Since the Norwegian Forest cat is a very adept climber, author Claire Bessant believes that the skogkatt folktale could be about the ancestor of the modern Norwegian Forest breed.
It is this sort of beautiful prose, both heartbreaking and joyful, and the unforgettable character of Mami that solidifies Santiago's place alongside other great authors adept in capturing setting and creating characters who transcend their books' pages: Horatio Alger, Jamaica Kincaid and Frank McCourt, for instance.
Sometimes referred to as the land-bound equivalent of Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea, this novel has not enjoyed the same enduring popularity, though both authors are adept in portraying the wearying strain of constant alert.
However, this should not be interpreted as deference to one's contemporaries or as an attempt to quell controversy, since authors became adept at signaling their opponents without actually naming them, paraphrasing or parodying their views or catchphrases as modes of ridicule or play.
Wollstonecraft has what scholar Cora Kaplan labelled in 2002 a "curious" legacy that has evolved over time: "for an author-activist adept in many genres ... up until the last quarter-century Wollstonecraft's life has been read much more closely than her writing".
As the experiments progressed, the authors became adept at recognizing and discarding contaminated measurements and could proceed without the verifications.
He jumps off the page, to the palpable gratification of an author who is adept at sparkling quotation (in his own translations from the French) and punchy narrative.
Elsewhere the author proves highly adept with the "on the one hand/on the other" formula, one of the most valuable tools for a writer concerned with attaining his assigned word count, and says, for example, of "Brave New World": "Many people consider this Huxley's most important work: many others think it is his only work.
As a skillful clinical acupuncturist with a license for over 30 years, the second author (Gong) is adept at the treatment of gynecological diseases.
Few authors are more adept at translating technical jargon into graceful prose, or at illustrating how hubris and greed can cause geniuses to lose their way.
(The New Yorker wrote, of "Katy and the Big Snow," "Another unusual picture book by this author artist, who is adept at personifying machines.
