Lodge's major influences include other English Catholic novelists (the subject of his MA dissertation), notably Graham Greene.

They were an unlikely pair: a Roman Catholic novelist and critic, very American and open to experience, and a German-born Jewish philosopher of considerable reserve.

When critics started to study the religious faith in his work, Greene complained that he hated the term 'Catholic novelist'.

Graham Greene's Morin, the failed French Catholic novelist, inhabits the lonely no-man's-land between unbelief and faith.

In time he was called modern Japan's most distinguished Catholic novelist.

She is often compared and contrasted with the Japanese Catholic novelist Endo Shusaku, who lived around the same time.

Gilbert Pinfold is a middle-aged Catholic novelist teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Isaac Butler at Parabasis has recently been reading the Catholic novelist James Carroll's excellent (non-fiction) book Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews.

He remained in self-imposed exile in Japan, where he resided with his friend, the famous Catholic novelist Ayako Sono.

Isabel C. Clarke (died 1951) was a Catholic novelist and biographer, and author of over fifty books.