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.

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.

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 ".

Novelist William McCranor Henderson wrote about his attempts to learn the Elvis trade in, I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King.

* Novelist Joy Fielding ( b. 1945 ) wrote Kiss Mommy Goodbye while living at 83 Lonsdale Road during the last three years of the ' 70s.

Novelist James Michener once wrote of Vavra: " Though equus has fired the imaginations of painters from Leonardo da Vinci, Velasquez, and Goya to Picasso ; still, in the history of photography, no cameraman has recorded the horse with such excitement and personal style as has Robert Vavra.

In November 2004, Nikolai Tolstoy published Patrick O ' Brian: The Making of the Novelist, the first volume in a two-part biography of O ' Brian using material from the Russ and Tolstoy families and sources, including O ' Brian's personal papers and library, which Tolstoy inherited on O ' Brian's death.

* Diane Smith, ( MA 2004 ) Novelist

He was appointed Writer-in-Residence in England by the London Arts Board ( 1995-6 ), a visiting lecturer in the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College, Massachusetts ( 1996-7 ), and was Distinguished Novelist in the Department of English at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington ( 1999 – 2004 ).

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 Gregory Maguire read a short story based on " The Little Match Girl " over the air on NPR.

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

* 2005, January 2005, " Sea Stories, Novelist Robert N. Macomber on Florida's waterways ," by Robert N. Macomber, Gulfshore Life magazine

* Novelist Fritz Reuter is freed from the fortress of Dömitz after two years ' imprisonment on a charge of high treason.

* Novelist Sarah Scott gives up writing on receipt of her father's legacy.

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 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 Sir Hugh Walpole lived nearby, at Brackenburn on the shores of Derwent Water.

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.

Contentiously, Leavis, and his followers, excluded major authors such as Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and Thomas Hardy from his canon, but eventually he changed his position on Dickens, publishing Dickens the Novelist in 1970.

Novelist Carlos Fuentes received a state funeral on May 16, 2012, with his funeral cortege briefly stopping traffic in Mexico City.

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

Beichman is the author of a book on Herman Wouk entitled Herman Wouk: the Novelist as Social Historian.

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 Dean Koontz told San Diego Comic-Con attendees on July 26, 2008 that he now has a movie script adapted from his book Odd Thomas in hand and he's very pleased with the results.

* A Novelist on Novels ( 1918 ), criticism, published in the United States as Literary Chapters

He has also published two instructional books on writing, The Novelist ’ s Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes and Fiction First Aid.

Novelist Kathleen Norris refused to participate on the grounds that " It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure.

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.

* A Brief Account of the Engineer and Novelist, Nevil Shute from ibooknet

Novelist Tensei Kawano went as far as to state, " We of the younger generation are outcasts from politics and society.

Novelist and playwright Richard Bissell lived in Darien from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.

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.

* Lauren Groff ( b. 1978 ), Modern Novelist from Cooperstown New York

Eight CAM ships were requisitioned from private owners, two of which were sunk: Daghestan, Daltonhall, Eastern City, Helencrest, Kafiristan, Michael E ( sunk ), Novelist, Primrose Hill ( sunk ).

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 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.

# 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 Salman Rushdie joined the band on stage in London's Wembley Stadium on 11 August 1993, despite the death fatwā against the author and the risk of violence arising from his controversial novel The Satanic Verses.

* " Revolutionary Novelist in Crisis ", from The New York Intellectuals by Alan Wald

Lovelace studied at Howard University, Washington, DC, from 1966 to 1967, and in 1974 he received an MA in English from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, where he was also Visiting Novelist.

Novelist and poet Richard Elman, a friend of Fass ’ s from high school, who was producing programs for the station ’ s Drama & Literature Department, helped Fass get a job as an announcer.