novelist

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Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This extraordinary man of parts was a novelist, nature writer, editor, environmentalist, political activist, outdoorsman and Zen master.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Thomas, an English novelist who wrote the surprise best seller “The White Hotel,” died at 88.

From New York Times

Among the some 2,000 people he rescued were the artist Max Ernst, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and the German novelist Heinrich Mann.

From New York Times