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novelist

DEFINITIONS OF: novelist

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n one who writes novels

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James Agee
United States novelist (1909-1955)
Louisa May Alcott
United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888)
Honore de Balzac
French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)
William Cuthbert Faulkner
United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
Jean Genet
French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
Victor-Marie Hugo
French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
George Meredith
English novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Luigi Pirandello
Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)
Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871-1922)
Emile Zola
French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
Type of:
author, writer
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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