Famous Novelists - List of Famous Novelists - page 11

A novel is a fictional prose often written as a narrative that portrays characters and events in the form of a long story, usually set in a sequence of events and the people who write them are called novelists. Novels are considerably lengthy and complex in terms of themes, character descriptions, and story settings. They, as a genre of literary fiction, are the longest of narrative prose. This tendency of being lengthy has led to the considerable debate regarding what should constitute the minimum word limit for a piece of prose to be considered a novel. It is generally accepted that any piece of prose fiction longer than 40,000 words be categorized as a novel. Writing a novel takes immense efforts; it is no easy task to develop a plot, create fictional characters, and build a story revolving around them that is interesting enough to make the readers read the entire book and make them want to read more. It is a trend that many a times novelists start out as journalists or short story writers before they attempt writing a novel. If you want to acquaint yourself with some of the most famous people from this profession just go through the biographies presented below. They contain the life stories, professional and personal information, timelines and trivia about some famous novelists.

The Most Famous Novelists

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Charles BukowskiAugust 16, 1920German, AmericanCharles Bukowski was a German-born American novelist, short story writer and poet
Lucy HawkingNovember 2, 1970BritishLucy Hawking is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist
Milan KunderaApril 1, 1929Czech, FrenchMilan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer known for his erotic and political writings
Ahlam MosteghanemiApril 13, 1953AlgerianAhlam Mosteghanemi is a contemporary Algerian poet and novelist
Jeff KinneyFebruary 19, 1971AmericanJeff Kinney is an American author, cartoonist, game designer, and producer
Justine MuskSeptember 2, 1972CanadianJustine Musk is a Canadian author who was once married to billionaire Elon Musk
Rachel Renée RussellMarch 13, 1959AmericanRachel Renée Russell is an American attorney and author of children’s books
Asia ArgentoSeptember 20, 1975ItalianAsia Argento is an Italian actress, model, writer, and director
Neil GaimanNovember 10, 1960BritishNeil Gaiman is an English writer of novels, short stories, children’s books and other literature
Guy de MaupassantAugust 5, 1850FrenchGuy de Maupassant was an acclaimed French short story writer and novelist

George Sand

George Sand was a French novelist

FrenchJuly 1, 180498 views

John Irving

John Irving is an award-winning American novelist and screenwriter

AmericanMarch 2, 1942163 views

Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch was a famous American writer mainly of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction genres

AmericanApril 5, 1917128 views

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A Heinlein was a popular American science fiction writer

AmericanJuly 7, 1907105 views

Richard Ford

Richard Ford is an American writer

AmericanFebruary 16, 1944138 views

Philip Roth

Philip Roth is one of the acclaimed American writers of his generation

AmericanMarch 19, 1933122 views

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy was an American bestselling author who wrote several novels and memoirs

AmericanOctober 26, 1945181 views

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winner author

TurkishJune 7, 1952162 views