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• n  a writer of literary works

• 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.
• He is also a monthly essayist for PTI magazine, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, a political analyst for FOX News and a weekly panelist on Inside .

• litterateur

News & Articles

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• Maria Rodale: The Big Secret No One Tells You
  by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger As a former colleague of mine used to say--and I mean this in the kindest way...
  June 13, 2013 - The Huffington Post
• Bacon Academy reveals valedictorian, salutatorian, contest winner
  Bacon Academy announced the class of 2013 valedictorian and salutatorian as well as the Gilbert Lamb essayist.
  June 13, 2013 - The Norwich Bulletin
• Erskine Academy graduates urged to wait before passing judgement
  Give the whole experience the benefit of the doubt,Erskine Academy's second-honor essayist, told her fellow graduates Friday at the Augusta Civic Center.
  June 8, 2013 - Morning Sentinel

Quotes

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• Anne Fadiman in Calcutta Telegraph
  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...
• Philip Roth in EfluxMedia News
  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."
• Rene Preval in New York Times (blog)
  Among the dead are a former adviser to Haitian President René Préval, 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."