11.   It was only after leaving Poland that she started to read James and understand what the American novelist was doing with his finely observed studies of stratified bourgeois society.

12.   Legion are the young American novelists who have moved to Paris in the belief that this muse-city would release their innate talents.

13.   Lewis was one of a pair of scholars who helped rescue Wharton from the dusty racks of used-book stores and reestablish her as a major American novelist.

14.   Like American author Styron, she regretted the absence of British writer Doris Lessing and American novelist Mary McCarthy.

15.   Like American author William Styron, she regretted the absence of South African writer Doris Lessing and American novelist Mary McCarthy.

16.   No American novelist has been able to remain so successfully a part of, yet apart from, Hollywood.

17.   Of the great American novelists, few were so uncomfortable in it and none was more private.

18.   One of those boys would become an important American novelist, James T. Farrell.

19.   Since then, American novelists have created a yeasty muster of private investigators and other enduring apprehenders of evildoers.

20.   Solemnized now as a classic American novelist, she shares the throne about equally with Edith Wharton.