Sentence examples for a major author from inspiring English sources

It's a fair rule of thumb that an unpublished work by a major author is unpublished for a reason.

After a bustling career he turned his back on the film world, rather baffled by the passion that a little of each subsequent generation has shown for a major British success story of which he was a major author.

"Unless you have a major author, you probably have to wait another four to six months to publish that book," said Matthew Shear, the publisher of St. Martin's Press, which puts out Evanovich's Stephanie Plum mysteries.

In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby cites the final scene as "complex and dense and very much in keeping with what a major author is required to give his public in this era of Total Revelation".

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), a novel, Tell My Horse (1938), a blend of travel writing and anthropology based on her investigations of voodoo in Haiti, and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), a novel, firmly established her as a major author.

There is anecdotal evidence of both works being appreciated by those unfamiliar with the inspirations but, while the play and the novel are satisfyingly written and plotted in their own right, they are best experienced as dazzling adjuncts to the work of a major author of the past by a considerable author of the present.

I can name a few major authors from my generation – David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, maybe Franzen – but in the past, say, decade and a half I couldn't tell you one up and comer.

Samuel Richardson, a prosperous London printer, was the next major author to respond to the challenge.

With a major the author sets off in a jeep.

His estate was the first of a major British author to be bought, in 2007, by an American literary agency, sparking a trend.

By the time of the publication of Austerlitz, his masterpiece, in September 2001, Sebald was unmistakably a major European author, and his admirers were already predicting a Nobel prize.