feuilletonist

From French feuilletoniste; synchronically, feuilleton +‎ -ist.

feuilletonist (plural feuilletonists)

1. A writer of feuilletons.
   • 1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese

     In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.

   • 1840, Honoré de Balzac (translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley), Pierre Grassou

     But for all this, Grassou gave excellent counsel, like those feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well where a book is wanting.

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