essayist

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essayist /ˈɛ ˌseɪ ɪst/ ?

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Margaret Atwood has worn many literary hats novelist, poet, essayist, critic, historian but now she has added another one: orator.
My biggest by farbesides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humorwas Robert Benchley, a humor essayist.
As essayist, she speaks for the old traditions: the French-speaking aristocrat reluctant to cut the cord to Europe.

Fadiman writes, "The familiar essayist didn't speak to the millions; he spoke to one reader, as if the two of them were sitting side by side in front of a crackling fire with their cravats loosened, their favourite stimulants at hand, and a long...
on Jul 30, 2009 By: Anne Fadiman Source: Calcutta Telegraph
Another Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist, Philip Roth, said Updike was "our time's greatest man of letters, as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short story writer."
on Jan 28, 2009 By: Philip Roth Source: EfluxMedia News
Among the dead are a former adviser to Haitian President RenÃ© PrÃ©val, aid workers and Georges Anglade, described by the newspaper as "an essayist and geographer who settled in Montreal after being jailed by the Duvalier regime."
on Jan 19, 2010 By: Rene Preval Source: New York Times (blog)