Cohen is no rock star turned novelist, turned poet, turned playwright.

But Robert C. Reuland, the former assistant district attorney turned novelist, also claimed victory.

Chris Ryan is the pseudonym of a former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist.

Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist.

"As far as it takes," said Joanna Elm of Woodbury, a journalist turned novelist.

He was successful, overcoming skepticism about a classically handsome movie star suddenly turning novelist.

John Grisham, the Mississippi lawyer turned best-selling novelist, is a Musgrove supporter.

The biographer turns novelist to tell the story of a nondescript man who was convicted of atomic espionage.

I had the training before I turned novelist, and I still have it.

The play has a number of autobiographical elements, being about a doctor turned novelist and journalist who have left their respective spouses to live in an artists colony.