Cecilia finished a journalism degree last year and decided to work on her novel.
Her novel begins before the first world war and concludes midway through the second.
So it comes as something of a surprise to discover that she is almost as enigmatic as her novel.
Many believe Ayn Rand got her inspiration for Taggart Transcontinental in her novel Atlas Shrugged from the Great Northern.
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The feminist icon best known for her novel Fear of Flying is arousing us once again with a current examination of female sexuality.
Morrison, battling the flu and sniffling through much of the afternoon, was promoting the paperback edition of her novel "Home, " published last year.
Her novel "To The Lighthouse" is said to have drawn on memories of her childhood holidays at St Ives and the view of Godrevy Island and its beacon.
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Ms. Geragotelis, 32, a New Yorker who worked as the managing editor of American Cheerleader magazine, began publishing her novel on Wattpad, a community reading site, in January 2011.
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Her novel Beyond Black, about a medium who is tormented by her acquaintances, both the living and the dead, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Though her novel had long been popular, the fictionally dystopian society Rand had written about long ago had in many ways become real, and readers wanted to understand better the picture drawn by this visionary.
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Ms von Lange, who has been dubbed literature's answer to the Spice Girls, saves her novel from sounding too condescending and portentous by injecting a heavy element of comedy into a book intended to upset the grown-ups.
This racket is so lucrative that there is a market for pretending to be a journalist just to bring in payoff money, a premise the writer Yan Geling played on in her novel, The Banquet Bug.
Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.
The musical version of her classic novel "The Color Purple" opens tonight on Broadway.
Three years later, her first novel in hand, she attempted to secure an agent.
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Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
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.
Her debut novel 'Only the Innocent' was one of the top 10bestselling items of the quarter at Amazon.co.uk.
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And Graham knows something about capturing voices, as evidenced in her first novel.
Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, was published in 1985 when she was 25.
Her new novel Bear Witness tells the story of an activist who fights for bears to roam free in Scotland.
She will conclude the nine-day festival with a talk about her acclaimed novel Bring Up The Bodies on Sunday 24 March.
Just the night before, she had turned in the manuscript for her fifth novel before making a fresh-faced appearance on Chelsea Lately.
Her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985.
Her historical novel, Bring Up The Bodies, is up against 19 other titles including six debuts and two previous winners in the long list.
She has lived in eight countries, speaks eight languages and currently splits her time between London and New York while writing her third novel.
She has also launched her own fragrance, co-owned a restaurant chain, published her own novel and even had a record in the Japanese charts.
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