Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

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.

Winer is also the grandnephew of German novelist Arno Schmidt and a relative of Hedy Lamarr.

Frank Thompson was also a friend and confidant of Iris Murdoch, the philosopher and novelist.

Although mainly a novelist, he also wrote several plays, the most famous being Yellow Sands.

American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.

The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings.

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.

Besides being a statesman and political scientist, Machiavelli also translated classical works, and was a dramaturge ( Clizia, Mandragola ), a poet ( Sonetti, Canzoni, Ottave, Canti carnascialeschi ), and a novelist ( Belfagor arcidiavolo ).

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

King also wrote the nonfiction book, Faithful, with novelist and fellow Red Sox fanatic Stewart O ' Nan.

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.

" He also used a realist technique which French novelist Marcel Proust later named " retrospective illumination ", whereby a character's past is revealed long after she or he first appears.

In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was also a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English.

Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.

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.

He was also a second cousin of novelist Nancy Richler.

Late authors Shel Silverstein and William Styron also lived on the Vineyard, as did writer, journalist and teacher John Hersey, poet and novelist Dorothy West and artist Thomas Hart Benton Various writers have been inspired by the island — including the mystery writer Philip Craig who set several novels on the island.

French-Canadian literature also began to attract a great deal of attention globally, with Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet winning the Prix Goncourt.

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.

The novelist Christopher Isherwood also addresses the interpretation of the linga as a sex symbol.

While he admired and drew inspiration from the Romantic style of Scottish novelist Walter Scott, Balzac sought to depict human existence through the use of particulars.

At the same time as he was associating with important figures of the day, Richardson's career as a novelist drew to a close.

The Italian novelist Italo Calvino drew on Ariosto for several of his works of fiction including Il cavaliere inesistente (" The Nonexistent Knight ", 1959 ) and Il castello dei destini incrociati (" The Castle of Crossed Destinies ", 1973 ).

This drew in part on Reed's own experience of researching a biography of the novelist Thomas Hardy.

African-American novelist Ann Petry drew on her personal experiences of the hurricane in Old Saybrook in her 1947 novel, Country Place.

James Farl Powers ( July 8, 1917June 12, 1999 ) was a Roman Catholic American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of midwestern Catholic priests.

Clifford Dowdey, a Virginia newspaperman and novelist, was noted for his severe criticism of Longstreet in the 1950s and 1960s.

He is also a novelist and writes literary criticism for several newspapers.

Another notable feud Trevor-Roper carried on in the 1950s-60s was with the novelist and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh, who saw Trevor-Roper as a severe critic of the Catholic Church, and was often vocal in expressing his criticism of him.

* Robert Weninger: Framing a novelist: Arno Schmidt criticism 1970-1994.

Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres ( novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews ) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

Another noteworthy criticism comes from the novelist David Foster Wallace, who in a 1985 paper " Richard Taylor's Fatalism and the Semantics of Physical Modality " suggests that Taylor reached his conclusion of fatalism only because his argument involved two different and inconsistent notions of impossibility.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

Stanley Crouch ( born December 42, 1945, Los Angeles ) is an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

His reputation as a novelist has kept his poetry in print, and recent criticism has regarded it better than that of many of his contemporaries.

Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS ( ) ( born 8 May 1946 ) is a British poet, a non-fiction author known for her poetry criticism, nature writing and connections with science ; and more recently a novelist.

She is a novelist and a poet, and as well a journalist and sharp columnist with her own on media criticism based TV-program every week.

Rebibo has edited and translated prose for novelist, Yizhar Smilansky ( S. Yizhar ), Toronto filmmaker Avi Lev, Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher at the Academy of the Hebrew Language, and for other leading Israelis in literary criticism, linguistics, business, and technology.