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Example sentences for: novelist

How can you use “novelist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Wang Shuo, China's most popular novelist, is profiled: The satirist just relocated to the United States because the Chinese government banned his works.
Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another.
Joan Didion the novelist has a habit of distrusting them.
John Updike is at bottom a religious novelist, but when you try to identify what exactly his bottom-most religious beliefs may be, the whole murky lot of them playfully slither away--which gives his writing a touch of theological suspense.
It would be naïve to criticize a fiction writer for fabricating fictions; that's what a novelist does for a living.