noun
definition
An author of novels.
definition
An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.
Examples of novelist in a Sentence
As a novelist, meanwhile, he had taken a very high place.
Other eminent residents were Turner, who occupied Sandycombe Lodge, and painted many of his famous works here, Henry Fielding the novelist, and Tennyson.
It is as a novelist that Goethe has suffered most by the lapse of time.
His daughter, Florence Marryat, herself a novelist, published his Life and Letters in 1872.
He marks the period of transition to the younger generation of writers, in the forefront of whom stands the poet and novelist Hachar, who revolutionized the conception of Czech patriotism and is famous for his historical glosses.
In Kaczkowski the Poles found a novelist who treated many periods of their history with great success.
In Henryk Sienkiewicz, the historical novelist, Poland has a modern writer of European reputation.
To these we may add the gifted but unfortunate Sigismund Czak6, Lewis Dobsa, Joseph Szigeti, Ignatius Nagy, Joseph Szenvey (a translator from Schiller), Joseph Gaal, Charles Hugo, Lawrence Toth (the Magyarizer of the School for Scandal), Emeric Vahot, Alois Degre (equally famous as a novelist), Stephen Toldy and Lewis Doczi, author of the popular prize drama Csok (The Kiss).
William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850), the Irish novelist, wrote, in addition to several novels, a Life of the Duke of Wellington (1839-1841 and again 1883), and a History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (1845 and 1891).
He is not a dramatist - his work as such is insignificant - nor a novelist, for, though his two chief works except the Confessions are called novels, Emile is one only in name, and La Nouvelle Helotise is as a story diffuse, prosy and awkward to a degree.
Of a less severe type were Cherbuliez, the novelist; TSpffer, who spread a taste for pedestrianism among Swiss youth; Duchosal, the poet; Marc Monnier, the litterateur; not to mention the names of any persons still living, or of politicians of any date.
The freshness of the new field which was opened up to the imagination - so full of vivid lights and shadows, light-hearted fun, grinding hardship, stirring adventure, heroic action, warm friendships, bitter hatreds - was in exhilarating contrast to the world of the historical romancer and the fashionable novelist, to which the mind of the general reader was at that date given over.
The best novelist of the time was Emilie Flygare-Carlen (1807-1892).
His wife, Helene Nyblom, was well known as a novelist.
She also showed great ability as a novelist, among the best of her books being a series of sketches of country life (1884-1887).
One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Kingsley (Mrs Harrison), has become well known as a novelist under the pseudonym of "Lucas Malet."
His first portrait to attract attention, from its fine quality, was that of George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, now the property of the university of Aberdeen.
A visit to the Rhine, where new interests and the attractions of Maximiliane von Laroche, a daughter of Wieland's friend, the novelist Sophie von Laroche, brought partial healing; his intense preoccupation with literary work on his return to Frankfort did the rest.
He was the father of Alfred Landon Rives (1830-1903), an engineer of some prominence, whose daughter, Amelie Rives (1863-), became well known as a novelist, her best known book being The Quick or the Dead?
While in India he had married (1772) Jane Thackeray, a great-aunt of the novelist.
The novelist Karl Postl (1793-1864), who wrote under the pseudonym of Charles Sealsfield, was born at Poppitz, 22 m.
Alexandria is connected with Bonhill, on the opposite bank of the river, by a bridge which replaced in 1898 one bought three years earlier by the county council from the Smollett family, who have been closely associated with the district since the time of Sir James Smollett, the novelist's grandfather.
The first Swedish novelist was Jakob Henrik Mork (1714-1763).
Drama has rarely flourished in Sweden, but several of the poets mentioned above have written important plays, and, somewhat earlier, the socialistic problempieces of Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello (1849-1893), possessed considerable dramatic talent, working under a direct impulse from Ibsen; but her greatest gift was as a novelist.
Richardson the novelist, in Sir Charles Grandison, wishes there could be a Protestant nunnery in every county, " with a truly worthy divine, at the appointment of the bishop of the diocese, to direct and animate the devotion of such a society "; in 1829 the poet Southey, in his Colloquies (cxiii.), trusts that " thirty years hence this reproach also may be effaced, and England may have its Beguines and its sisters of mercy.
It is difficult to think of a great novella which has not been written by a great novelist.
The movie was based on the life of novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and also starred Mary Steenbergen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, and Alfre Woodard.
He became the most discussed, the most read, the most bought novelist in France - the sale of L'Assommoir being even exceeded by that of Nana (1880) and La Dtbdcle (1892).
But in what follows the identification of this Simon with the Simon of Acts has led the novelist to give play to his fancy.
Too great influence was accorded to them, and the result was that for a long time scarcely a single Rumanian novelist or historian can be mentioned.
Lady Caroline Lamb acquired some fame as a novelist by her romance of Glenarvon, which was published anonymously in 1816 and was afterwards (1865) re-issued under the title of The Fatal Passion.
It is only as a novelist that he deserves consideration.
No Icelandic novelist has as yet equalled Jon Thoroddsen (1819-1868).
The Servians have as yet no great novelist, but they have several very successful writers of short stories.
Remarkable sketches of Galician life are to be found in the works of the German novelist Sacher-Masoch (1835-1895).
The elegant and distinguished young novelist became a favourite at court; his pieces were performed at Compiegne before they were given to the public, and on one occasion the empress Eugenie deigned to play the part of Mme de Pons in Les Portraits de la Marquise.
The successful novelist, who is living comfortably with his fussy butler, decided to contemplate marriage.
Novelist Sean is up against a serious case of writer's block and a shock announcement from his " perfect " new girlfriend.
Tho imperfect, The Perfect Fool would be a promising debut from any nascent novelist.
And when a Poet or a Novelist becomes a demagogue the same applies to him.
I had two particularly inspirational teachers one for English, who was also a novelist, and one for the history of art.
She is a historian and archeologist by profession, and is now a bestselling novelist.
In addition, once every couple of months, I will interview a published novelist to share his or her secrets for success.
One ' unknown " he included was Angela Carter who was later to become a novelist of world stature.
Award winning novelist Zadie Smith, who went to Hampstead School, described comprehensive schools as a microcosm of the world.
He was an English naval officer turned novelist who settled in Langham Norfolk in 1848.
That my nephew was Mark Bradshaw, best-selling novelist?
Perhaps it is asking too much of a first-time novelist to do both.
Marina Warner is a cultural historian and prize-winning novelist whose work includes Indigo and From the Beast to the Blond.
Thursday 1st December Award-winning novelist, Anthony Horowitz, will give two readings to LS and Removes pupils.