** Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist ( d. 1562 )

** Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist ( b. 1480 )

Even George Buttrick, whose words had so inspired Buechner, observed that, " It would be a shame to lose a good novelist for a mediocre preacher.

" The novelist and critic Walter Allen met Manning in 1937 and observed that she had a " devastating " wit " and was as formidable a young woman as any in London ".

Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain's depiction of a totalitarian world state draws on what novelist Karin Boye observed or sensed about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany of the 1930s.

Leonardo Sciascia (; January 8, 1921 – November 20, 1989 ) was a Sicilian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and politician.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

" The novelist Henry de Vere Stacpoole decided to take the fairy photographs and the girls at face value.

Progressing rapidly to numerous collaborations on films at Cinecittà, his circle of professional acquaintances widened to include novelist Vitaliano Brancati and scriptwriter Piero Tellini.

Meanwhile he was still writing reviews of books and plays and at this time met the novelist Anthony Powell.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

His granddaughter is the novelist Irene Marcuse and his grandson, Harold Marcuse, is currently a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

* Nevil Shute ( Nevil Shute Norway ), the Ealing-born aeronautical engineer and novelist lived at Pond Head on Hayling Island during World War II.

In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.

Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.

Daphne du Maurier, the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP ; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish issues, but is no longer a member of the political party.

A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* Thoby Stephen, elder brother of novelist Virginia Woolf, died of typhoid fever in 1906 at age 26.

* J. Slauerhoff ( poet, novelist ) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.

* November 28 – Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist, literary and social historian of the Midwest, professor of English at Miami University, ( died 1994 )

* 19 May 1953: the 25th “ Bal des Petits Lits Blancs “, organised by the novelist Guy des Cars, takes place at the Moulin Rouge in the presence of the French President, Monsieur Vincent Auriol, and it includes, for the first time on a European stage, Bing Crosby.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

His work influenced novelist Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, which provided the first description of a physical type that became associated with lesbians: tall, wide-shouldered, slim-hipped, and athletically inclined.

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.

F. R. Leavis had rubbished Scott, seeing him as a thoroughly bad novelist and a thoroughly bad influence ( The Great Tradition ); Marilyn Butler, however, offered a political reading of the fiction of the period that found a great deal of genuine interest in his work ( Romantics, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries ).

It is a work of " cataclysmic terror ", in the words of horror novelist Stephen King, who declared, " I would happily testify to its redeeming social merit in any court in the country.

French philosopher Michel Serres noted that the 23 Tintin albums constituted a "" to which " the work of no French novelist is comparable in importance or greatness ".

In May 1963 he published a work entitled Raymond Rousell, which was devoted to the eponymous poet, novelist and playwright, who was one of Foucault's favourite authors.

The work of independent artists, such as American novelist John Steinbeck's novels Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), and the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.

While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published fifteen books of poetry to date.

Acclaimed Southern novelist William Gilmore Simms declared the work utterly false, while others called the novel criminal and slanderous.

Thomas Hardy, then a junior architect and later a novelist and poet, was involved in this work.

* Bram Stoker Award winner and novelist Lucy A. Snyder grew up in San Angelo and has used a fictional version of the city as a setting in some of her work.

William Clark Styron, Jr. ( June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006 ) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Among the admirers of Verlaine's work was the Russian language poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

The science-fiction and horror novelist John Shirley has written an introductory work on Gurdjieff for Penguin / Tarcher, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas.

The obvious parallels to Roth's own life as a novelist ( with the novel Carnovsky a stand-in for Portnoy's Complaint ) signaled Roth's burgeoning interest in the relationship between an author and his work.

Montague Summers, in his 1924 edition of this work, showed that some details of Manfred of Sicily's real history inspired the novelist.

She created a scandal at the turn of the 20th century by her lesbian affair with the French novelist Colette who had taken up work in the music halls of Paris in 1906 under her wing, and with whom she became romantically involved.

For Yaeger and the British novelist and critic Ali Smith, this is to sentimentalize the work.