Mailer found success young with his first novel, "The Naked and the Dead" published in 1948.
Broadcaster Simon Mayo has been nominated for a prestigious literary award for his first novel, Itch.
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.
He wrote his first novel aged 11 and attended Harvard at the age of 16 to study aeronautical engineering.
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.
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).
Schoolteacher Ian Holding from Zimbabwe was chosen for his first novel, Unfeeling.
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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.
Cannell, who created hits from "The Rockford Files" to "The A-Team, " was already a TV titan when he published his first novel in 1996.
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Rachel Trezise, from Rhondda, wins through for her collection of short stories, Fresh Apples, while Zimbabwean-based schoolteacher Ian Holding is shortlisted for his first novel, Unfeeling.
Abrams, a producer of "Lost" and the new NBC series "Revolution, " has "created" his first novel (which is being written by Doug Dorst) for release next fall.
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About Author: Sunil Shah is an ex fund manager (Coronation) who is about to publish his first novel. www.whitemansnumbers.com , a financial thriller drilling into the underbelly of stockmarkets.
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.
London (CNN) -- Nearly four decades after he brought an invasion of mutant, flesh-eating rodents to London with his first novel, "The Rats, " UK chiller writer James Herbert has died aged 69.
Thayil, a poet and librettist who has lived in Mumbai, Hong Kong and New York, has called his first novel - one of six books nominated for last year's Booker prize - "nightmarish".
Steven Bochco says his agent prepared him for a more muted reception to his first novel than that of his shows, including "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law, " which tilted the axis of TV culture.
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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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It was as if a beautiful book had been written, but instead of the author finishing his first novel the way he saw fit, someone stood in his way looking exactly like him, and writing something completely off-base, destroying the masterpiece.
Before finding his niche in Middle Eastern detective thrillers, Sussman made his first foray into novel writing down quite a different path.
Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.
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By early 2008, his novel "First Experience, " a story about love and sex in high school, was a top title in one of Tokyo's biggest bookstores.
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On these grounds, any attempt to fictionalise Adolf Hitler should be anathema, yet he is the oblique subject of Norman Mailer's latest novel, his first in a decade.
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