literateur

"Tom Boyle was a total entertainment, rock 'n' roll literateur, and Laurie Colwin was urbane and funny in her New Yorker mode, and Frank Conroy who'd been around forever and, you know, ran the Iowa Writers 'Workshop, was like Perry Como or Tony Bennett: He was just smooth as silk."

Gerry Howard on Discovering, Editing, and Hatching David Foster Wallace: 'He Was the First Person Who Ever Called Me "Mister"' 2008

Thus, by the time he encountered Faulkner, he was twice a B.A., a sophisticate who had traveled to the North, had seen New Haven and New York, and was, moreover, a literateur.

The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953

Hood_ were all written by Charles Perrault, a celebrated French literateur and poet, who was born in Paris in 1628, and died there in

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

The deceased was widely known as an orator and literateur.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Various

"Neokantian" Professor Spitzer of Graz, the popular literateur W. Boelsche, W. Ule, and a few unknown great men, Dr. Zimmer, Th. Pappstein, R. Steiner, A. Haese; but stay, I came very near forgetting the great pillar, Dodel of Zuerich.

At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert

But as I learned that he was the son of a French _literateur_ of some eminence whom I had met in Paris, and as I had conceived a favourable opinion of the young soldier's gallantry, I gave him his parole and sent him back to his family, who, I think, were Provencals.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

An old physician, quite a literateur, who had recently come into

A slaveholder's daughter, 1900

Outside of a college professor or literateur, who cares to carry in his memory the name of the Persian officer who led the immediate assault upon it?

Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama", 1900

"Ledger" had settled the question that it was not beneath the dignity of the most eminent literateur in the land to write for it.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

A country member, a self - made vulgarian, an antiquated spinster, and a literateur who, after all, was received rather upon sufferance into such exclusive houses as he entered at all, made up a group of which Miss Merrivale, with feminine instinct, felt the inferiority, despite the fact that she had no means of placing the guests.

The Philistines Arlo Bates 1884