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In a year dedicated to celebrating her 250th birthday — she was born Dec. 16, 1775 — Austen is acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, the author of a half-dozen or so classics, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
More convergences and coincidences: Smith, a novelist to whom success came in his mid-to-late 30s, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
During her years with Ricks, Nelson also edited a selection of fiction by Betty Wahl, a 20th century American writer who was married to fellow Catholic novelist J.F. Powers.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
More explicit is a photo of the British novelist Radclyffe Hall with her lover Una Troubridge.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
More convergences and coincidences: Smith, a novelist to whom success came in his mid-to-late 30s, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
During her years with Ricks, Nelson also edited a selection of fiction by Betty Wahl, a 20th century American writer who was married to fellow Catholic novelist J.F. Powers.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
More explicit is a photo of the British novelist Radclyffe Hall with her lover Una Troubridge.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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