novelize

“And we’re in this beautiful golden age of television where we can novelize a TV show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020

Lynn Potter knew she had enough for a gripping read and had long planned to novelize the results by working off the letters.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016

Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part homage, part psychological investigation, this novelized portrait of Huisman’s mother captures the life of a charismatic, unstable and exasperating woman — as well as the experience of growing up in her ambit.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

Two years after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” hit theaters, Quentin Tarantino has novelized his Oscar-winning movie, calling the result a “complete rethinking” of the story.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021

Keneally’s book is a novelized version of a true story: how German industrialist and Nazi named Oskar Schindler managed to save 1,200 Jews from transportation to concentration camps.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018

That tale has been embroidered, dramatized, and novelized over the centuries by writers from Ovid—who in one poem has Sappho abjectly renouncing her gay past—to Erica Jong, in her 2003 novel “Sappho’s Leap.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2015

"Mr. Hornblow has novelized the brain-stormy Pittsburg millionaire and a few other matters that make racy reading."

From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Arthur Hornblow

“That was what my mother did,” she said, referring to the act of novelizing one’s life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

Is the author simply novelizing, inventing characters and taking them for a stroll?

From Time Magazine Archive

On the same day, she is seen writing a review of Tolstoy's letters for a little magazine and indulging in that most superfluous of literary activities, novelizing a screenplay.

From Time Magazine Archive

IV The novelizing of plays is frequent and profitable in America in these early years of the twentieth century; and it had been attempted infrequently even in the seventeenth century.

From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews