A real novelist could have told him that.

That's a playwright straining his available tools; a novelist can tell us what's on someone's mind without having him open his mouth.

He asked Chandler and the novelist told him he didn't know either.

The novelist and screenwriter tells what it is like growing up Irish in America.

The novelist tells of growing up in his father's shadow.

The novelist tells of his father's struggle with a fatal brain tumor.

That's why novelists are always telling us that what matters is the art, and they're right.

The novelist tells stories of her family's life as she tends her fatally ill daughter.

How else could novelists and attorneys tell their respective stories?

In more than 30 essays, the novelist tells of his many angling exploits.