1.   Angus Wilson was the best British novelist of the postwar period.

2.   A hotter profile subject is British novelist Jeffrey Archer, whose arrest for meeting with a prostitute has derailed his political career.

3.   British novelist A.S. Byatt is the only woman and non-American so far on the panel, which has no members from racial or ethnic minorities.

4.   British novelist Ian McEwen is a careful person.

5.   British novelist Joanna Trollope thrives on casting a literate light on the domestic circumstances of ordinary people.

6.   But a growing correspondence with British novelist Iris Murdoch began to lead Hester in a different direction, says Fitzgerald.

7.   Dench and Broadbent play celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch and her devoted husband, John Bayley.

8.   Defying most of the unspoken conventions of literary chic, the British novelist Pat Barker writes old-fashioned modernist novels full of lean prose and courageous convictions.

9.   Graham Greene was a British novelist of considerable note.

10.   Greene, a British novelist of moral and psychological complexity, was known as a difficult, often cantankerous figure.