novelist
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In 1935, at Isherwood’s request, he married Erika Mann, a daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann, so she could obtain a British passport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
If you’d told readers two decades ago that Whitehead would become a bestselling crime novelist, they might have thought you were kidding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The novelist Muriel Spark was as elusive as her characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Last week its president, novelist Dinaw Mengestu, resigned to protest a report defending creative expression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“The past is never dead,” wrote the American novelist William Faulkner, a son of the South.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
When not looking backward, or inward to personal traumas, American novelists have turned their gaze to the uncertain future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But within this current crop of TV movies and series, many novelists have been content to serve in a consultant capacity and leave the scripts to the screenwriters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
It also earned 28-year-old Salam a place on the Observer's list of the best debut novelists of 2026, with the paper saying "his raucous, wildly inventive prose is bound for a much bigger audience".
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
This bold debut earned “Jackson Alone” wide praise and Japan’s Bungei Prize, awarded to first-time novelists, and makes Ando, now in his early 30s, a writer to watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
National defense and global prestige, of course, were the two concerns that had moved the reverie of space travel from the purview of novelists and eccentrics to the country’s number-one priority.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
