The topic just came to me but I'm at a loss to answer my own question. For now, I'd say Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." I reserve the right to change my answer after giving it more thought. :o)
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Tue, August 1, 2006 - 7:33 PMPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.
Indubitably.
Tied with
Blues4Kali- by Indi Riverflow. A personal autobiography of the semi-fictional author.
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Sun, November 26, 2006 - 11:54 AMHow about "The Professor and the Madman". Which is actually about Professor James Murray and Dr. W.C. Minor who aided in writing the oxford dictionary. It is an amazing book! Dose that count? -
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Wed, December 20, 2006 - 9:18 AMIf you have ever sat down and read OED like a novel, then it should count. I have (not the whole thing of course, but excerpts), so it does for me.
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Tue, December 5, 2006 - 10:48 AMJink High by Mercedes Lackey -
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Tue, December 26, 2006 - 9:29 AMCome to think of it, aside from that series i can't recall a novel about a novelist (leaving aside Mary-Sue wishfufilment tales) that i've read.
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Wed, December 20, 2006 - 12:14 PMColm Tóibín's 'The Master' is a superb novel about Henry James. It's extremely well-researched and can be read as a very accessible and unusually engrossing biography of the great American writer, but it also stands alone as a beautifully imagined novel. -
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Tue, December 26, 2006 - 3:18 PMNot about novelists, but...two books about the literary trade:
The Frog King by Adam Davies (about a guy in the publishing business)
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The Archivist by Martha Cooley (a man in charge of archiving all of T.S. Elliot's letters to his lover)
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Thu, January 18, 2007 - 4:40 AMI can't believe I forgot to mention VALIS by Philip K Dick (Horselover Fat)
and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Fri, January 26, 2007 - 12:16 PMHenry Miller's trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion- Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Fri, February 23, 2007 - 2:09 AMSalem's Lot, by Stephen King. A young novelist comes back to his childhood town to face his youthful terror, and finds it still terrifies him.
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Thu, March 8, 2007 - 6:26 PM"The Devil in Henry Miller "by Erica Jong. Excellent writing. She and he really had a strong commaraderie (sp?), especially since she got so much flack for "fear of flying." -
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Fri, March 9, 2007 - 10:15 AM"The Dark Half" by Stephen (half my books are about screwed up novelists' lives) King. Great stuff! -
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Wed, April 25, 2007 - 1:03 AMAh yes Yoshi, 'The Dark Half', that was a good 'un. Just started 'Lisey's Story' by the said Mr King - about a novelist's wife :)
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Tue, July 15, 2008 - 12:35 PMI agree on the Henry Miller, also The Wind Spirit, by Tournier was not bad... best ever, if it's true to life at all, has to be Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, though.
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Re: Your favorite novel about a novelist....
Tue, July 15, 2008 - 12:36 PMOOO!! And Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji
