More than any other major novelist, he provides us with a full-blown case history.

In a sense, this is a reflection of the fact that the major novelists come from the ingenious young short-story writers, by and large.

When a major American novelist has any sort of opinion about me it's pretty impressive.

The first full-length biography of a major novelist who explored every Briton's life but his own.

After all, he was the last major English novelist whose work was so infectious, so dangerous, that it had to be burned.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with a major novelist gathering up her or his incidental writings and making a book out of them.

The major novelists of the time were not neglected.

The Percy family history in particular seems well suited to produce a major novelist.

The first major English novelist, Daniel Defoe, was a merchant.