Sentence examples for notorious author from inspiring English sources

Carl Van Vechten, the notorious author of "Nigger Heaven," started out as a music critic for the Times; he witnessed "The Rite of Spring" and embraced Stravinsky as a savior.

It represented a rich new linguistic direction in her writing, and she said she would like to hear the play read without an audience knowing it was by the notorious author of Blasted - to see how they responded.

A week after submitting a young adult novel anonymously to editors, James Frey, the notorious author of "A Million Little Pieces," and a writing partner, Jobie Hughes, have sold North American rights to "I Am Number Four" to HarperCollins Children's Books.

By the time The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor was rediscovered and reissued in the early 70s, attracting extravagant praise from such writers as Symons and Frederic Raphael, Borneman was already the celebrated, sometimes notorious author of Lexikon der Liebe und Erotik and the monumental Das Patriarchat, which became a key text of the German women's movement.

Nevertheless his principal activity was as an editor and a writer; he was considered one of the most widely-read scholars of his time (greatly aided by his fluency in many languages), as well as a notorious author.

Did the two ever compare notes on their approaches to the notorious author?

Al Pacino, in town for the premiere of his Oscar Wilde-themed documentary "Wilde Salome" found his portrayal of the notorious author-performer to be similarly compelling -- how else to explain the throngs which surrounded him from the Castro Theater to the Fairmont Hotel?

We spoke about Libya, notorious French author Michel Houellebecq, and the benefits of being disliked by the public and the press.

"It's not that he's a bomb suspect, it's that he's notorious," Sheila Isenberg, author of "Women Who Love Men Who Kill," told the site.

A notorious rake and author of the pornographic "Essay on Woman".

By then Amélie had become notorious as the author of a scandalizing novel, "The Quick or the Dead?" (It is still in print, as are many of her writings).