"But what does a nineteenth-century English novelist have to do with your baseball team, sir?"
Florence Montgomery (1843-1923) was an English novelist and children's writer.
Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.
Furthermore, she is one of the best English novelists ever.
Rachel Hunter (ca. 1754 - 1813) was an English novelist of the early 19th century.
Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer.
It's astonishing what an English novelist can do with a week in the country.
Jonathan Smith (born 1942) is an English novelist, writer and teacher.
"The best English novelist writing today," that sort of thing.
Emily Clark was an English novelist of the 18th century.