novelist
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In the following days, hundreds of cats were delivered to Twain’s Manhattan residence by owners hoping to meet the novelist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The prolific novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates introduces readers to Julia, one half of a couple whose long marriage has come to contain strange, submerged, undiscussable elements in “The Disappearing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In June, he added novelist to an already stacked resume with “Palmdale,” his incredibly entertaining dirtbag-noir debut about a PI and his estranged daughter reuniting over a case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Ware, a novelist, wrote the book because she and her husband, journalist Tony Cook, “did everything wrong” in downsizing their homes six times in 10 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
This was all distilled for me in a quote I once read from the novelist Saul Bellow.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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For decades, bestseller lists and prestigious literary awards have featured Jewish novelists from Philip Roth to Michael Chabon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
But at our best, we novelists probe deeper truths precisely because the facts cannot always, ever, be totally known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most recently, Communion was included on the Observer's best debut novelists of 2026 - a list which previously picked out bestsellers including Rooney's Conversation with Friends and The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
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