Sentences with phrase «known as a novelist»

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Some information about each of these troubled, talented men: F. Scott Fitzerald (1896 - 1940) Fitzgerald is best known as a novelist who portrayed, and indeed coined the term, the Jazz Age.

After retiring from academia he became known as a novelist and shared the Prêmio Jabuti for Literature in 1997.

Gao Xingjian is a famous Chinese artist, primarily known as a novelist and the first Chinese - language Nobel Laurate, but as well as a praised painter and critic.

Not exact matches

To suppose, then, that the actual South known by the novelist and used by him makes him a «Southern writer» only insofar as he uses that knowledge as a matter convenient to his form is to misunderstand the complexity of place to the soul.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

The Marxist - Leninist vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.

The bolts and chains, under the weight of which the prisoners are described as groaning, are no less creatures of the novelist's fancy; the use of such restrictions being entirely unknown, except when they were necessary to restrain a determined suicide.

The Chinese - American novelist Maxine Hong Kingston remembers that her mother would often talk - story to her at night as she went to sleep, making it impossible to know where the stories left off and dreams began.

Here he is introducing Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Evelyn Waugh's grandson, Alexander: Here is the story of four generations of Waughs, told with wit and brio... [it] reveals aspects of the novelist's poisonous relationship with his father, Arthur, that have never been given adequate attention... The book opens with a portrait of Arthur's father, Alexander, otherwise known as «the Brute» who... with his booming voice... and mad, piercing eyes... terrified family and associates alike.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

As the late British novelist Susan Ertz observed, «Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.»

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Novelist, poet and playwright Kevin Craig, long known as KTC on Absolute Write, set some time aside for an interview, just days after release of his sixth

Thanks to his erudite TV talk - show appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, Vidal has joined that special fraternity known as the celebrity novelist.

Perhaps best known as a photojournalist, Parks was also a novelist, poet, musician, and filmmaker.

Many film fans are familiar with the work of the late novelist Patricia Highsmith, whether they know it or not, as her books have been adapted into several films including

Or, Dana, to take your example, Elle, the screenplay for which was originally written as a planned Americanization of French novelist Philippe Djian's Oh... (I haven't read it so I don't know if the movie's dopey climax originates there) and for which Verhoeven hoped to sign Nicole Kidman.

I loved what [author] Jeff [VanderMeer] had done but one thing I know... Years ago I used to work as a novelist and I know that novels & films are independent of each other.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

Kazuo Ishiguro is credited as an executive producer on Never Let Me Go and novelist / screenwriter Alex Garland (best known for The Beach and the script for 28 Days Later) is credited as writer.

«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

With little else to keep me interested as the story stumbled along, I did enjoy keeping track of all the trendy names of various minor supporting characters, from high - priced bodyguards Taylor and Sawyer and Prescott to the novelist Boyce Fox to the architect known as Gia Matteo to the bank manager Troy Whelan.

Alain Robbe - Grillet is best known as an experiment novelist in the nouvelle roman movement of the fifties and as the screenwriter of Alain Resnais» elegant yet conceptually daring French nouvelle vague landmark Last Year at Marienbad.

Anderson has given hints to the tone and story, citing little - known Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, filmmaker Billy Wilder, and the warm comedies of Ernst Lubitsch as inspirations.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Certainly those who haven't read novelist Ernest Cline's new classic will enjoy it more, but diehard fans of the book can dive into the adventure too, as long as they let go any expectation of it following the story, and even much of the characterization, they know.

The most well - known contemporary Slovenian authors include the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, the novelist and translator Ales Steger as well as the children's book author and illustrator Lila Prap.

For example, a romance novelist who wants to attract romance readers would employ a concentrated strategy, that is to say, this is a large population of readers — and we aren't segmenting them by saying we only want a small subset of those readers, no as a romance writer we want them all because we know our readers read cross sub-genre.

Once known as the «richest town in the world,» Brookline became known in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the home of significant figures in the worlds of arts and culture: architect Henry Hobson Richardson, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, poet Amy Lowell, and novelist Saul Bellow all called Brookline home.

Murakami, one of Japan's best - known contemporary novelists and often touted as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

No, being a novelist was actually my childhood dream, and I've been putting my writing in front of friends and family for as long as I can remember.

As readers of my blog know, branding is a hot topic for novelists.

Dan is a professional editor, who'll be giving a developmental edit to this recently - completed draft of the novel; and he's a poet and novelist, as you know, whose output includes the brilliant novel Songs from the Other Side of the Wall.

«Simon as in the novelist or as in the publisher or as in Simon but you don't know him?»

As a novelist he is best known for The Forsyte Saga about an upper - middle class «new money» family.

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

Most people know Emma Donoghue (no relation, unless you go way back to the roots buried in the bog) as the author of Room, but she has been a prolific novelist and writer of short stories, mysteries, literary history and much more.

Kelly, who was referred to by the head of the institute where the DNA identification took place as «the most controversial individual that Victoria has produced,» has inspired more than one piece of art, but the biggest standout for readers is the take on his life provided by Australia's best - known novelist Peter Carey.

Before this book, Atkinson was known mostly as a crime novelist, but this is an absolutely brilliant work of literature.

I know it's not all that cut and dry, and I've not experienced ANY of this first hand, but that's just the way I have looked at the publishing process when I first decided to make «novelist» as my career goal.

As Pulitzer Prize ‑ winner Robert Olen Butler (a novelist who also writes flash fiction) has said, «Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.»

They read lots of poetry, as well as novels by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and some Afghan and Iranian novelists whose names no one knows in the rest of the world.

As a novelist, though, I'm interested less in exploring events themselves than in using them for my own purposes, and for a long time I didn't know what that purpose would be.

As a novelist, he is perhaps best known for his Burke series of mysteries.

In her story of the Bennet servants, British novelist Baker has succeeded in creating a world that stands on its own, even as it builds on the «Austenverse» that fans have come to know and love.

«A strange and beautiful work, this masterful narrative proves that Atwood can do anything as a novelist,» says Hale, who knows her literary fiction (in addition to having an MFA, she's been writing this column for nearly 10 years!).

And yet, as novelist David Treuer wryly observes in his sobering yet quietly redemptive book, Rez Life, in spite of how involved Indians have been in America's business, most people will go a lifetime without ever knowing an Indian or spending time on an...

As an avid mystery reader, you undoubtedly know there are countless wonderful women crime novelists, most of whom have equal male - female audiences.

I need to prioritise as I've also joined the romantic novelists association and need to write a new book by August - No pressure then??? Wish me luck.