novelist

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Mr. Tabor is a novelist and a historian, and this book demonstrates his literary skills: “Lightning Beneath the Sea” is full of drama and excitement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Rowbottom’s husband, the novelist Jon Lindsey, pointed to her instinct for subjects that literary fiction has historically dismissed — either as unserious, feminine or culturally overexposed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

“None of the characters in an Allie Rowbottom book are well mothered,” said the novelist Chelsea Bieker, who workshops manuscripts with Rowbottom alongside Genevieve Hudson and T Kira Madden.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

In a 2008 speech at the PEN Literary Gala, the late Nobel Prize-winning Black novelist Toni Morrison anticipated this new-old order in Donald Trump’s America.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

In New York, he had joined several socialist groups, edited newspapers, recruited students, and befriended the novelist and social activist Theodore Dreiser.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee