Word: novelists
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr., novelist: "He hasn't insulted the intelligence of the American people. Well, it's a dull year...
About 300 people filled a Science Center lecture hall yesterday for an informal discussion with renowned Italian novelist Alberto Moravia...
...year-old journalist, short-story writer, and novelist is known for his simple, clear style and his existential themes. His most famous novels are "The Woman of Rome" and "The Time of Indifference." Moravia is also the author of over 1000 film and book reviews...
Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday Moravia is "without a doubt the greatest living Italian novelist," adding "he is a great professionalist; he lives by writing...
None of the attempts to solve the Drood mystery is an aesthetic or financial success. George Bernard Shaw offers a reason: the novel was "a gesture by a man already three-quarters dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards yet another sort of fiction." That fiction is the modern mystery story, with its careful plotting, its characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although...