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fictionist

American  
[fik-shuh-nist] / ˈfɪk ʃə nɪst /
Or fictioner

noun

  1. a writer of fiction; a novelist or short-story writer.


Etymology

Origin of fictionist

First recorded in 1820–30; fiction + -ist

Example Sentences

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Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane—a scene that “outrivals the ability of the fictionist to portray.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

"Nura" has two older sisters, myself and Mary Blake Woodson, fictionist and long a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land.

From Time Magazine Archive

Save thou art too unimaginative to be a fictionist I should say thou makest thy story.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

Trollope, in his somewhat unsatisfactory biography of his fellow fictionist, very rightly puts his finger on a certain scene in "Vanity Fair" in which Sir Pitt Crawley figures, which departs widely from reality.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard