novelist

Example Sentences

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Having such quick commercial success as a debut novelist has been very challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Rasheed Newson will talk with novelist Laura Warrell at Octavia’s Bookshelf at 6 p.m.

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

As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O'Farrell's Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the acclaimed novelist might have become a bit starry after the whirlwind few months she's just had.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The novelist Charles Dickens felt Malthus depicted poor people as less than human; in novels such as Oliver Twist, he sought to remedy that, making poor people well-rounded main characters.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman