1.   At the height of the Jazz Age, a Hollywood fan magazine asked the English novelist to define celebrity appeal.

2.   A congenial, entertaining, illuminating biography of the most elusive of English novelists.

3.   But a passing contact with the late English novelist Angela Carter nudged her back to her past.

4.   But it also showed how MacMillan and Colin Thubron, an English novelist, had modified the original scenario.

5.   He later had another daughter, Cecily Brown, with the English novelist Shena Mackay.

6.   In his day, the English novelist was the uncontested master of melodrama.

7.   Iris Murdoch, the English novelist and scholar, was one of his first champions, and his fans include Eudora Welty and Tom Stoppard.

8.   Iris Murdoch, the English novelist and scholar, was one of his first champions, and his admirers included Eudora Welty and Tom Stoppard.

9.   She is A.S. Byatt, the Booker Prize-winning English novelist who has become something of a rara avis on the literary landscape.

10.   The English novelist Aldous Huxley would have understood precisely what is taking place in Florida.