Sentence examples for minor author from inspiring English sources

In many of her public and private particulars, Frances has lived ("usurped" might be a better word) Weldon's life, while in the novel's alternate universe Weldon herself is relegated to being a minor author of cookbooks.

She talks of McCullers's work as if it were comparable to Faulkner's, and when Arthur Miller characterizes McCullers as a "minor author" she lashes out at him, adding, "One almost gets the impression that although he himself was still among the living, Arthur Miller wanted to make certain that Carson McCullers would not literally outlast him".

Even minor authors can pick out irregularities that the bigwigs don't spot.

Similar ideas are also to be found in minor authors such as Frain du Tremblay, Brumoy, or Trublet.

1429) in his Summa Naturalium and Sophismata, Gaetano of Thiene (1387 1465), who commented on the works (probably 1422 30), Paul of Pergula (d. 1456), who also commented on Heytesbury's works, and a score of more minor authors.

The work, although containing no philosophical argument, deserves closer study as it is full of references to major and minor authors, providing good evidence for the vitality of the literary tradition as a backdrop for pagan philosophy in late antiquity.

Reagan did it with the untutored ramblings of a minor fiction author, Ayn Rand.

This may sound like a minor problem; authors already contend with an enormous domestic market for secondhand books.

Sure, bankers, CEOs, minor royalty, authors and celebrities – Charlize Theron, Paulo Coelho – are all wandering around the remote Alpine aerie in a self-congratulatory fugue state, chatting smugly about Big Ideas.

One minor quibble: the author misidentifies the Rad Lab's home, M.I.T.'s legendary Building 20.

Tobias Smollett in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) gave his reader a self-portrait as a minor character, an author called "S-, whom you and I have long known by his writings".