novelist

[ nov-uh-list ]

noun

1. a person who writes novels. novel.

novelist

/ ˈnɒvəlɪst /

noun

1. a writer of novels

Word History and Origins

Origin of novelist¹

First recorded in 1575–85; novel ¹ + -ist

Example Sentences

Where “Cross” might be said to have a matte finish, “The Day of the Jackal,” created by the Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett, is high-gloss.

From Los Angeles Times

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian journalist and novelist based in Abuja and London.

From BBC

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian journalist and novelist based in Abuja and London.

From BBC

I’m not surprised if, like Anne Enright, the novelist from University College Dublin, writing for “On the Election” in the New York Review of Books, you vent your pent-up frustration over undecideds who are “lonely and sometimes pathetically grandiose.”

From Salon

On an 1861 trip to the United States, the English novelist Anthony Trollope marveled that Americans consumed twice as much beef as Englishmen.

From Salon

Related Words

• author
• storyteller
• writer