Sentences with phrase «unknown novelist»

How does an unknown novelist end up a bestselling author?
They think an editor will work for a share of their royalties, because their book is such a wonder, movie producers will be lining up for the rights, and publishers will be printing hundreds of thousands of hardbacks for the first print run for an unknown novelist.
Mike points out the sobering reality facing unknown novelists.

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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 real - life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.
In the world of literature, writers famous for shunning the limelight include the novelists J. D. Salinger and Harper Lee, but American poet, Emily Dickinson, unknown as a writer in her lifetime, may have been seriously agoraphobic.
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