21.   That same year, as Clinton recalled, William Faulkner, the great American novelist, acknowledged the fear of nuclear annihilation that then gripped much of the world.

22.   The American novelists paint on a much bigger canvas.

23.   Wharton was the one American novelist who could write as a member of the upper crust and find its moral center.

24.   Jardine told The Times that the scale, power and sheer number of American novelists would demand fundamental changes to the Booker.