novelist

While I’m hesitant to claim that Schoenbrun’s primary strength is as a novelist rather than a filmmaker, “Public Access Afterworld” goes some distance toward making that case.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Dracula comes from Central Europe by way of the Irish novelist Bram Stoker; the werewolf is a staple of French and German folk tales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Bobby Robotowitz” follows Dina, a flailing novelist, mother and wife, as she begins chatting with Bobby, whom she finds an unlikely confidant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Edgeworth was the most commercially successful novelist of her era until Walter Scott.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“The poor had come lean and hungry out of the terrible winter that followed the World’s Fair,” wrote novelist Robert Herrick in The Web of Life.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Barr comes off as a caricature of the “great male narcissists,” as David Foster Wallace memorably smeared postwar novelists such as Norman Mailer and John Updike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Its suggestiveness has made music a subject of perennial fascination to novelists, who work with a very different tool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Tens of thousands of comments on BookTok, a popular book community on TikTok, attest to the popularity of one of Russia's greatest novelists with the social media generation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

There’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

There were bound volumes of the Banker’s Journal and the Stockbroker’s Gazette, and complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill