I should perhaps mention, from my own experience, that even an experienced novelist can seriously misjudge the length of a novel. |
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The novelist and essayist Thomas Mann was one of Nazism's most penetrating critics. |
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A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret. |
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Aggie, a chocolate coloured Burmese, who lives with her owner, the novelist Judy Astley on the Embankment, went missing on Saturday April 12 th. |
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Patrick, as a novelist, how was the experience of having your work adapted to film? |
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The first issue had a foreword by John Wain, the novelist, who had just appeared then and was very famous. |
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You offer a long list of reasons why one might become a detective novelist. |
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Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines biography, fiction and scholarship. |
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At heart, she's a Victorian novelist writing long, complex narratives with multiple plots and well-developed characters. |
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Only a passing comment, but such carelessness has probably wrecked my son's future as a prize-winning novelist. |
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If you want to be a storyteller, be an author, be a novelist, be a writer, don't be a film director. |
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His other books include studies of directors Robert Aldrich and David Lean and novelist Raymond Chandler. |
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A novelist who chalked her first words on a Lancaster windowsill has returned to her birthplace decades later. |
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His mother was a novelist, a Labour Party member, and a suffragette who was imprisoned for her agitation for women's rights. |
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Too bad for that Czech or Afrikaans novelist who has not yet had the royal summons to appear in English. |
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Instead of turning out to be a pacy satirical novelist, he might easily have become a pacy satirical playwright. |
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The scene is described in novelist Truman Capote's chilling account of the killings, In Cold Blood. |
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He was a novelist, a critic, a journalist, a pamphleteer, an investigator and he also saw writing as a way of thinking about problems. |
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Much of the book swerves from the Russian novelist to the Australian writer's own life to big ideas. |
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A brilliant historian, he switched his academic focus from French civilisation to human emotions, and has even been a novelist. |
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I've noticed that whenever I read the bio of some successful novelist, they inevitably seem to have this epically dysfunctional childhood. |
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The distinguished lady novelist who boasted proudly that her books always earned out their advances. |
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He is a best-selling and critically lauded novelist, and even a national celebrity. |
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As a novelist myself, I often experience those edgy emotions with respect to fellow novelists. |
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Such inverted snobbery has turned him into that rare creature, a critically adored novelist who actually sells books. |
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Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private. |
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In 1908 the English novelist H. G. Wells could imagine an armada of German dirigibles crossing the Atlantic to devastate New York City. |
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The second view, that globalisation is about to end, has been propounded by John Ralston Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist. |
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You could even argue that Flaubert's supple perfection as a novelist is matched by Ibsen's rigorous economy as a dramatist. |
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The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge. |
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He has claimed that he never wanted to be a novelist despite the fact the he has published so many books. |
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We are so accustomed to his immense tidiness as a novelist, that the slightest muddle in his work looks like chaos. |
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Peter Bowles as Judith's novelist husband best catches the acidulous tone of Coward's comedy of bad manners. |
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But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist. |
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He is a novelist and an Arabist whose scholarship leads him into intriguing discussions. |
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Best known for her vivid African memoirs, she was also a considerable novelist who achieved a scale that could fairly be called epic. |
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No novelist can afford to be precious about the film adaptations of their work. |
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He manages to bring to the stage the kind of free association and wildness of human thought that is generally the realm of the novelist. |
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To be sure, he is an airport novelist, in the sense that airport bookstores are piled high with his books. |
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While these titles are indeed fitting, I believe that James must also be reckoned as a significant novelist in her own right. |
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It is a gifted novelist, indeed, who can make ordinary events come alive, and who can interest the reader in ordinary, even dull, characters. |
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His blandness makes him an amenably malleable subject for a novelist, and Sten Nadolny has taken full advantage of this licence. |
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But I find it hard to get indignant about an amoral, egomaniacal novelist refusing to save the lives of two brutal killers. |
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From a novelist of such great repute, In The Forest comes as a disappointment. |
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Among writers who have examined the emotional power of food is Joanne Harris, the Anglo-French novelist whose books include Chocolat. |
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She's also made it even harder for the next novelist to get a deal with an already skittish and risk-averse publishing industry. |
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In 1903, Jack London, the novelist and journalist, spent a year living among the people of the slums of the east end of London. |
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Giamatti is the doubting loser, a divorced failed novelist who hates himself, as well as anyone who thinks success is achievable. |
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Westlake, for you youngsters, is a crime novelist of long standing and great eminence. |
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By the late 1960s she had acquired a strong reputation as an essayist and a novelist. |
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This explains her wish as a novelist to encourage intercultural understanding among different peoples. |
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The English novelist responsible for the most scarifying account of literary humiliation ever put into print died a hundred years ago this month. |
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Noted Manipuri poet, writer, novelist, literary and cultural activist, he passed away on July 13, 2003 in a tragic jeep accident near Imphal. |
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Jean Ristat, Aragon's testamentary executor, himself a poet and novelist, was Aragon's last friend. |
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He was an Egyptian literary critic, novelist, and poet who became an important Islamist thinker and activist. |
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He was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, the son of a secularist tailor. |
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The esteemed editress of the Liverpool Daily Post is leaving to become a full-time novelist. |
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This is the second in a series of books in which the renowned novelist and her son retell Aesop's tales. |
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In each chapter, the novelist creates the correct mood of the corresponding bhava. |
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However, it is as a novelist that he is most renowned particularly for his highly polished, individual style. |
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She's rich and successful, a best-selling novelist whose devoted fans have made her books and movies commercial blockbusters. |
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The novelist is unapologetic, and still keen to play the part of provocateur. |
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The novelist himself lived for many years in unconsummated love with a happily married woman who accepted him as part of her family. |
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Like Orpheus bringing Eurydice out of the underworld, it seems the novelist cannot look directly at love without losing it. |
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Last summer, Nicholson Baker, novelist and literary essayist, struck again at America's libraries. |
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She has also been a journalist, bonkbuster novelist, PR and trades union executive. |
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He has pretensions to be a serious novelist but mostly confines himself to namechecking Nineteen Eighty-Four and Darkness At Noon. |
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The reader is meant to despise him as weak and unmanly and, thanks to Rand's powers as a novelist, we have no trouble seeing him in this way. |
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Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London. |
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Griffith was already a celebrated letter writer and novelist before her first play, The Platonic Wife, was produced at Drury Lane. |
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Hannah writes like a born novelist, with a calm, seductive style and an almost Chekovian vision of subtle humour and generosity. |
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Later, Wolfe became a novelist himself, to show his peers how Dickensian social realism should be done. |
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He developed into an extremely prolific playwright, novelist, and lecturer. |
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The celebrated poet and novelist knows his songcraft and is, at heart, an indie kid. |
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Like a vaudeville performer, Victorian novelist, or stand-up comic, Hirst will do anything to hold your attention. |
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Freed from Middle America, her focus shifted to New York's literary society, where two women hold a torch for the celebrity novelist who has shucked them off. |
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In conversation with the novelist William Boyd some years ago, I queried him on the names of unheralded authors. |
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A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul. |
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Not anything like a tough-guy novelist who works the street the way Updike works the suburbs. |
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Actually, those were exactly the means that defeated the idea of National Socialism, but Oz is only a novelist. |
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Going deep into the tradition and catering to a heterogeneous audience, the Indian English novelist invoked the shared national experience and thus succeeded in attracting a pan-India readership. |
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Here we have a novel, and a novelist, delighting in the joy of language itself. |
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You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal. |
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That is, to read Men in Space is to encounter a novelist already aware of his capabilities, at times flexing them demonstratively. |
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Her childhood was one any novelist would give his eye teeth for. |
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Journalist and novelist Geoff Dyer's latest work on Venice and Varanasi has won him acclaim. |
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John Updike, John Irving and the redoubtable Mailer believed the white-suited novelist had become overly concerned with the passing fads of the social scene. |
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Trocchi, novelist and avowed internationalist, could keep quiet no longer. |
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She is a novelist and former journalist who has reported from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Russia. |
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Dave Carpenter is a Canadian novelist and essayist who lives in saskatoon, Saskatchewan. |
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If an octogenarian novelist can surprise in January, it could be a happy new year for fiction. |
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Nobel prizewinning novelist v.s. Naipaul has slammed her for the sin of sentimentality. |
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He was expected to be the sort of party animal that was so devastatingly portrayed in Less Than Zero, a novelist who rubbed shoulders with rock music legends. |
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The reviewers denounced Rand the novelist for her one-dimensional characters, but she knew what she was about. |
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Shrake was a newspaperman, a magazine writer, screenwriter, and a fine novelist. |
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An essayist, playwright and novelist, weldon has published 28 previous novels. |
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Dench has been nominated for a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of British novelist Iris Murdoch's decline into Alzheimer's disease in the movie Iris. |
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The film opens with Pi, a grown man, reminiscing to a novelist about his childhood. |
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You are a novelist, an advertising copywriter, and a small business owner. |
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Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence. |
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From her all-purple days to putting a novelist on the hot seat, a look at the early days of a trailblazer. |
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Woodrell and his wife, the novelist Katie Estill, live in the Ozarks, where we recently caught up with him. |
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Even Margaret Oliphant got short shrift, mainly because of the prevailing male sniffiness about the fact that this eminent Victorian novelist wrote for a living. |
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We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille. |
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The novelist Kevin Baker is back with a meaty, sweaty romp through 1940s and 50s New York. |
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John Grisham is the bestselling novelist of The Firm and The pelican Brief, among others. |
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There are breakfast-rooms and supper-rooms, little nooks where the solitudinarian may steal away for an hour of communion with his favorite novelist or poet. |
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The former home of world-renowned novelist Elizabeth Gaskell in Plymouth Grove is another building which is in dire need of work due to subsidence and dry rot. |
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Assia Djebar is the pen name of Algerian novelist and filmmaker Fatima-Zohra Imalayen. |
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The Dickenses were to move house twice during the first two years of Charles's life, and the novelist later recalled Portsmouth with considerable vagueness. |
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John Updike is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. |
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Why did the Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis use modernist experiments to explore the horrors of the eastern bloc? |
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Erica Jong is a poet, novelist, and memoirist, and author of the groundbreaking novel Fear of Flying, among others. |
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A young novelist dies, the American military is betrayed and James Patterson is profiled. |
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I surprised some people, though, by including the novelist Edna O'Brien. |
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Others have joined the literati, including one budding novelist, Nicolle Wallace. |
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Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand. |
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Tama Janowitz, the novelist, was among those who made speeches, and a tape was played showing the designer japing around with Debbie Harry, who was likewise present. |
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Lennox Morrison is a journalist turned novelist who lives in Glasgow. |
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A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent. |
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Theatre was much funnier in those days and Bainbridge the novelist can't resist the essential absurdity of people pretending not to be themselves eight times a week. |
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It's not surprising to discover that this famous Japanese novelist from the Neiji period also wrote haiku, since these three long short stories are equally unintelligible. |
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He made known his disdain for the demands of retail politics as he returned to the more private life of a writer and novelist. |
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Foer began writing Eating Animals when his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, was expecting their firstborn son. |
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A good orientation point is the pinnacled Scott Monument, dedicated to Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, set in Princes Street Gardens. |
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Thomas Mann, the great German novelist, is an acquired taste. |
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On a dozen axes of values, then, there is a deep congruity, much of it reflecting the influence of the archaic epic bard on the nineteenth-century novelist. |
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Both his career as a novelist and his move to America happened by chance. |
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In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality. |
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Historical novelist Lucinda Brant pinpoints the 18th century as the golden age of the power paunch. |
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From a notoriously thin-skinned TV celebrity to an ageing novelist of the club generation, the pastiches are as transparent as they are hilarious. |
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When the Guardian offered John Lanchester access to the gchq files, the journalist and novelist was initially unconvinced. |
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We feel he has denigrated the award to Mr Masters by inferring the award was similar to that given to a French novelist. |
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My favorite novelist was on a flying visit to London last week for a book signing. |
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Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel The Manchester Man. |
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Narayan, began publishing in England in the 1930s, thanks to the encouragement of English novelist Graham Greene. |
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The novelist Jocelyn Brooke, who died in 1966, writes evocatively about Folkestone and Sandgate in his memoirs. |
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Important for the adoption of the style in the early 19th century was Abbotsford House, the residence the novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. |
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During this period he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins. |
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Sir Walter Scott, a leading novelist of the day, contributed one anonymously. |
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Not only was it the first scholarly edition of Austen's works, it was also the first scholarly edition of any English novelist. |
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Meanwhile, he was still writing reviews of books and plays and at this time met the novelist Anthony Powell. |
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His sister Avril accompanied him there and young novelist Paul Potts made up the party. |
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From Tolstoy, Woolf drew lessons about how a novelist should depict a character's psychological state and the interior tension within. |
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Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. |
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Hugo was a poet as well as a novelist, and within the text of the novel are many songs. |
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. |
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In the same year, Winslet appeared in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed film Iris, portraying novelist Iris Murdoch. |
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An essayist and novelist, Orwell's works are important social and political commentaries of the 20th century. |
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Other notable radio dramatists included Brendan Behan, from Ireland, and novelist Angela Carter. |
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Martin Amis, an important novelist in the late twentieth and twentieth centuries, carried into fiction this drive to make the familiar strange. |
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Later in the century the race was the setting of a thriller by the popular novelist Henry Hawley Smart. |
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Miguel de Unamuno was a noted novelist and philosopher of the late 19th and the 20th century. |
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At the same time as he was associating with important figures of the day, Richardson's career as a novelist drew to a close. |
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Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. |
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Greene also wrote short stories and plays, which were well received, although he was always first and foremost a novelist. |
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As a novelist Greene wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels. |
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Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present, and grapple with, the reality of evil. |
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The Harvard Advocate published some of his poems and he became lifelong friends with Conrad Aiken the American novelist. |
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He rented a farmhouse near Strathpeffer and embarked on his most productive period as a novelist and essayist. |
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He lived in Tottenham, London, for four years and then rural France for six while he developed his career as a novelist. |
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It was the producer Alexander Korda, to whom Reed was now signed, who introduced the director to the novelist Graham Greene. |
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James Hannay as well as being a novelist and journalist spent the last five years of his life as the British consul in Barcelona. |
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Investors who alleged to be compromised by the scandal, ranged from novelist Graham Greene to Charlie Chaplin. |
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The poet William Wordsworth was a major contributor to the literature of landscape, as was his contemporary poet and novelist Walter Scott. |
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He wrote poetry and music and his friends included the novelist Laurence Sterne, David Garrick the actor and the Duke and Duchess of Montague. |
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By the outbreak of the Second World War, Shute was already a rising novelist. |
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Tomson Highway, CM is a Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author, who was born in a remote area north of Brochet, Manitoba. |
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The greatest verista novelist, Giovanni Verga, was born in Sicily but wrote his most important books in Milan. |
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Thomas Mann, a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. |
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In the late 1880s Anthony Hope, who later gave up the bar to become a novelist, was his pupil. |
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Of literary figures after the Lake Poets among those most closely associated with Keswick was the novelist Hugh Walpole. |
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Other notable radio dramatists included Brendan Behan, and novelist Angela Carter. |
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He accepted, though confiding to his diary that he could not think of a good novelist since Walter Scott who had done so. |
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In Chicago, he worked as an associate editor of the monthly journal Cooperative Commonwealth, where he met novelist Sherwood Anderson. |
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In Widecombe churchyard is the grave of novelist Beatrice Chase who lived for much of her life in a cottage close to the village. |
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She calls herself a novelist, but she only has a few short stories to her name. |
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Balzac was the great novelist of money, social climbing, and power. |
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The absentee vote tally was 33,813 in the same period ahead of the previous election, which prizewinning novelist Yasuo Tanaka won. |
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She was this cause celebre, this major novelist, like better than Updike. |
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Along with the rest of the wedding party, she listed New York Times bestselling novelist Karen Kingsbury as her Matron of Honor. |
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The Italian semiotician and novelist, Umberto Eco, interprets Aquinas much as I implicitly did above, by giving central place to proportion. |
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Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. |
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Chuck Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. |
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Their migrations, of course, survive in the writings of novelist John Steinbeck and the iconic images taken by photographer Dorothea Lange. |
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When he was unable to get the novel published, he turned to the novelist Leon Uris for help. |
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Georgette Heyer was a prolific British historical romance and detective fiction novelist. |
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Keane was quizzed yesterday on why he picked novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle of 'The Commitments' fame to ghostwrite it. |
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Neither the novelist nor the novel could ever get away with it. |
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He only named one of the women, the novelist Elizabeth Dewberry, who was with him at the time in New York. |
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Like in the first installment, the graphic novelist worked with director Robert Rodriguez to depict the events that took place in Basin City. |
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Playwright and poet Lizzie Nunnery and novelist Gwen doline Riley will appear at the Everyman Bistro on Friday. |
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While Dame Margaret Drabble is well known as a novelist, her work as a writer of short stories is less recognised. |
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The grants are named for American playwright Lillian Hellman and her longtime companion, the novelist Dashiell Hammett. |
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Between his movies, plays, children's books, bluegrass albums, and New Yorker essays, he's also a fine novelist, memoirist, and art collector. |
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Her neighbours are successful crime novelist Nicholas Hardiment and his long-suffering wife Beth, who open their home up as a writers' retreat. |
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British novelist Jim Crace is the author of Quarantine, Being Dead, and The Pesthouse, among his dozen books. |
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Award-winning journalist and novelist John Lantigua presents The Lady From Buenos Aires, a mystery novel featuring former Miami Police Department detective Willie Cuesta. |
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Cult writer, novelist and poet Charles Bukowski was being celebrated by some and used as an excuse to get drunk by others in the new Fin de Sicle nights hosted there. |
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Jowly, lank-haired and unshaven, Douglas plays fiftysomething Grady Tripp, a one-hit novelist firmly stuck teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college. |
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On one side were government propagandists like the novelist John Buchan and jingoists like Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, most politicians and military strategists. |
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A popular life of him by the novelist Emma Jane Guyton also appeared. |
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From Nigeria a number of writers have achieved an international reputation for works in English, including novelist Chinua Achebe, as well as playwright Wole Soyinka. |
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One of the most popular novelist of the era was Sir Walter Scott, whose historical romances inspired a generation of painters, composers, and writers throughout Europe. |
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The subject of mystery novelist Donna Leon's Through a Glass, Darkly is the investigation of a crime in a Venetian glassworks on the island of Murano. |
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He expressed appreciation of the work of the English novelist Ann Doherty. |
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It was satirized by the novelist Jorge Amado in Pen, Sword, Camisole. |
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Harvey is a novelist whose books are published throughout the world. |
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In 1910 Scottish novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa. |
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His contemporary, Swedish novelist and playwright August Strindberg, was a forerunner of experimental forms such as expressionism, symbolism and surrealism. |
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After all, to be an Amazonian chief is to be a legend to your tribe alone, but to be a famous Latin American novelist is to be paparazzied for your foibles. |
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He was the first novelist to portray peasant characters sympathetically and realistically, and was equally just to merchants, soldiers, and even kings. |
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The best known literary figures from modern Orkney are the poet Edwin Muir, the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown and the novelist Eric Linklater. |
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Greene's friend Mario Soldati, a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice. |
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The influential American novelist and critic Theodore Dreiser rescued the novel, referring to it as a work of genius and comparing it to a Beethoven symphony. |
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The best known literary figures from modern Orkney are the poet Edwin Muir, the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown, and the novelist Eric Linklater. |
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In the 20th century, Indian literature was influenced by the works of Bengali poet and novelist Rabindranath Tagore, who was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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The revelations about Eliot's private life surprised and shocked many of her admiring readers, but this did not affect her popularity as a novelist. |
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Emily Jane, born in Thornton, 30 July 1818, was a poet and novelist. |
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Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian, was born in Portsmouth, writing one novel set exclusively in the town, By Celia's Arbour, A Tale of Portsmouth Town. |
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Windermere and the surrounding countryside is the setting for mystery novelist Elizabeth George's 2012 book Believing the Lie, the 17th in the Inspector Lynley series. |
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Many other Commonwealth writers have achieved an international reputation for works in English, including Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and playwright Wole Soyinka. |
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Poet, novelist and academic Jackie Kay also lives in the city. |
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It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times. |
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The latter work is graced with a clever and intriguing drawing by Dean Motter, a graphic novelist and designer who has several other smart drawings in the book. |
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This collection presents all of the work published by New Mexican lawyer, novelist, and journalist Eusebio Chacon over the course of his 40-year career. |
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Many years ago, when the Lady Novelist and I got married, some cousins of mine gave us a pair of Georgian spoons. |
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Novelist and aesthetician, she lived in her mother's Florentine villa. |
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Novelist Stephen Elliot launched his club two years ago through The rumpus, the online culture magazine that he founded. |
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Novelist have also been interested in the subject of racial and gender identity in recent decades. |
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Novelist Kate Roberts worked as a teacher, and was one of few writers to have lived in and written about both North Wales and South Wales. |
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Novelist Sarah Waters, although born in Neyland, attended Milford Haven Grammar School. |
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Novelist Robert Batista maintains that street lit is characterized by its sensationalization of inner-city conditions and neglect of analysis or context. |
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