In 2006, best-selling author and military historian Caleb Carr (perhaps best known for The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, both featuring Holmes-reminiscent protagonist Laszlo Kreizler) penned The Italian Secretary, a "continuing adventure of Sherlock Holmes."

Benners, also a poet, actor, and avid traveler, maintained correspondence with many dime novel authors, aimed to compile a directory of popular writers, bought and sold stories and publishing rights, and penned some dime novels of his own.

The winner will get four days and three nights at a resort in Key West, Fla., and will visit Hemingway's former house, where, a news release says, "the famous author penned the classic novel."

The author, who has been called "a contemporary master" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has also recently penned a nonseries thriller that will be released as a Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original in February, 2003.

Tour leaders and guidebook writers frequently pepper their commentaries on Scotland with quotes from his travels, and at least five authors have penned "in the footsteps" books based on his epic trip.

Renowned author and journalist Madhu Trehan penned a nonfictions book in 2009 on the entire expose, called 'Tehelka as Metaphor'.

Some authors like Robin D. G. Kelley and John Manley have penned local histories that portray Communist Party members as effective activists, heroic in many cases because their revolutionary zeal helped them confront extremely adverse circumstances.

Nonetheless, several authors have penned their own interpretations of the markings, including Gordon Whitney and his The Eltdown Shards: A Partial Translation.

Fanning the growing rift between Merriam and conservative Republicans, right-wing author and playwright Charles Gilman Norris penned letters that became widely circulated thanks to Hearst's newspaper empire, complaining of Merriam's reforms.

The same author also penned a now well-known song about Rackard many years earlier.