Unlike their Jewish literary ancestors, Ms. Mukherjee's people are no more tormented by conscience than butterflies.

Sedaine may be regarded as the literary ancestor of Scribe and Dumas.

But don't remind Lisbeth of her sunnier literary ancestor.

He is an inveterate spinner of what Tom Sawyer, one of his literary ancestors, liked to call stretchers.

Throughout that decade, however, the author and his most popular book were the subject of a "...re-examination, if only as a neglected literary ancestor of the moderns."

My literary ancestors and contemporaries have written many beautiful lines on the kinds of moods that were appearing in each part of the story.

The primary literary ancestor of The Historian, however, is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

The write-your-own-ending has distinguished literary ancestors.

Both are forerunners of the crime novel - my literary ancestors, I suppose!

Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.