novelist

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Having such quick commercial success as a debut novelist has been very challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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 book beat out a story about a suburban witch by French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye as well as Brazilian Ana Paula Maia's dystopian read about a brutal prison colony.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel