Sentence examples for before literary from inspiring English sources

At the Old Manse, Hawthorne continued to write stories, with the same result as before: literary success, monetary failure.

Among those young talents were E. L. Doctorow and Russell Banks, both of whom Mr. Papaleo discovered before literary celebrity did.

An hour or so later, in a gilded salon of the Hotel Bristol, before literary Paris's smartest, a shabby figure in a baggy sweater and rumpled scarlet jeans took his check and — in the spirit of his novel — declined to wallow in bourgeois expressions of pleasure or gratitude.

Pah! Scoff all you like, but many see this as the future of the publishing industry: authors will have to prove themselves in the dog-eat-dog market of the world wide web before literary houses will even consider taking a look at their manuscripts.

A few years before, Berlioz's literary gifts had won him the post of music critic for the leading Paris newspaper, the Journal des Débats, and his employers wielded political influence.

I have mentioned before how literary festivals encourage the discovery of new authors.

Crying with happiness, and because she knows what James endured before the literary world decided to accept him.

Although he studied law, García Márquez became a journalist, the trade at which he earned his living before attaining literary fame.

Before this literary success, he was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Bad Day at Black Rock" and the co-creator of Mr. Magoo.

We don't get many shots at talking about this stuff before the literary marketplace starts to turn a deaf ear.

John Grisham, a native Arkansan who became a practicing lawyer in Mississippi before reaping literary riches, was an early partner with Mr. Smirnoff.