Ms. Elhauge, an aspiring writer who had just completed a year traveling through Europe with her husband, lost everything, including the only manuscripts of her first novel.

Having read the review, Paul looks in despair at the manuscript of his own unfinished novel, which could not differ more, either in tone or content, from Y's.

U2 singer, Bono, came up with the idea for the song after reading a manuscript of Rushdie's novel.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

Whoever held the lethal grudge against Oliver has added insult to injury by burning the annotated manuscript of Oliver's latest novel.

After Tony Hillerman showed the manuscript of his first novel to his agent at the time, the agent advised him to stick to nonfiction.

On the table in the study was the more-than-half-finished manuscript of her third novel, which is about music in immigrants' lives.

It was on the strength of a complete manuscript of his unpublished first novel, "Politics," not an excerpt.

By then, she had spent most of the money anyway, and her main hope for economic salvation was the manuscript of her novel.

Beside the typewriter was the manuscript of his new novel, The Golden Dog.