A Levett relation, a British clerk in India, was friend to Rudyard Kipling and a minor Victorian novelist.

Morgan, a onetime drama critic for The Times of London, was a minor British novelist who served in the Royal Navy in both world wars.

Writing for The Spectator, E. A. Collins, who was herself a minor novelist, gave the novel a generally unfavorable review.

Among more minor novelists in this period Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) and Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) are worthy of comment.

Dorothy's mother, a minor novelist, was active in London literary circles for much of her life.

Fallow's father, Ambrose Fallow, was a novelist, a decidedly minor novelist, it had turned out.

A very lively biography exists of Caroline Gordon, a minor novelist and the wife of the poet Allen Tate.

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845) is considered today to be a minor Gothic novelist who wrote very much in the shadow of Ann Radcliffe.

"Although I'm a very minor novelist, I'm still a novelist confronting Tolstoy," he said.

Harold Bloom once called Updike "a minor novelist with a major style.