Novelist Ruth Rendell, writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "... impossible to tell where Dorothy L. Sayers ends and Jill Paton Walsh begins ".

Novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, " Charles Beaumont was one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre.

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 David Rhodes was one of his students.

Novelist Nick Earls was born in the town in 1963, later moving to Brisbane, Australia.

* Fred Gipson ( 1908 – 1973 ) Novelist: Old Yeller and its sequel Savage Sam, was a native of Mason.

Novelist Peter Robinson was born in Castleford

Novelist Nick Hornby compared Kid A to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, implying that it was an attempt at " commercial suicide " in order to escape from a label contract.

* Novelist John Banville was born in Wexford.

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 ).

Among her novels was Hackenfeller's Ape ( 1953 ); among her critical studies were Mozart the Dramatist ( 1964 ; revised 1990 ) and Prancing Novelist A Defence of Fiction ...

Novelist Mary Shelley visited the library on 14 September 1840 but was disappointed by the tight security occasioned by the recent attempted theft of " some of the relics of Petrarch " housed there.

Novelist Mori Ōgai was born in Tsuwano into a family of doctors, and the house of his birth is preserved.

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.

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 Eleanor Dark was born in Burwood but moved away at a young age.

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.

That discovery was a traumatic experience, and led to his biography of his father, Novelist and Storyteller: The Life of C. S. Forester.

Novelist Henry James unflatteringly referred to the group of women artists in Rome of which she was a part as " The White Marmorean Flock ," borrowing a term from Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Marble Faun.

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 .”

Eminent Hindi Novelist, Dr. Bhagwati Sharan Mishra was the first District magistrate of Sheohar.

* Novelist Anne Dunlop was born and grew up near Castledawson.

American Novelist Louisa May Alcott was Sewall's great niece.

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

Novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan ( 1948-) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers.

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.

* Guillermo Arriaga-Film screenwriter, Novelist, and Director ( Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel ).

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

* 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.

* 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 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.

* 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.

Novelist John Barth notes, for example, that the midway point of the novel occurs when Pym reaches the equator, the midway point of the globe.

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 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

" 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.