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

The first thing to know about David Duchovny the novelist is that he’s serious about being David Duchovny the novelist.

From Washington Post

He studied film, become an avid gamer and was an aspiring graphic novelist.

From Ozy

I now think that what I was really moving toward was the use of scientific research to answer some of the questions raised by the novelists I’d read as a younger person.

From Quanta Magazine

With the skill of a novelist, she illuminates Rich’s life from her birth in Baltimore in 1929 to her death in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 2012.

From Washington Blade

Absent any satisfying explanation of why the country is Krak’d out, we turned to the “prince of paleo-fiction,” a novelist named Max Hawthorne, who wrote a trilogy of Kraken-centric books.

From Washington Post

A young novelist dies, the American military is betrayed and James Patterson is profiled.

From The Daily Beast

“You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist,” Martin Amis has observed.

From The Daily Beast

Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.

From The Daily Beast

She is a novelist and former journalist who has reported from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Russia.

From The Daily Beast

Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand.

From The Daily Beast

Richard Cumberland died; eminent as a British poet, essayist, novelist and dramatic writer.

From Project Gutenberg

Near at hand is the home where Anthony Trollope, the novelist, lived for many years, and his sister is buried in the churchyard.

From Project Gutenberg

"That is exactly my object in asking you to meet me here, Enid," said the novelist, his countenance still thoughtful and serious.

From Project Gutenberg

One wonders why the great novelist and preacher spent so many years of his life here.

From Project Gutenberg

"I hardly know," was the novelist's reply, as in a navy serge suit he leaned near the window which overlooked the Thames.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• author
• storyteller
• writer