* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

In the event, though, the plans were rejected, in part because " American opinion was naturally reluctant to accept the principle of equality of treatment so novel in debtor-creditor relationships ".

In 1964, Richard Kyle coined the term " graphic novel " to distinguish newly translated European works from genre-driven subject matter common in American comics.

* Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

In 1960 American author William Buchanan used the character in his novel Christopher Syn.

In 1971, American novelist Frank Yerby published The Man From Dahomey, a historical novel set partially in Dahomey.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.

By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

The title of the well-known Italian novel Il Gattopardo was rendered in English as " The Leopard ", in which the translator was led astray by a false friend ; Italian gattopardo, while being the cognate of " leopard ", in fact refers to other felines ( the American ocelot, the African serval and an extinct type of Italian wildcat ).

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

* Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho follows the day-to-day life of Wall Street investment banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman.

A more recent example is Bret Easton Ellis's ( born 1964 ) seminal novel American Psycho ( 1991 ) about the double life of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer in the New York of the 1980s.

Even though in American Psycho the most heinous crimes are depicted in minute detail, the novel has never been labelled a " crime novel ", maybe because it is never explicitly mentioned whether Bateman actually commits the crimes or rather just fantasizes about them.

American Psycho is a psychological thriller and satirical novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.

A Hungarian version of the novel was written by Attila Hazai ( 1967-2012 ) called Budapesti skizo (" Budapest Psycho ", 1997 ); it was Hazai's best known work but as of his death never translated into English.

Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles ; the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho.

Imperial Bedrooms ( 2010 ) follows the characters of Less Than Zero 25 years later ; it combines the violence of American Psycho and the postmodernism of Lunar Park with the unaltered ennui of Ellis ' debut novel.

* Bret Easton Ellis sent up the sentence in his 1991 novel American Psycho, as narrator Patrick Bateman utters, " a Rolls is a Rolls is a Rolls " during one of his frequent materialist stream-of-consciousness tirades.

* Living briefly in Weyauwega in 1957, Robert Bloch, most famously known as the author of the novel Psycho, quickly learned of the serial killings perpetrated by Ed Gein in nearby Plainfield, Wisconsin.

* The Puck Building serves as the venue for a black-tie party in the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, American Psycho.

The fashion and socializing aspects of being a fop are present in some interpretations of Batman's second identity Bruce Wayne and in the protagonist of the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman.

* Hard Body, derived from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho.

Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the antihero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and its film adaptation.

American Psycho 2000 served as a sort of " e-quel " to the original novel.

Bateman appeared in Ellis ' 2005 novel Lunar Park, in which the fictionalised Bret Easton Ellis confesses that writing American Psycho felt like channeling the words of a violent spirit rather than writing anything himself.

Leto played the supporting role of Paul Allen in Mary Harron's American Psycho, a film based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name.

In October 2011, von Ziegesar released a spin-off of the first novel: Psycho Killer.

* Psycho Killer ( Spin-Off the original first novel ; October 2011 )

Bret Easton Ellis refers to clothing from Brooks Brothers worn by Patrick Bateman and his colleagues in his controversial novel, American Psycho.

* In the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman mentions trying to start a defense fund for Chambers.