1.   Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.

2.   The Callaveros County frog jumping contest was immortalised by the American novelist, Mark Twain.

3.   American novelists love the city, and they love hating it, too.

4.   An American novelist and reporter, Meyer Levin, helped Otto Frank popularize the American version of the diary.

5.   American novelists.

6.   Anne Tyler is my very favorite living American novelist.

7.   As with American novelists like Jay McInerney, his bad-boy appeal has dipped into the cult of celebrity.

8.   Destiny is something that few contemporary American novelists consider as part of a story.

9.   His previous marriages to Clarissa Luard and to Marianne Wiggins, the American novelist, ended in divorce.

10.   His subject was the early American novelist Charles Brockden Brown.