Although Hardyment never makes such a claim, Malory may actually have been the earliest English novelist.

Lucian was also one of the earliest novelists in Western civilization.

Charles Brockden Brown, an early American novelist, may have been directly affected by Voltaire, whose work he knew well.

His subject was the early American novelist Charles Brockden Brown.

One of the earliest novelists was Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941).

Meanwhile an admiring gang of early Victorian novelists stood ready to take their cue.

The early European novelists were unaware of most of these works; instead they were influenced by novellas and verse epics.

The early modern novelist had remained a historian as much as the author of the most personal French contemporary memoir.