It won't have been his intention but following his memoir, Experience, The War confirms that his real strength lies not as a fictioneer but as an essayist.
The short story is considered by many (if not most) fictioneers to be the most difficult mode of narrative expression.
I explained that his novels would be in competition with the slick, fast-paced, thrill-a-minute entertainments of the American pulp fictioneers.
Our parents' generation or our grandparents' remembered the West as it was, and a lot of it was just as Romantic as fictioneers have dreamed it.
Not only an impressive fictioneer, he's also a technical journalist specialising in radio.
Synonyms
author, writer of fiction, creative writer, man of letters, woman of letters