novelist

Unlike the novelists I avidly read in my formative years, these playwrights invited actors to endow their words with body and voice.

My friend Cecil, a novelist, says: “As artists, it’s our gig to keep the embarrassing things that inspire us around. We are complex, and hopefully everyone gets that.”

In it, Streep’s character, a fading but indomitable Hollywood actress named Madeline Ashton, is reunited with her old friend, Hawn’s wallflower novelist Helen Sharp.

A novelist, she had written the bestselling “Annie Jordan,” about a plucky heroine in boom town Seattle modeled on her pioneer family.

García Márquez, the Colombian novelist known for his mastery of magical realism, was a strong supporter of Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime leader, and had longstanding ties to the film festival in Havana.