Over dinner he found himself talking to a celebrated novelist, who seemed mainly interested in money.

(Actually, he was far better known as the less talented companion of a celebrated novelist.)

I was pretty startled when a celebrated novelist actually addressed you as Bridget on a morning news program.

"Anyway, who cares," said my friend, a celebrated middle-aged novelist.

Here she was, the year's most celebrated new novelist, giving a tour of her house to yet another visitor.

The celebrated novelist was at first almost painfully attentive to what everybody else said, and then seemed to go into a coma.

No one not otherwise informed would guess that he would go on to become one of the world's most celebrated novelists.

But wait, not just yet: she will take her turn following celebrated novelist.

Carlos Fuentes is Mexico's most celebrated novelist, though that description does no justice to his career as many other things.

He is a celebrated novelist and fiction writer.