
- for keeps
- for kicks
- for lack of
- for laughs
- for life
- for long
- for love nor money
- for love or money
- for luck
- for much longer
- for no apparent purpose
- for no good reason
- for nothing
- for observation
- for old times' sake