Famous Novelists - page 2

The Most Famous Novelists
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

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Guy de Maupassant was an acclaimed French short story writer and novelist

Bernard Malamud was a prolific American writer and winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Robert Stone is an award winning novelist best known for his novel ‘Dog Soldiers’

John Cheever was a novelist and writer counted amongst the most important fiction writers of the 20th century

Known for his theories of naturalism, Emile Zola was the most prominent novelist of the 19th century France

Carson McCullers was a writer and novelist best known for her work ‘The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter’

Timothy Findley was a notable Canadian writer and playwright

Alberto Moravia was a novelist and journalist of Italian origin

Thomas Hardy was an English poet and novelist, who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement