Ballard evoked the deadly allure of automobiles in his novels, and even exhibited crashed cars.
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Ironic, given that there's no computer in his home office--Patterson writes all his novels in longhand.
The author draws upon his rural upbringing in his novels, mixing historical perspective with mythical elements.
It is clear from his novels that Mr O'Brian was half in love with Ireland.
His novels, some of which are also excellent, fall into two categories: the historical and the proselytising.
Peter Ackroyd's obsession with the mythology of London has long been apparent from his novels and biographies.
When he used a laptop to type his novels, he did so only after disabling its wireless connectivity.
"He has the rare distinction that his novels were considered classics of the genre within his lifetime, " he added.
Unlike his Cuban finca, he didn't make it a character in his novels.
Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, a prolific writer known for his novels and political commentary, died Tuesday.
Four of his novels were made into films, while another was serialized for television and a fifth was dramatized for radio.
His novels have generally dealt in the deep emotional conflicts in Japanese love and marriage, particularly the pathos and tragedy of infidelity.
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By now, Hiaasen could easily retire from newspapers and write his novels.
Almost all of his novels have been optioned for film, although so far just one, "Tell No One, " has been made in France.
And while I love his novels, even better are his short stories.
And Emile Zola published several of his novels in installments for magazines.
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Under his transparent pseudonym (the name Malagrowther is a character in one of his novels), Sir Walter wrote three letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal.
Dickens also satirised the law in his novels, such as Bleak House, the tale of a decades-long court case that destroys most of its participants.
But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.
Sir Frank expounds on the importance of music in Forster's work, including the use of literary leitmotifs that run through his novels like musical themes.
The media will say Fellowes is right wing, as the title of this piece does, but his novels point to an ideology far more advanced than conservatism.
While Hardy is better known for his novels and poetry, he also took part in musical performances at Stinsford Church and his home at Max Gate near Dorchester.
That approach has been so successful that he has even fooled a military special operations source who mistakenly believed Gilstrap had divulged classified technical information in one of his novels.
The issue: One of the characters in the movie Midnight in Paris mentions Faulkner by name and voices a brief (and slightly modified from the original) quote from one of his novels.
"They weren't just jokes to me, they were attitude, " he said, a tad defensively, when I pointed out that, by my count, some of his novels had up to 10 jokes per page.
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Befitting his criticisms of the U.S., Mr. Vidal moved in the 1960s to a villa in Italy where he wrote his novels and continued to throw bombs via essays in the New York Review of Books.
Hawthorne, most famous for his novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, also wrote a short story collection called Mosses from an Old Manse, in which he christened the house.
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