Anne Tyler is that rare writer who has literary stature and a wide public, and she has earned that position without self-promotion.

As Kerouac's literary stature grows, old Northport friends have dusted off memories.

The difference is that these Scottish characters are little more than authorially professed types who lack much of the literary stature of their Joycean counterparts.

Its principal architect is Kenneth Branagh, who does not hide his light under bushels, not even bushels of classic literary stature.

Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.

Often when we talked, Mr. Naipaul would express curiosity about his American friend, about his book sales as well as his literary stature.

This would be an enormous undertaking by anyone, but carrying particular weight for Ellison, whose literary stature had been called into question by radical African-American writers in the 1960's.

He chases other women, drinks vats of booze, torments himself over his literary stature and happily ignores his children.

His literary stature but also his political allegiance earned him the Soviet Lenin Peace Prize, which he received shortly before his death.

Once he had won the fellowship and actually read "The Compleat Angler," he was able to make a more serious case for Walton's literary stature.