1.   Among them was Georgi Markov, a prominent author who defected to the West and began broadcasting anti-Communist messages into Bulgaria.

2.   Each, week the New York Times Syndicate offers provocative essays, many written by prominent authors and journalists.

3.   He also represented the estates of such prominent American authors as Thomas Wolfe, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Ayn Rand and Raymond Chandler.

4.   It had already lost some prominent authors, including Steven King.

5.   It had already lost some prominent authors, including Stephen King.

6.   Its success came in the same week that a new wave of prominent authors were entering the electronic market.

7.   More books, more screenplays, maybe a foray into cowriting with prominent authors.

8.   Other prominent authors have woven real-life figures into their fiction, to be sure.

9.   Over the years the law has been used to bar several prominent Marxist authors and intellectual dissidents from visiting the United States.

10.   Q. People are talking about how Houghton may be losing its prominent authors.