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[lit'-ah-RAW-tee] 
1. the literary intelligentsia: "Jen moved to New York after she wrote her first novel in hopes of finding a willing publisher, or at a minimum, a sympathetic ear among the city's literati."
Origin:
Approximately 1621; borrowed from Latin, 'literati,' 'litterati,' plural of 'literatus,' 'litteratus': lettered or literate, from 'littera': letter. In Action:
"In 1871, when Samuel Clemens, a Buffalo newspaperman and former Mississippi riverboat pilot, was basking in the first flush of success as a writer calling himself Mark Twain, the author; his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens; and their infant son, Langdon, moved to a rented house in Hartford to be near his publisher.
A year later they bought a prime piece of real estate in a fashionable little hilltop neighborhood known as Nook Farm. During the 1870's and 80's the area was a gathering place for the Hartford literati and visiting artists, writers, abolitionists, assorted relatives and liberal thinkers from around the world. Other residents included the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, the actor William Gillette and the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker, all of whom became friends of the Clemenses."
Eleanor Charles. "Connecticut Region: Visitors' Center to Be Built at Mark Twain House," The New York Times (January 20, 2002).
"Jean Thompson is one of the rare contemporary writers who have earned their credentials as card-carrying members of the literati while addressing the delicate, ineffable business of ordinary family happiness."
Lisa Zeidner. "Book Review: Wide Blue Yonder," The New York Times (December 30, 2001).
"All the literati keep
An imaginary friend."
W.H. Auden (1907�1973). Anglo-American poet, essayist.
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