31.   At the time, Frazier was unknown, it was his first novel and not yet finished.

32.   Before his first novel was published, he worked at a travel agency.

33.   Because his dissertation had been highly regarded, he thought that his first novel had bestseller potential.

34.   Before Steinbeck even wrote his first novel, he left.

35.   Both hilarious and moving, this first novel traces the journey toward wisdom of a Chinese-American son of immigrants.

36.   - Jimmy Carter is writing his first novel, set in Georgia during the Revolutionary War.

37.   A bold first novel about the making of a kept mistress.

38.   A first novel about an American au pair in France.

39.   A first novel about the decline of an Indian family.

40.   A first novel is often done while a writer juggles a job and sleep.