Famous Novelists
The Most Famous Novelists | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Guy de Maupassant | August 5, 1850 | French | Guy de Maupassant was an acclaimed French short story writer and novelist |
| J. B. Priestley | September 13, 1894 | British | J.B |
| Chuck Palahniuk | February 21, 1962 | American | Charles Michael ‘Chuck’ Palahniuk is a low key American author and freelance journalist, renowned for his award winning novel ‘Fight Club’ |
| Munshi Premchand | July 31, 1880 | Indian | Munshi Premchand was one of the greatest writers of modern Hindi and Urdu literature |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | July 18, 1811 | British | William Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist |
| Marcel Proust | July 10, 1871 | French | Marcel Proust was a French novelist, essayist, and literary critic, admired for influencing the modernist style of writing |
| John Cheever | May 27, 1912 | American | John Cheever was a novelist and writer counted amongst the most important fiction writers of the 20th century |
| Carson McCullers | February 19, 1917 | American | Carson McCullers was a writer and novelist best known for her work ‘The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter’ |
| Thomas Hardy | June 2, 1840 | British | Thomas Hardy was an English poet and novelist, who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement |
| William Maugham | January 25, 1874 | British | William Maugham was an English playwright, writer and novelist |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, editor and novelist
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is a Nobel Prize winning Austrian novelist and playwright
Andre Malraux
André Malraux was a French novelist and art theorist who became France’s first ‘Minister of Cultural Affairs’
Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, novelist poet, editor and a social historian