fictionist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fictionist
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
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
"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
In the slow procession of my struggling fortunes this visit to the West seems important, for it was the beginning of my career as a fictionist.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
Altogether and inevitably my work as a fictionist sank into an unimportant place.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
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