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anthologist

American  
[an-thah-luhj-ist] / ænˈθɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

  • anthologists
    plural
  1. a person who compiles or edits an anthology.


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Mr. Hoffman, who cultivated gay authors as an editor and anthologist, was also celebrated as the librettist of composer John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2017

One anthology to look up this fall comes from master anthologist Ellen Datlow, who takes on H.P.

From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016

Lummis is an ideal guide for this endeavor — poet, anthologist, long-time L.A. literary booster — although perhaps the most essential aspect of the book is her generosity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2015

It’s easy to bully an anthologist for not including one’s favorites.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2012

This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

“I would prefer it if the textbook compilers and the anthologists would assume that I had written a few other poems.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016

John Mullan pointed out in the Guardian that, unlike many anthologists, Gross came up with the unfamiliar – less than 10% of his material had previously appeared in other Oxford anthologies.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2011

It has grown to be the habit of anthologists to assert Shakespeare's right to "Roses, their sharp spikes being gone."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse

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