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A novelist's style should serve his subject matter and transform it into art.

A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand 2010

It's a novelist's challenge: how much research do you do; how much imagination do you bring into your story?

Nashville Chrome: The Legacy Of A Forsaken Country Trio 2010

Edel had been a journalist, and behind his scholarly triumphs was his persuading William James's son Harry that he, above all others interested in Henry James, had the novelist's and his family's reputation at heart.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

Language, style, narrative drive and characterization are a novelist's basic tools; they must always be deployed to the limits of their power.

A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand 2010

A strong plot and a wonderful supporting cast make this Canadian novelist's debut delightfully entertaining.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: Summary and book reviews of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. 2009

This is the difficulty that hampers Deborah Hopkinson's "A Boy Called Dickens" Schwartz & Wade/Random House, 40 pages, $17.99 , a picture book for readers ages 5-8 about the Victorian novelist's boyhood.

Get Yourself Ready To Be Blown Away Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012

Andrea Levy, whose novel The Long Song is set in Jamaica in the 1830s, said that the almost complete absence of accounts of the period by enslaved people allowed fiction to come "into its own in this type of story", with the novelist's imagination filling in the blanks of history.

Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011

But Mr. Conlon, ­already showing a mature novelist's skill, has produced an accomplished work full of wisdom and adrenaline, contemplation and action, pride and regret.

Sleuths and the City Tom Nolan 2011

Prosecutors alleged that Evan Snapper used funds from Cornwell to reimburse donors without the novelist's knowledge.

Several big donors to Hillary Clinton now facing criminal allegations 2011

Alienated, angry outsiders stalk the dangerous edges of their unraveling lives in the great American novelist's collection of grim short fiction.

Fun with Problems by Robert Stone: Book summary 2010