Many of America's most important novelists deliver a new book every decade or so.

Martin Amis, an important contemporary novelist, carried into fiction this drive to make the familiar strange.

Graham Greene was an important novelist whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s.

"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure of our national literature."

Publishers realize that with so many important second-tier novelists about to enter the stores, the competition between them will be fierce indeed.

He is an important English-language novelist of the 20th century.

Atsız is also an important novelist and poet.

While he is considered one of the important novelists of Chicago's early years, his own relation to the city was often strained.

Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."

In our time, several important novelists have looked backward with intensity.