A writer who specializes in feuilleton; an author who writes serialized fiction or lightweight entertainment pieces for newspapers and magazines.
From French 'feuilleton' + English suffix '-ist.' The term became common in the 19th century to describe professional writers who produced content specifically for newspaper serialization.
Feuilletonists were the first true 'content creators'—they had deadlines, audiences, and critics, and some became incredibly wealthy and famous, making Honoré de Balzac and Alexandre Dumas the YouTubers of 1800s France.
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