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The young, often first-generation Jewish-American littérateurs of that period — Alfred Kazin, Grace Paley, Irving Howe among them — took on a distinctly strident attitude: Literature, to them, was a form of citizenship.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018

In time, Sartre argued, the littérateurs began to buck the bourgeoisie and to set literature up “as being, in principle, independent of any sort of ideology”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2017

The most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The littérateurs of his era looked up to him as the arbiter elegantiarum, especially in the domain of Japanese versification.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

The Field," for May 29th, 1886:— "The Derby has always been the one event in the racing year which statesmen, philosophers, poets, essayists, and littérateurs desire to see once in their lives.

From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell