dime novelist

English

Noun

dime novelist (plural dime novelists)

1. One who writes dime novels.
   • 1873, John Frost, “William Cody.—‘Buffalo Bill.’—His Life and Adventures.”, in Frost’s Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities, from the Earliest Record of American History to the Present Time. […], part first, New York, N.Y.: Wells Publishing Company, […], pages 333–334:

     Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^[sic] escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this.

   • 2016, Derek Catron, chapter 7, in Trail Angel: A Frontier Epic of Love & Redemption, Waterville, Me.: Five Star, Gale, →ISBN, page 38:

     She’d heard stories of western gunfighters, heroic figures who might gun down three men before they fired a single shot. She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists.

   • 2017, William W[allace] Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone, chapter 8, in The Jensen Brand, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, pages 61–62:

     Smoke had always answered her questions honestly because he wanted her to know the truth, not what came from the fevered imaginations of whiskey-addled dime novelists, as he put it.