The person West tied with was future novelist Zora Neale Hurston.

Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancée-the future novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin-he instead settled in Paris and took an office job.

The family soon moved to nearby Irvine, where he attached school and became a lifelong friend of schoolmate John Galt, a future novelist.

Zelda Fitzgerald, the future American novelist and wife of fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on July 24 of 1900.

It served as an inspiration future Polish novelists and other writers, including Adam Mickiewicz.

"There you will find the key to your dilemma," the future novelist was told, "if, Mr. Conroy, you're the student I think you are."

He had been helped in this composition by Walter Scott, a family friend, before the future novelist's years of fame.

The future novelist was born in Nagasaki in 1955 and emigrated to England with his parents at the age of 5.

Marion goes the other way and looks for serious-minded and conventional young men such as Claude, an aspiring prosecutor, and Charles, the future novelist.

The future novelist grew up in Exeter, N.H., where his stepfather taught history at the prep school.