In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 – 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.

The novelist Dinah Maria Craik visited Tintagel in 1883 and published an informative account of her journey through Cornwall the following year.

After the Soviet novelist Vasily Aksyonov visited Samara, he remarked: " I am not sure where in the West one can find such a long and beautiful embankment.

Politician and novelist Jacob van Lennep visited Ommerschans during his walking tour with Dirk van Hogendorp across the newly independent United Kingdom of the Netherlands in the summer of 1823, and documented his appal at the conditions at the labour camp: " These hours are certainly among the saddest I have lived through.

In 1853, Levi visited England, where he met the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was interested in Rosicrucianism as a literary theme and was the president of a minor Rosicrucian order.

The first British traveller to describe its benefits was the novelist Tobias Smollett, who visited Nice in 1763 when it was still an Italian city within the Kingdom of Sardinia.

In the nineteenth century, Netley became a popular tourist attraction ( the novelist Jane Austen was among those who visited ) and steps were taken to conserve the ruins.

Later, the famous German novelist and poet Erich Kästner repeatedly visited the valley, as did the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

In 1842, the English novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray, visited Westport and wrote of the town:

According to Catholic novelist Evelyn Waugh ( who visited Croatia after the war ), " the task of the partisans was made easier in that the clergy as a whole had undoubtedly compromised the church by tolerating the pro-Axis Ustashis, if not actively collaborating with them ".

In 1854 the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, whilst in the position of United States consul in Liverpool, visited Eastham and declared it to be: " the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and with altogether a rural and picturesque aspect, unlike anything in America, and yet possessing a familiar look, as if it were something I had dreamed about.

While in ADX Florence, he was visited by novelist Jonathan Franzen.

Apart from diamonds the town is best known as having been the home of Etienne Leroux, a famous Afrikaans novelist whose homestead and grave can be visited.

On a rainy night on Earth, the elderly Jake Sisko ( Tony Todd ) is visited by an aspiring novelist Melanie ( Rachel Robinson ), who is curious to learn why Jake gave up writing after publishing two successful books.

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed ' Bletchley-in-the-Tropics ' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken ( Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming ).

* 1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist ( d. 1916 )

Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume ( 8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932 ) was an English novelist.

* Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran ( 1859 – 1938 ), Icelandic editor, novelist, poet, playwright and prominent spiritualist

Mary Cholmondeley ( 8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925 ) was an English novelist.

Samuel Rutherford Crockett ( 24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914 ) was a Scottish novelist.

Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope lived at Waltham House, Waltham Cross for 12 years between 1859 and 1871, where he wrote twenty-six novels and entertained his illustrious London friends.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ( 1859 – August 13, 1930 ) was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.

Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry ( December 28, 1769-November 7, 1859 ), was a French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician.

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran ( December 6, 1859 in Vellanes, Iceland as Einar Hjörleifsson – May 21, 1938 in Reykjavík ) was an Icelandic editor, novelist, poet, playwright and prominent spiritualist.

Romantic novelist Edith Hope is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva, where her friends have advised her to retreat following an unfortunate incident.

Somerset MRT Station was named in reference to an English playwright, novelist and short story writer, William Somerset Maugham, who wrote a series of stories on Malaya, Borneo and Singapore while staying at Raffles Hotel during his stay in Singapore in the 1930s

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.

The novelist William Styron told Summers that he once saw Hoover and Tolson in a California beach house, where the director was painting his friend's toenails.

The second-person narrative passages develop into a fairly cohesive novel that puts its two protagonists on the track of an international book-fraud conspiracy, a mischievous translator, a reclusive novelist, a collapsing publishing house, and several repressive governments.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

In the mid 1870s the novelist Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) lived in a house called ' St.

Sir H. Rider Haggard, novelist, was born in Bradenham, and later in his life spent his summers at Kessingland in a cliff-top house called the Grange ( now demolished, however a local road is named after Haggard ).

Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood ; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit, too.

Huxley was born on 22 June 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Augusta Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.

Upon arrival at Shaitana's house on the appointed day, Poirot is joined by three other guests: mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Battle, and Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service.

This led the novelist Ian Fleming to refer to " that extraordinary trademark of a dolls house swimming in chocolate fudge with Nottingham Castle written underneath.

What is now the Cedars public house and restaurant on the corner of Main Street and School Lane was formerly the home of novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim.

* The novelist Elizabeth Bowen spent her childhood in Hythe and retired to a house on Church Steps ( overlooking the parish church ) where she died.

* Walter Spies still used to receive guests at his house in Iseh, including the Austrian novelist, Vicki Baum: musician, Colin McPhee ...

His vacation house in the city, located in Copou area and known locally as Casa cu turn (" The House with a Tower "), was the residence of composer George Enescu for part of the Romanian Campaign, and, in 1930, was purchased by the novelist Mihail Sadoveanu ( in 1980, it became a museum dedicated to Sadoveanu's memory ).

* Jan Struther, novelist notable for Mrs Miniver, lived in a house called The Priory.

He is generally at loggerheads with his fearsomely proper novelist aunt, Julia Ukridge, who lives in a big house off Wimbledon Common, but has occasional periods of reconciliation, which end when he exploits his position in her house to start another scheme.

The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, wishes to learn about the occult for a novel he is writing, and he arranges for an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house.

During the years 1925 to 1945, the novelist E. M. Forster lived with his mother Alice Clare ( Lily ) in West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer in a house designed by his father, the architect ' Eddie ' Morgan, and previously occupied by his aunt Laura.

: A novelist who lives in the next house of Isono family's house.

Potrč's father, Ivan Potrč, was a well-known Slovene social realist novelist and playwright from Lower Styria, and the main editor of the publishing house Mladinska Knjiga.

The novelist Agatha Christie was a frequent visitor to the village, where her descendants still live, at the former manor house of Pwllywrach.