1.   The imaginative chat-show host was now asking the large American author where he got his ideas from.

2.   This one particular book is called Carrie, and is written by the famous American author, Stephen King.

3.   American authors too.

4.   American authors and titles dominate the best-seller lists in Germany, as they do in most other parts of Europe.

5.   Among the American authors he dealt with were Willa Cather, Ira Gershwin, John Hersey, and Robert Nathan.

6.   Also that year, Vidal was asked in The Antioch Review who the most underrated American author was.

7.   But with Ken Kesey no longer with us, the list of major living American authors with a deep understanding of wrestling begins and ends with John Irving.

8.   Earlier this year, another big German publisher, Bertelsmann, acquired Random House, prompting concerns among some American authors about the German inroads.

9.   He also hired an American author, Hartzell Spence, to write his life story.

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