Novelist John Ball grew up in Steinmetz's house.

Novelist John Fowles wrote in 1985 A Maggot, a postmodern historical novel culminating in the birth of Ann Lee, and describing early Shakers in England.

Novelist John Grisham grew up in nearby DeSoto County, Mississippi, and many of his books are set in Memphis.

Critic Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat wrote, " Here's a nice little movie about the baby boom generation ... Novelist John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited this movie.

* Novelist Bernard Knight, a former Home Office pathologist and a professor of forensic pathology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, is well known for his Crowner John Mysteries series set in 12th century Devon, England.

Novelist Cormac McCarthy lives in the Tesuque area with his third wife, Jennifer Winkley, and their son, John.

* John Shannon, Mystery Novelist

* Novelist John Banville was born in Wexford.

Novelist Robert Stone, who met the bus on its arrival in New York, has written that those accompanying Kesey on the trip were Neal Cassady ( described by Stone as " the world's greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon "), Ken Babbs (" fresh from the Nam, full of radio nomenclature, and with a command voice that put cops to flight "), Jane Burton (" a pregnant young philosophy professor who declined no challenges "), Page Browning (" a Hell's Angel candidate "), George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (" dis-MOUNT "), Mike Hagen (" Mal Function "), Ron Bevirt (" Hassler "), Chuck Kesey, Dale Kesey, John Babbs, Steve Lambrecht and Paula Sundstren (" aka Gretchin Fetchin, Slime Queen ").

Novelist John Cowper Powys ( 1872-1963 ) lived in Corwen with his common-law-wife Phyllis Playter from 1935 until 1955, when they and moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

* Novelist: John Brunner ( United Kingdom ); Gianluigi Zuddas ( Italy ); Janusz Zadjel ( Poland )

Novelist John Barth defines literary maximalism through the medieval Roman Catholic Church's opposition between, " two ... roads to grace :"

The Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry ( Two Years Before the Mast ) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman.

* John Wain ( 1925 – 1994 ): Novelist, dramatist, critic and biographer.

Bullet Park is a 1969 novel by American Novelist John Cheever about an earnest yet pensive father Eliot Nailles and his troubled son Tony, and their predestined fate with a psychotic man Hammer, who moves to Bullet Park to sacrifice one of them.

* Life for Life's Sake: Memories of a Vanished England and a Changing World, by One Who Was Bohemian, Poet, Soldier, Novelist and Wanderer ( 1941 ) memoir

Novelist and historian Eleanor Dark ( 1901 – 1985 ), best known for her historical novel A Timeless Land, lived in Katoomba with her husband Dr. Eric Dark from 1923 until her death.

Recent visitors to the festival have included the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies, famous for his work in the field of adaptation ; novelist Adele Parks, a highly acclaimed women's fiction author nominated for the Romantic Novelist of the Year award ; and Janet Street-Porter, a British media personality, journalist, television presenter and producer.

Novelist and essayist Richard Wright condemned Their Eyes, writing in a review for New Masses,

Novelist Jayne Ann Krentz ( writing as Amanda Quick ) has the hero of her historical novel I Thee Wed ( 1999, second book in the Vanza series ) use them as bodyguards for his fiancee.

Novelist Susan Vreeland wrote " The Forest Lover " in 2004 based on events from Carr's life, using Emily Carr as the main character / protagonist and altering some characters and chronology for the purpose of pacing.

Many clubs have been founded in MR, these include: An Art club ( with five divisions for: Visual art, music, dancing, literature and films ), Herranótt acting guild ( the oldest theatric club in northern Europe ), Computer academy and a Nerd club ( which merged and became known as The Academy ), Traveller's club, Sport's club, Riding club, Science club, Novelist club, Chess club and the Rowing club ( which was historically a club for rowing, but is now a male-cheerleading team ).

* 6 March – Novelist Arundhati Roy, a high-profile campaigner against the Narmada river dams project, is sentenced by the Supreme Court to one day in prison for contempt of court because of an affidavit she had written criticising the court.

The theme of unfinished ambitions and the unattained love of the young and beautiful in Hollywood, embodied by the beach house, have great significance for both the Novelist and Director at the end of their luminary careers.

Novelist Aldous Huxley used it as the title for his 1936 novel Eyeless in Gaza.

Novelist Barbara Delinsky, author of the fictional Looking for Peyton Place ( 2006 ), summarized the storyline of Peyton Place on her website:

Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was the screenwriter for most of their productions.

Novelist and short story writer Theodore Francis Powys lived in Mappowder for the last 13 years of his life ; he died and was buried here in 1953.

Novelist Stanley Ellin's New York Times review asserted that that the novel " was a dud, and for reasons having nothing to do with the author's well-proven talent.

Novelist and screenwriter Michael Marshall Smith completed a first draft of a script for an eight-hour miniseries in 1995.

Novelist E. L. Doctorow used his acceptance speech for a fiction prize at the March 1990 National Book Critics Circle award ceremony to criticize Random House for ousting Schiffrin.

* Bestselling Novelist Must Pay Up for Plagiarism

# Filipino English: Literature As We Think It ( from F. Sionil Jose's Keynote Lecture at the Conference on " Literatures in Englishes " at the National University of Singapore ), F. Sionil Jose: National Artist for Literature, Foremost Novelist, and Stanford. edu, March 19, 2006, retrieved on: June 6, 2007

He was chairman for literary advice of the Norwegian Novelist Association ( Den norske forfattarforening ) 1970-72.

" Novelist Christopher Hope, reviewing for The Guardian ( January 2010 ), noted the spirit of Chekov's " The Cherry Orchard " and called the novel ' one of the most moving to come out of South Africa in many years.

Novelist and lecturer Scarlett Thomas uses it to teach innovative contemporary fiction, as an example of different kinds of narrative techniques.

Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez described the Valencian custom of eating water voles in Cañas y Barro ( 1902 ), a realistic novel about life among the fishermen and peasants near lake Albufera.

Novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo vividly described how the 16th Division of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force committed atrocities on the march between Shanghai and Nanking in his novel Ikiteiru Heitai ( Living Soldiers ), which was based on interviews that Tatsuzo conducted with troops in Nanking in January 1938.

Novelist Kevin J. Anderson presents approximately the last Earth year before Krypton's destruction in the novel The Last Days of Krypton.

* Novelist Peter David named a shuttlecraft, the Chawla, after the astronaut in his 2007 Star Trek novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor.

She wrote the novel in six weeks and went on to win the Alberta Search-for-a-New Novelist Competition in 1977.

Novelist and reviewer, Peter Corris wrote in his review of Monkey Grip that Garner " has published her private journal rather than written a novel " while Peter Pierce wrote in Meanjin of Honour and Other People's Children that Garner " talks dirty and passes it off as realism ".

* Paigham Afaqui ( b. 1956 ) Novelist, short-story-writer and poet and author of novel Makaan.

" Novelist Christopher Fowler pays homage to The Moving Toyshop in The Victoria Vanishes, his sixth Bryant & May novel.

Novelist Max Allan Collins acknowledged the influence of Lone Wolf and Cub on his graphic novel Road to Perdition in an interview to the BBC, declaring that " Road To Perdition is ' an unabashed homage ' to Lone Wolf And Cub ".

Novelist Vonda McIntyre first presents ' Hikaru ' as the character's first name in the novel The Entropy Effect.

Novelist Tom Robbins discusses Nommo and the Sirius mysteries in his novel Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.

He then turned his attention to fiction and the novel, producing The Great Tradition ( 1948 ) and D. H. Lawrence, Novelist ( 1955 ).

Novelist George Egon Hatvary uses Dupin in his novel The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe ( 1997 ) as detective and narrator.

The public mood and the reaction of society on introduction of rail transport in this region has been nicely depicted by the famous Bengali Novelist Dr Ramapada Choudhury who was born and brought up in Kharagpur, in his Bengali novel Prothom Prohor.

Novelist Émile Zola called it an important " roman expérimental " (" experimental novel "), and praised its acute exploration of the characters ' motivations.

Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel.

Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

While Mailer dips into familiar territory in his fiction — self-portrait — the outlandish, third person account of himself along with self-descriptions such as a Novelist / Historian, anti-star / hero are made far more complex by the narrative's overall generic identification as a nonfiction novel.