The poetry of Paul Verlaine had a more profound influence on Claude Debussy's music than did Debussy's closest literary or musical acquaintances.

As a child he was not surrounded by books, nor did he have any literary acquaintances.

There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including Montherlant, Kazantzakis, and Malraux urged her to publish.

Through Forster he had acquired a wide circle of literary acquaintances, many of whom he recruited to make broadcasts on the radio.

She had a considerable number of literary and social acquaintances including Augusta Leigh and Lady Cork.

Alroy Kear: Biographer of Edward Driffield, literary acquaintance of Ashenden.

He had only one other literary acquaintance at that time--or friend of any sort, for that matter.

De Quincey then made literary acquaintances.

He encountered but did not consider himself part of the group of Lewis's literary acquaintances, the Inklings.

He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev.