Novels about writers

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

1909 novel by Jack London

1957 novel by Jack Kerouac

1918 autobiographical artist's novel and bildungsroman by James Joyce

1912 novella by Thomas Mann

1977 novel by Stephen King

1987 novel by Stephen King

1947 novel by Boris Vian

1998 novel by Stephen King

1979 novel by William Styron

1922 novella by Stefan Zweig

1989 novel by Stephen King

1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

novel, in the form of a commentary on a poem, by Vladimir Nabokov

novel by Doris Lessing

1928 novel by Radclyffe Hall

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

1978 novel by John Irving

novel by Henry Miller

novel by George Orwell

novel by John Fante

1959 novel by Shirley Jackson

book, supposedly an autobiography according the author

novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

2020 novel by Hervé Le Tellier

Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

1988 novel by Amin Maalouf

1886 novel by Octave Mirbeau

2002 novel by Paul Auster

novel by Julian Barnes

1978 novel by Iris Murdoch

novel by Vladimir Nabokov

novel by Christopher Isherwood

1933 novel by Virginia Woolf

novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

2003 novel by Camilla Läckberg

novel by Paul Auster

novel by Amélie Nothomb (1992)

novel by Hermann Broch

autobiographical work by Maya Angelou

novel by John Maxwell Coetzee

1931 novel written by Erich Kästner

novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann

1974 memoir by Maya Angelou

book by Candace Bushnell

novel by Ian McEwan

1954 novel by Fredric Brown

1895 novel by Marie Corelli

1986 novel by Maya Angelou

1979 novel by Peter Straub

Tuva-Lisa is a 1992 children's novel by Swedish writers Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson. It was followed by two sequels. The novel was translated in Finnish by Tuula Kallioniemi.

1930 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers

novel by Erica Jong

novel by James Baldwin

2006 novel by Diane Setterfield

1976 novel by Margaret Atwood

novel by John Irving

novel by Herman Melville

1992 novel by Samuel Beckett