a promising young writer

Then again, it's not hard to extend the benefit of the doubt to such a promising young writer.

Martin Bannister was once a promising young writer, but somewhere along the line everything went wrong.

I think that O. Henry has ruined many a promising young writer, because they read his "twist" endings in school and spend the rest of their writing careers trying to emulate him.

In a review of the book, the London Morning Post declared it to be a work of a promising young writer, unaware the author was in her seventies at the time.

Mr. Tolins is a promising young writer with a provocative subject; even those who didn't like the play, and there were many, would agree that in better days, there would be a place for it on Broadway.

The red-headed, green-eyed protagonist of Scary Go Round was but an innocent country girl before moving to the big city of Tackleford, establishing herself as a promising young writer at City Limit.

A schizophrenic man pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday, admitting for the first time that he knew what he was doing when he pushed a promising young writer to her death in front of a subway train almost eight years ago.

In a 1945 review in The New York Times, Orville Prescott, describing Mr. Abrahams as "an esthete of sorts," and "a sensitive intellectual," said the "mature" and "expert" book "marks the debut of a promising young writer."

His hypothetical Walter Savage Shelleyblake, a promising young writer who attracts the attention of copy-hungry editors and soon finds himself reviewing "tomes of travel, the secrets of Maya jungles and Kenya game wardens," is a literary Everyman.

Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff (a portrait, it has been argued, of Bernard Malamud or Henry Roth or a composite of both), an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes.

Abe's professional debut was Nichi-Doku Taiko Kyōgi (The Japan-Germany Athletic Games); it appeared in the January 1930 issue of the avant-garde literary magazine Shinchō and was instantly welcomed as a promising young writer by the Shinkō Geijutsu (Modern Art) movement.

While it is easy to sense the magazine's embarrassment, in the hierarchy of sinners at The New Republic (Ruth Shalit, a promising young writer turned plagiarist, and Stephen Glass, a promising young writer turned fabulist), Mr. Siegel would seem to rate only as a misdemeanant.