The orchestral control from the first chapter to the last is apt to make our most serious novelists both grateful and envious.

Of course there are serious novelists still to be found making a good living from their work in Japan.

The lead singer, Willy Vlautin, indeed turns out to be a serious and accomplished novelist.

But this Hernandez had illusions of being a great serious historical novelist, see.

He once conceded in an interview that he, like most serious novelists, had "one or two ideas and many variations to play on them."

As one of America's best-known serious novelists, she has perhaps simply tried too hard to prove she can be funny.

A rough but educated guess puts the number of serious working novelists here at about a hundred, with a quarter of those published.

So please spare a thought for serious, hard-working professional novelists whose works you enjoy, and who are trying to make a living from their vocation.

In the midst of his decline, Fante was unexpectedly resurrected as a serious novelist.

This can be a pitfall faced by any serious novelist with something to declare.