Read more novelist stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8595/novelist.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:27:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71240/german-novelist-herta-mueller-wins-nobel-for-literature.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born German novelist and poet whose work has explored the brutality of life under the Ceausescu dictatorship. Deprived of her job and threatened by the regime, she fled to Germany in 1987. The Land of Green Plums , published...http://www.newser.com/story/71240/german-novelist-herta-mueller-wins-nobel-for-literature.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 6:43:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70631/gore-vidal-hillary-wouldve-been-the-better-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGore Vidal is 83 and uses a wheelchair now, but the legendary American writer hasn't lost any of his strong opinions—not least on Barack Obama, who is doing "dreadfully" and has "fucked up" health reform. Vidal supported Obama after originally backing Hillary Clinton, but now thinks she'd be the...http://www.newser.com/story/70631/gore-vidal-hillary-wouldve-been-the-better-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 8:51:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70506/danielle-steel-aide-fesses-to-400k-ripoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA long-time assistant has pleaded guilty to embezzling $400,000 from best-selling romance queen Danielle Steel. Kristy Watts admitted depositing checks for Steel into her own bank account and using the author's credit card points to obtain gifts and airline tickets. Steel, who has written 76 best-selling novels, claims Watts...http://www.newser.com/story/70506/danielle-steel-aide-fesses-to-400k-ripoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 6:46:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68093/modern-novels-shift-we-can-understand-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 21st-century novel is being reacquainted with an old friend: the plot. Today's best writers are abandoning the notion that literary novels need to be all but impenetrable to readers without advanced degrees, writes Lev Grossman in the Wall Street Journal . "The revolution is under way," he says. "The novel...http://www.newser.com/story/68093/modern-novels-shift-we-can-understand-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Aug 2009 10:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67031/biography-bares-lord-of-the-flies-authors-demons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an unpublished autobiography, the author of Lord of the Flies described his attempted rape of a 15-year-old when he was about 18, the Times of London reports. While walking with the girl, he “felt sure she wanted heavy sex, as this was visibly written on her pert, ripe and...http://www.newser.com/story/67031/biography-bares-lord-of-the-flies-authors-demons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Aug 2009 11:42:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56614/cult-writer-jg-ballard-dead-at-78.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish author JG Ballard died this morning "with great sadness" after many years of poor health, his agent said today. The 78-year-old novelist and short story writer was most famous for his semi-autobiographical book Empire of the Sun , later made into a film by Steven Spielberg, and his controversial novel...http://www.newser.com/story/56614/cult-writer-jg-ballard-dead-at-78.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Apr 2009 17:30:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe , calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times , the first line of his story A&P displays a “durability that authors can...http://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 15:44:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39788/chick-lit-meet-manfiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith women taking the bestseller charts by storm, publishers may consider the male reading audience negligible, but that’s far from the case, writes Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly . In fact, men have their own form of chick lit—he calls it “manfiction”—which features the male equivalent of the “escape...http://www.newser.com/story/39788/chick-lit-meet-manfiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Oct 2008 12:57:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39099/rodanthe-author-still-loves-himself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNicholas Sparks may run low on creative gas, but that only lasts for a minute or two. The multimillionaire author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe works out for nearly 3 hours a day before writing 2,000 words and coaching track at his son's school. ''I'm efficient," he...http://www.newser.com/story/39099/rodanthe-author-still-loves-himself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 03 Oct 2008 19:11:00 CDT