(One of the most noted, and notorious, writers of this genre was the female poet Mahsatī [first half of the 12th century], who frequently addressed members of different professions in rather frivolous lines).
One of the most notorious writers of her times, Royall shattered the ceiling of participation for politicized women a generation before the suffrage ranks of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and issued the "voice of woman" into the backroom male bastions of banking and politics nearly two centuries before politicians like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.
His best work ("The Naked and the Dead," "Armies of the Night") might have been largely behind him, but he was America's best-known and most notorious writer, as famous for his deeds off the page as on.
The appointment of Mr. Penn is a modest breakthrough for older people on television, an industry where age discrimination is notorious and writers, producers and directors over 50 or even 40 try to hide how old they are.
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.
Someone involved in "Beat Street" saw early footage of "Style Wars," which featured a notorious graffiti writer named Cap, who went around writing over everyone's murals.
Our most notorious letter-writer was a guy who penned a note to Bill Clinton about poor prison conditions, jerked off on said letter, and mailed it.
While the week-long tour largely went as planned, with the veterans describing their experiences in local high schools along with actual camp survivors, the final night of their stay in Passau, the tour organizer, a notorious German writer named Anna Rosmus, dropped an unexpected, and even unwelcome, surprise on the veterans and their families.
Notoriously unreliable, massively successful New York writer Michael Wolff has called notoriously notorious, massively wealthy freelance diplomat Tony Blair a "complete liar".
It really has been a notorious year for writers, cartoonists, bloggers, and journalists.
Where is the optimism in a writer notorious for dark and weighty philosophic tomes?
