That was the question posed in a letter to tech journo Farhad Manjoo and advice columnist Emily Joffe in one my favorite features over at Slate, Manners for the Digital Age, a podcast dedicated to tackling novel etiquette questions in the Internet age.
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Oh, and here's an interesting footnote: the original Kindle was apparently codenamed "Fiona" after Fiona Hackworth in Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age.
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He started his first novel, The Rats, at the age of 28 and completed it within 10 months.
The publisher describes the novel as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and a mission patrolling the demilitarized zone in Korea.
He wrote his first novel aged 11 and attended Harvard at the age of 16 to study aeronautical engineering.
Pushed to get a law degree by his lawyer father, he toiled as a stockbroker, not publishing his first novel until 1863, at the ripe old age of 35.
Rodenbach's brief novel centers on Hugues Viane, a middle-age widower who, distraught at his wife's death several years before, moves to Bruges.
Unlike his father, Vidal showed no interest in sports and took to writing at age 14, joined the Navy at 17 and published his first novel, the World War II-themed "Williwaw, " while on night watch in port at 19.
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While researching the lives of such amputees for my novel, I spoke to DeWalt Mix, who at the age of 27 was in a devastating motorcycle accident.
Mr Bakopoulos's well-told debut novel is the first-person story of the coming-of-age of one of the sons, Michael Smolij (16 when his father vanished) and his friends.
Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
It was Roth's genius to put a universal theme into a historical novel that retains all its power in our own not-so-post-imperial age.
He paints a novel picture of a British prime minister, William Gladstone, acting like a New-Age healer and helping to relieve his wife's aching breasts, strained after years of child rearing, by gently stroking them.
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dali, Picasso and Man Rey and gets his novel critiqued by Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway a dream come true for someone who idealizes Jazz Age Paris as a golden age for creativity.
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