Mailer found success young with his first novel, "The Naked and the Dead" published in 1948.
Three years later, her first novel in hand, she attempted to secure an agent.
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In addition, I am writing my first novel and working on two other books.
Broadcaster Simon Mayo has been nominated for a prestigious literary award for his first novel, Itch.
Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
My actual first novel, started as an undergraduate at Cornell, took maybe two or three years.
This is her first novel, and it's good enough that we should wish for many more.
The actress also published her first novel in 2009, The Mistress, which featured on the bestsellers list.
His first novel, which has been nominated for a National Book Award, makes local color intimately familiar.
Born in Fife, Banks studied at Stirling University before publishing his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984.
He started his first novel, The Rats, at the age of 28 and completed it within 10 months.
He published Long Lankin, a collection of short stories, in 1970, while his first novel was 1971's Nightspawn.
Dow Chemical Co. started selling a new plastic last year, the first novel version of polypropylene in 30 years.
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He wrote his first novel aged 11 and attended Harvard at the age of 16 to study aeronautical engineering.
And Graham knows something about capturing voices, as evidenced in her first novel.
In 2010, only the first novel cracked the top ten at number five.
Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, was published in 1985 when she was 25.
Here are a couple of illustrations from his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928), just before his conversion to Catholicism.
The day he began his first novel was selected for its auspicious quality by his grandmother, a devotee of horoscopes.
His first novel, dedicated to a British Jewish novelist, Linda Grant, is a slim but potent meditation on memory and exile.
Her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985.
My first novel was recounted in the third person and described, with fair autobiographical fidelity, my growing up with an autistic brother.
His first novel, The Golden Gate, was a huge bestseller (more than 100, 000 copies in the U.S. and over 10, 000 in Britain).
The cat, Emmylou, kept me company while I wrote my first novel.
Debut author Francesca Segal won the first novel category for The Innocents.
Schoolteacher Ian Holding from Zimbabwe was chosen for his first novel, Unfeeling.
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The first novel section was won by Susan Fletcher for Eve Green, beating the favourite Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
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Sinclair has also turned to writing in recent years, although his first novel Seventy Times Seven, is perhaps darker than Grogan's children's book.
His first novel in more than a decade is a study of what can happen to Muslims who flout the conventions of their religion.
Of course the book jacket of Snobs alerted me to the fact that Fellowes already had a successful track record beyond his first novel.
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