She writes a novel that earns her both literary distinction and unwelcome curiosity about her family's real story.

Curtis returned from Europe in 1850, attractive, accomplished, and ambitious for literary distinction.

But unlike publishers, Ms. Willis is free to make her choices based on literary distinction.

It is dedicated to literary distinction in history and biography.

As it turns out, "Madame de" is a slim novella of no great literary distinction.

Its purpose is to promote literary distinction in historical writing.

Hence their letters have no literary distinction, and were certainly not written with publication in mind.

Although Rivière spent most of his adult life as a naval officer, he was also ambitious for literary distinction.

That is an interesting literary distinction, but I do not think that it is much more than that.

No sooner was its literary distinction acknowledged than he instantaneously transformed the book into a play.