novelist

Sylvia Townsend Warner

English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.

Mark Twain

American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

Sigrid Undset

Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old

John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner