Newly commissioned artwork depicting scenes from all six of her novels is featured on the stamps.
But saying her books are just about women and marriage is a very "unsophisticated reading" of her novels, says Williams.
In her novels as in her letters to Sartre, however, Beauvoir suggested that things were not always that simple.
Her novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader.
Her novels focus on the Tudors -- and in the lecture, she draws a parallel between the current fascination with Catherine's body and the public scrutiny under which the wives of Henry VIII sought to produce a male heir.
Her novels focus on the Tudors -- and in the lecture, she draws a parallel between the current fascination with Catherine's body and the public gaze under which the wives of Henry VIII sought to produce a male heir.
In spite of some of her novels being banned at the time by South Africa's white-only government, the Nobel laureate insists that any author who tries to push a message on a reader ahead of narrative is in danger at best of producing bad writing, and at worst of lapsing into propaganda.
Married in 1930 to eminent archaeologist Max Mallowan, Christie spent two decades living on excavation sites in the Middle East, writing her crime novels and helping out with her husband's work.
The 65-year-old is believed to have sold more than 600 million copies of her 80 novels.
Her other novels include Girls Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction and Altar Ego.
Ms. Rice, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1998, has veered away from monsters in her recent novels, focusing on the life of Jesus Christ and a series about an angel and a hired assassin.
Her ten books, memoirs and novels brought her into contact with universities.
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Ms. Rowling kept the digital book rights to her Harry Potter novels and is expected to begin selling Harry Potter e-books on her website Pottermore later this year.
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The 91-year-old is best known for her series of novels starring detective and poet Adam Dalgleish.
Ms Rice, who sets many of her popular Gothic novels in New Orleans, lives near Straya in the smart Garden District.
Children's Book of the Year was awarded to JK Rowling for the third of her phenomenally successful novels about apprentice wizard Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - a book named by the judges as runner-up to the overall winner.
Lucille Fletcher was once asked her views about sex in novels, and said that much contemporary literature was not really to her taste.
The novels showed her that the emotions and desires she was told to repress were natural and could even be beautiful and right.
Surveying the hundreds of memoirs and novels that lined her hallway, I suddenly felt at home.
Writing crime novels offered an outlet for her dark daydreams.
In the 1990s, she had the idea for the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which would take her signature protagonist, a working-class Southern woman with crime-solving abilities, and add a supernatural twist.
Ally read novels, wrapped up in her duvet beside the central-heating radiator in her bedroom, borrowing them from the center and the public library, sometimes finishing one and starting another without even changing her position or getting up to make coffee, like an addict.
Her business offers advice on producing self-published novels and effectively marketing them.
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Another luminary to be awarded the honour, Toni Morrison, is renowned for her portrayal of the African-American experience in novels such as Song Of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
Over 100 books have been given to her in languages including French and Burmese, along with several dictionaries and novels, Win said.
Weisberger has written three novels since "The Devil Wears Prada, " but this is her first return to the cutthroat world of Runway magazine.
Later Lucille Fletcher wrote novels, all of them with dark themes, but more complex than her radio plays.
Although her first book was a non-fiction title, she has since written three novels which have sold 60, 000 copies, mostly in America.
Miss West returned to Martha's Vineyard in 1947, where she lived amid her own sort of people for the next 50 years and wrote two sharp and wise novels about them.
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