But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

* 1775 – Matthew Lewis, English novelist ( d. 1818 )

* Matthew Lewis, English novelist and playwright

** C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist ( The Chronicles of Narnia ) and Christian apologist ( b. 1898 )

It is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sauk Centre served as the inspiration for Gopher Prairie, the fictional setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street.

* Sinclair Lewis -- American novelist and playwright, 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, first American to win the Prize for Literature

* Matthew Gregory Lewis ( 1775 – 1818 ), novelist and dramatist

Saunders Lewis, the noted Welsh-language poet, novelist, dramatist, and nationalist, in fact rejected the possibility of Anglo-Welsh literature, because of the use of the language of the British colonialists, affirming that '" the literature which people called Anglo-Welsh was indistinguishable from English literature ".

* Ted Lewis ( writer ) ( 1940-1982 ), English crime novelist

* February 7 – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist

* February 7-Sinclair Lewis, American novelist ( born 1885 )

** C. S. Lewis, novelist / Christian apologist / English professor

* 1930: Sinclair Lewis ( novelist )

* February 7-Sinclair Lewis, novelist ( died 1951 )

* November-Alethea Lewis, English novelist ( born 1749 )

* May 14-Matthew Lewis, novelist and dramatist ( born 1775 )

Other celebrities supporting America First were novelist Sinclair Lewis, poet E. E. Cummings, Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, film producer Walt Disney, and actress Lillian Gish.

The novelist C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, is a former pupil of the school.

He also published paperback editions of literary works by authors such as novelist Wyndham Lewis and the poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

Matthew Gregory Lewis ( 9 July 1775 – 14 May 1818 ) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as " Monk " Lewis, because of the success of his classic Gothic novel, The Monk.

Whereas Radcliffe would allude to the imagined horrors under the genre of terror-gothic, Lewis defined himself by disclosing the details of the gruesome scenes, earning him the title of horror-gothic novelist.

* Matthew Lewis ( writer ) ( 1775 – 1818 ), British Gothic novelist and dramatist

After joining Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946 he established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann ( who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets, Cecil Day Lewis ).

* February 13-Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist ( died 1974 )

* 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist

* 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

James Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

Other authors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist / screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D ' Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero.

For example, the Securing Your Home Forum was moderated by survival retreat expert Joel Skousen, and the Inventory and Barter Items Forum was moderated by the survivalist novelist James Wesley Rawles, who later went on to be a survivalist blogger and preparedness guru.

* 1958 – James Grippando, American novelist

American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.

Brando also adopted Petra Brando-Corval ( born 1972 ), the daughter of his assistant Caroline Barrett and novelist James Clavell.

* 1997 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter ( b. 1946 )

* 1921 – James Jones, American novelist ( d. 1977 )

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

* 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist ( d. 1851 )

** James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1927 )

* January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist ( b. 1923 )

* April 9 – James Cowan, Australian novelist

** James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter

* August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist ( b. 1904 )

* August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, America novelist and conservationist ( b. 1878 )

** James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist ( d. 1849 )

The U. S. novelist James Fenimore Cooper supported this view in his 1841 book The Deerslayer.

Perhaps the author most affected by Balzac was American expatriate novelist Henry James.

James David Graham Niven ( 1 March 1910-29 July 1983 ), known professionally as David Niven, was an English actor and novelist, popular both in Europe and the US.

James Bacque ( born 19 May 1929 ) is a Canadian novelist, publisher and book editor.

Writers John Ciardi, James Merrill, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Richard Wilbur reputedly played together regularly in Key West, Florida, with novelist John Hersey also sometimes sitting in.

In 2002 Emma Tennant published Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers, a novel that fictionalised the relationship between James and American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson and the possible effects of that relationship on The Aspern Papers.