Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of stories.
- noun A historian; a chronicler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
- noun obsolete An historian; a chronicler.
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Examples
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I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer.
Confession 2010
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James Otis Purdy (17 July 1914 – 13 March 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, has published over a dozen novels, and several collections of poetry, short stories, and plays.
norbert blei | james purdy 1914-2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Last summer, "Shrek" story-writer and voice actor Walt Dohrn assured Comic Riffs that 2010's "Shrek Forever After" would indeed mark the end of the green ogre's run.
NEW 'PUSS IN BOOTS' TRAILER: 5 Reasons Why Hollywood So Knows What It's Doing 2011
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James Otis Purdy (17 July 1914 – 13 March 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, has published over a dozen novels, and several collections of poetry, short stories, and plays.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Admittedly I've never seen any of Shyamalan's movies before Unbreakable, but I've enjoyed and own everyone he's made since – each one equally my favorite – though, for those of you ranting on The Village and Lady in the Water, I thoroughly enjoyed both of those films in a way I didn't with his others, and that's what keeps him a solid story-writer/director in my opinion.
M. Night Shyamalan's Trouble in Hollywood - Will The Happening Hit Big? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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August Mahlmann (1771 – 1826), journalist, poet and story-writer.
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Calling yourself writer or author or story-writer or novelist is nothing.
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The memoirs collected in this new volume by the celebrated Yiddish novelist and story-writer fall into two groups.
Family Troubles Jacobson, Dan 1966
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Theophile de Sonis, the elegant story-writer, the worldly romancer, had a copper-colored nose, and his harsh beard was like that of a chief in a custom-house.
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Sharing the imaginative vision of the story-writer, we can truly follow out many other roads of life than our own.
How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant
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