Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

There was speculation about the identity of Currer Bell and whether the author was male or female and it heightened on the publication of novels by Charlotte's sisters: Emily's Wuthering Heights by " Ellis Bell " and Anne's Agnes Grey by " Acton Bell ".

He was also an admirer of Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate, Prizzi's Honor and numerous other novels.

J K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, is a resident of Edinburgh.

He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

* In John Barth's epistolary work, Letters ( 1979 ), the author interacts with characters from his other novels.

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

* Bill Willingham ( born 1956 ), author of Fables graphic novels.

She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede ( 1859 ), The Mill on the Floss ( 1860 ), Silas Marner ( 1861 ), Middlemarch ( 1871 – 72 ), and Daniel Deronda ( 1876 ), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story " The Coldest Place ".

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

Scottish author Nigel Tranter based one of his historical novels on the historical figure, MacBeth the King.

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).

Science fiction author and scientist / science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future flow.

The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington D. C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, incredulous that Bachman and King were not one and the same, located publisher's records at the Library of Congress and discovered a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington D. C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the Library of Congress that named King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.

In order to draw on an established audience, or simply to leverage the existing creativity of an author, television shows are sometimes based on novels or series of novels.

Many popular novels are optioned, but only a tiny fraction of these ever materialize as an actual show ; often, a producer who is interested in a particular show has to purchase an option from another producer who originally negotiated with the author.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

: The author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short — thus, E-re-whon.

Enid Blyton was a prolific author of short stories.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

The World War I film was based on a short story by author William Faulkner, who Hawks got to know personally during the shooting of the film and remained friends with for over twenty years.

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

Katherine Anne MacLean ( born January 22, 1925 ) is an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.

* The librarian can use the catalogue to find out whether the library owns an item with a particular title or author, or that contains a short story, chapter, song, or poem with a particular title, or to compile a list of books by a particular author or on a particular subject.

According to tradition, the same Patañjali was also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a commentary on Kātyāyana's vārttikas ( short comments ) on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī and of an unspecified work of medicine ( āyurveda ).

Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard wrote extensively about his romanticized version of the Picts, especially in his short stories revolving around the fictional character Bran Mak Morn, but also in many other of his stories.

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

the term was coined by author Bruce Bethke for his 1980 short story " Cyberpunk ".

This senryū, which can also be translated " Catching him / you see the robber / is your son ," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation ( provided by a short comment called a maeku or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples ) and / or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts ( plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc .).

The most prolific French author of short stories was Guy de Maupassant.

The most prolific Indian author of short stories was Rabindranath Tagore, who introduced the genre to Bengali language in 1877 with " The Beggar Woman ".

In Poland, Bolesław Prus was the most important author of short stories.