novelist

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The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 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

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

Showing his sketches to a major graphic novelist felt like a step.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon