Novelist
/ˈnɒvəlɪst/noun
A person who writes novels.
Did you know?“Novel” originally meant “new” or “unusual,” so a novelist was historically associated with creating something fresh rather than merely writing long stories.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*néwos
“New; fresh; not previously known”
Ancient Latin
Latin
novus
“New, fresh, unusual, or strange”
Late Latin
Latin
novellus
“New or young; a diminutive form of novus”
12th–13th Century
Old French
novel
“New, recent, or unusual; later, a fictional narrative”
15th Century
English
novel
“New or unusual; subsequently, a long fictional prose work”
18th Century
English
novelist
“A writer of novels, formed from novel plus the agentive suffix -ist”