novelist

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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

Doyle said he was proud to be the only novelist on this year's list who does not currently live in London.

From BBC • May 31, 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

The novelist lives with his wife, writer Andrea Semple, and their two teenage children in Brighton, England.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan