List of contemporary epistolary novels

An epistolary novel
Epistolary novel
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use...

tells its story through correspondence, letters, telegrams, and the like. Here are some examples of contemporary epistolary novels:

Author	Title of Work	Year	Format	Other Comments
Adiga, Aravind Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.-Early life and education:...	The White Tiger The White Tiger The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly comical view of modern day life in India through the narration of its protagonist Balram Halwai...	2008	Letters	Written as a series of letters to "His Excellency Wen Jiabao, The Premier's Office, Beijing"
Ahern, Cecilia	Where Rainbows End Where Rainbows End Where Rainbows End is Irish writer Cecelia Ahern's second novel, published in 2004. It was titled Love, Rosie or Rosie Dunne in the US. The entire novel is written in epistolary structure in the form of letters, emails, instant messages, newspaper articles, etc...	2006	E-mail, letters, and notes
Avi Edward Irving Wortis Edward Irving Wortis , better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.- Biography :...	Nothing But the Truth	1991	Dialogue transcripts, telephone conversations, letters, telegrams, diary entries and memos
Bâ, Mariama Mariama Ba Mariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from [African] traditions...	Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter So Long a Letter So long a letter is a semi-autobiographical novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. Its theme is the condition of women in Western African society.... )	1980		Considered a classical statement of the female condition in Africa Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
Bantock, Nick Nick Bantock Nick Bantock is a British artist and author based in Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Bantock is well-known for his popular series, The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, and for making collage popular...	Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence Griffin and Sabine Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is an epistolary novel by Nick Bantock, published in 1991 by Chronicle Books in the United States and Raincoast Books in Canada. It is the first novel in The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy and was a bestseller in 1991...	1991	A series of letters and postcards
Barth, John John Barth John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...	LETTERS LETTERS (novel) LETTERS is an epistolary novel by the American writer John Barth, published in 1979. It consists of a series of letters in which Barth and the characters of his other books interact....	1979	Letters from seven writers, some addressed to the "author", plus one will codicil
Bauer, Wolfgang	The Feverhead	1967	Letters of two friends that cross all the time, ending in a Mise en abyme Mise en abyme Mise en abyme is a term originally from the French and means "placed into abyss".The commonplace usage of this phrase is describing the visual experience of standing between two mirrors, seeing an infinite reproduction of one's image, but it has several other meanings in the realm of the creative...
Beaumont, Matt Matt Beaumont Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist and former copywriter.Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers, which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one advertising office...	e E (novel) e is a comic novel by Matt Beaumont first published in 2000. Written in the epistolary tradition, it consists entirely of e-mails written between the employees of an advertising agency and some of their business partners...	2000	E-mail
Berger, John John Berger John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...	From A to X: A Story in Letters	2008	Letters	Letters from A'ida to her imprisoned insurgent lover, Xavier.
Bull, Emma Emma Bull Emma Bull is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder... and Steven Brust Steven Brust Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean...	Freedom and Necessity	1997	Letters and diary entries
Cary, Kate Kate Cary Kate Cary is one of the authors of the Warriors novel series, a story about wild cats, which she writes under the pen name of Erin Hunter. The other authors who also write the Warriors novel series under the pen name Erin Hunter are Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes, and Tui T. Sutherland...	Bloodline Bloodline (2005 novel) Bloodline is a 2005 novel written by Kate Cary. It is an unofficial sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Like the original novel, Bloodline is an epistolary novel written entirely in letters, diary entries and news articles. A second novel, titled Bloodline: Reckoning was later released.-Plot...	2005	Letters, diary entries, newspaper articles, etc.	A sequel to Dracula Dracula Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor... and thus mimicks the writing format of Bram Stoker Bram Stoker Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula... 's classic novel.
Chbosky, Stephen Stephen Chbosky Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower...	The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary novel written by American novelist Stephen Chbosky. It was published on February 1, 1999 by MTV...	1999	Letters to a friend who is never mentioned.
Cleary, Beverly Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...	Dear Mr. Henshaw Dear Mr. Henshaw Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary which was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984.-Plot summary:Dear Mr. Henshaw begins with the book's main character, Leigh Botts, writing a letter, as part of a second grade classroom assignment, to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. Mr...		Letters and diary entries
Comeau, Joey Joey Comeau Joey Comeau is a Canadian writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic A Softer World and for his novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified. His work is difficult to classify by genre...	Overqualified	2009	Novel told in job application letters.
Coupland, Douglas Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...	Microserfs Microserfs Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length...	1995	Diary entries maintained on a PowerBook PowerBook The PowerBook was a line of Macintosh laptop computers that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1991 to 2006. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and redesigns, often being the first to incorporate features that would later become...
	The Gum Thief The Gum Thief The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel. It was published on , by Random House Canada in Canada and Bloomsbury Publishing in the United States....	2007	Journal entries, letters, e-mails, writing exercises and one work memo
Crumey, Andrew Andrew Crumey Andrew Crumey is a novelist and former literary editor of the Scotland on Sunday newspaper. He was born in Kirkintilloch, north of Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of St Andrews and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College, London. In...	Mr Mee	2001
Danielewski, Mark Z. Mark Z. Danielewski Mark Z. Danielewski, born March 5, 1966 in New York City, New York, is an American author, best known for his debut novel House of Leaves...	House of Leaves House of Leaves House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books. The novel quickly became a bestseller following its March 7, 2000 release. It was followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters...	2000	Fictional manuscript, letters, editorial footnotes, appendices, fictional interviews
Dunn, Mark Mark Dunn Mark Dunn is an American author and playwright. He studied film at Memphis State University followed by post-graduate work in screenwriting at the University of Texas moving to New York in 1987 where he worked in the New York Public Library whilst writing plays in his free time.Among the...	Ella Minnow Pea Ella Minnow Pea Ella Minnow Pea is a novel by Mark Dunn, copyrighted in 2001. The full title of the hardcover version is Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogramatic epistolary fable, while the paperback version is titled Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters....	2001
	Ibid: A Life Ibid: A Life Ibid: A Life is the third novel by Mark Dunn, published in 2004. Its form is highly reminiscent of Nabokov's Pale Fire in that it consists almost entirely of a set of endnotes for a larger biographical work.-Plot introduction:...	2004
Echenique, Alfredo Bryce	Tarzan's Tonsillitis	2001	First person narrative with letters
Frayn, Michael Michael Frayn Michael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy...	The Trick of It	1989
Glattauer, Daniel	Gut gegen Nordwind (German)	2006	Email	E-mail correspondence between a man and a woman who fall in love with each other although they never meet and do not know what the other looks like
Hanff, Helene Helene Hanff Helene Hanff was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, , and film of the same name.- Career :...	84 Charing Cross Road 84 Charing Cross Road 84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England.Hanff, in search of...	1970	Letters	Book, later made into a stage play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between Hanff and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England.
Imlay, Gilbert Gilbert Imlay Gilbert Imlay was an American businessman, author, and diplomat. Imlay was known in his day as a shrewd but unscrupulous businessman involved in land speculation in Kentucky. He later served in the U.S...	The Emigrants'	1793	Letters	Letters between Gilbert Imlay and various contemporaries, contrasting the utopia of America with the degrading political and economic situation of Europe, with a love story and several other side plots.
Johnson, Kij Kij Johnson Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing editor for Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast/TSR, collections editor for Dark Horse Comics, and content manager working on the Microsoft Reader...	The Fox Woman The Fox Woman The Fox Woman, published in 1999 by Tor Books, is Kij Johnson's first novel set in Heian-era Japan, based in part on the Royall Tyler translation of the stories of the kitsune, or fox spirits. The lead characters are an ambitious human named Kaya no Yoshifuji and a fox woman named Kitsune...		Extracts from diaries
Kaufman, Bel Bel Kaufman Bella "Bel" Kaufman is an American teacher and author, best known for writing the 1965 bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase.-Early life:...	Up the Down Staircase Up the Down Staircase Up the Down Staircase is a humorous novel written by Bel Kaufman, and published in 1965.-Plot summary:The plot revolves around Sylvia Barrett, an idealistic English teacher at an inner-city high school who hopes to nurture her students' interest in classic literature and writing...	1965	memos, notes dropped in the trash can, student papers, lesson plans, notes from students, and letters to a friend from college,	A classic mid-60's portrayal of an urban high school that is a microcosm of the New York City school system that was also made into a film
Kellaway, Lucy Lucy Kellaway Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at the Financial Times . Her column is syndicated in The Irish Times. In addition she has worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT...	Who Moved My Blackberry?	2005	Email	Novelisation of the author's Financial Times column featuring Martin Lukes Martin Lukes Martin Lukes is a fictional character in a satirical column in the Financial Times. Lukes was also the subject of the spinoff novel Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry "cowritten with Lucy Kellaway"... . Most emails are from Lukes himself, so the reader deduces the content of mails he is replying to.
Keyes, Daniel Daniel Keyes Daniel Keyes is an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.-Early life and career:Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New...	Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960...	1966	Journal	An expanded version of Keyes' 1959 short story of the same name. This book is the journal of mentally-retarded janitor Charlie Gordon, who temporarily becomes a super-genius during a medical experiment. Through changes in grammar and style, Charlie's mental rise and fall are presented.
Kimball, Michael Michael Kimball - Biography & Career :Michael Kimball was born February 1, 1967 in Lansing, Michigan and is the author of The Way the Family Got Away , How Much of Us There Was ; Us , and Dear Everybody . He has also published the book Words under the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine...	Dear Everybody	2008	Letters, diary entries, newspaper articles and Other Fragments.	The unsent letters of Jonathon Bender, detailing his thoughts from 1966-1999.
King, Stephen Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...	Carrie Carrie (novel) Carrie is American author Stephen King's first published novel, released in 1974. It revolves around the eponymous Carrie, a shy high-school girl, who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tease her...	1976	Traditional narrative fused with journal articles, interviews, AP ticker reports, and court transcripts.
	The Plant The Plant The Plant is an unfinished serial novel published in 2000 as an e-book by American author Stephen King.The novel is about the editor in a paperback publishing house, who gets a manuscript from what seems like a crackpot. The manuscript is about magic, but it also contains photographs that seem very...	2000	The story is told through various letters, memos and etceteras.	Unfinished.
Kluger, Steve Steve Kluger Steve Kluger is an American author and playwright.Kluger's writing is noted for its baseball, gay, and historical themes....	Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer Last Days of Summer is 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings....	1998	Letters, postcards, progress reports, and newspaper clippings.	A series of letters during the 1940s between a twelve year old and a rookie baseball player.
	Almost Like Being in Love Almost Like Being in Love (book) Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger. Like his previous novel Last Days of Summer, Almost Like Being in Love is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus,...	2004	The story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists, with only minor reliance on narrative.
Kostova, Elizabeth Elizabeth Kostova Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.-Early life:Elizabeth Z. Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville...	The Historian The Historian The Historian interweaves the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia known as "Vlad the Impaler", and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula together with the story of Paul, a professor; his 16-year-old daughter; and their quest for Vlad's tomb...	2005	Letters	Letters, excerpts from books and academic literature, and the narrator's reconstructions of stories told to her by her father.
Lardner, Ring Ring Lardner Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.-Personal life:...	You Know Me Al	1916	Letters	Lardner's first successful book. Written by "Jack Keefe," a bush league baseball player, to a friend back home.
Lewis, C. S. C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...	The Screwtape Letters The Screwtape Letters The Screwtape Letters is a satirical Christian apologetics novel written in epistolary style by C. S. Lewis, first published in book form in February 1942...	1942	Letters	Letters from a senior demon to his nephew, a junior tempter, on how to tempt humans into sin, and how to contain the damage when things go wrong (i.e., the target human resists temptation or turns to God).
Llewellyn, David David Llewellyn David Llewellyn may refer to:David Llewellyn , member of the Parliament of TasmaniaDavid Llewellyn , British Member of Parliament for Cardiff North 1950–1959...	Eleven (novel)	2006	Email	Emails sent on a single day, between the hours of 9am and 5pm.
Lucas, Tim Tim Lucas Tim Lucas is a film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog.-Biography and early career:...	The Book of Renfield The Book of Renfield The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula is a 2005 novel written by Tim Lucas. It is an unofficial prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Like the original novel, Renfield is an epistolary novel written in series of written documents. It focuses mainly on Renfield, mostly remembered as a minor...	2005	Diary entries, dialogue transcriptions	A book about the character of Renfield Renfield R. M. Renfield is a fictional character in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.-In the novel:A description of Renfield from the novel:R. M. Renfield, aetat 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable,... from Dracula Dracula Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor... and thus mimics the format of the novel. Excerpts from Stoker's novel are integrated into the plot.
Martel, Yann Yann Martel Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.-Early life:Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain where his father was posted as a diplomat for the Canadian government. He was raised in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and Canada...	"Manners of Dying" (short story)		Letter	The book is presented as a set of different variants of an official letter that a warden writes to a mother of an executed prisoner named Kevin Barlow. In each letter both the exact details of Kevin's execution and the warden's reaction vary slightly.
Monteilhet, Hubert	Les Mantes Religieuses (The Praying Mantises)	1960		Made into a BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... television film in 1982
Monteilhet, Hubert	Le Retour des Cendres Return from the Ashes Return from the Ashes is a 1965 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The film stars Ingrid Thulin, Herbert Lom, Maximillian Schell, and Samantha Eggar.-Plot:... (Return From the Ashes Return from the Ashes Return from the Ashes is a 1965 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The film stars Ingrid Thulin, Herbert Lom, Maximillian Schell, and Samantha Eggar.-Plot:... )	1962		Made into a film starring Maximilian Schell Maximilian Schell Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961... in 1965
Rodger Morrison Rodger Morrison Rodger Morrison, Jr. is an American author, researcher, professor, and businessman.A researcher in several fields, including human-to-computer interaction and trust in technology-mediated communication environments, Morrison has published and presented numerous articles in journals and at academic...	The My Dearest Letters (short story)	2003	Historical Letters	The book is presented as a set of love letters from a man, William, to a girl he meets on the street, Anne. Set in Antebellum New England, the book follows their developing love for each other in a very formal society. This work is monological with embedded poetry with both romantic and religious overtones. Several subplots.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...	Ada Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects: "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel...
Nieves, Luis López Luis López Nieves Luis López Nieves is one of the most influential and best-selling Puerto Rican authors ever. He has won the National Literature Prize on two occasions: first, in 2000, with his book of historical short stories ; second, in 2005, with his novel . He published two other books including Seva, and ...	Voltaire's Heart (Spanish)	2005	E-mail
Oz, Amos Amos Oz Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....	Black Box Black Box (book) Black Box is a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz. It was first published in Israel in 1986 by Am Oved, and in the US by Harcourt in 1988.The book's plot deals with the tensions resulting from a destroyed marriage...	1986
Parks, Tim Tim Parks Tim Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.-Life:Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the son of a clergyman. He grew up in Finchley , London and was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard. He has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981...	Home Thoughts	1999
Payne, C.D. C.D. Payne C. D. Payne is an American writer of absurdist fiction who is best known for his series of novels about fictional teenager Nick Twisp...	Youth in Revolt Youth in Revolt Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp is a 1993 epistolary novel by C. D. Payne. The story is told in a picaresque fashion and makes heavy use of black humor and camp...		Journal entries
Perlman, Fredy Fredy Perlman Fredy Perlman was an author, publisher and activist. His most popular work, the book Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, details the rise of state domination with a retelling of history through the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan. The book remains a major source of inspiration for...	Letters of Insurgents Letters of Insurgents Letters of Insurgents is a 1976 novel by Fredy Perlman dealing with anarchist themes and relationships.-Plot introduction:...	1976	Letters	Deals with anarchist themes and relationships.
Priest, Christopher	The Prestige The Prestige The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest. The novel is epistolary in structure: that is, it purports to be a collection of real diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated...	1995	Letters and diary entries
Randall, Bob Bob Randall Bob Randall is a member of the Stolen Generations and former Indigenous Person of the Year. He is credited with bringing to light the issue of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, in 1970...	The Fan	1977	Letters and telegrams
Rice, Luane and Joseph Monninger Joseph Monninger Joseph Monninger is the author of 17 books and a professor at Plymouth State University.-Bibliography:1981: The Night Caller 1982: The Family Man...	The Letters	2008	Letters
Rushton, Rosie Rosie Rushton Rosie Rushton is a British writer.- Writing career :Rosie Rushton began her career as a feature writer for a local paper. Staying Cool, Surviving School was her first book, published by Piccadilly Press in 1993... and Nina Schindler	P.S. He's Mine!	2001	E-mail
Saint, H. F.	Memoirs of an Invisible Man Memoirs of an Invisible Man Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1992 film directed by John Carpenter and released by Warner Bros., with many scenes taking place in and around San Francisco. The film is loosely based on a 1987 novel of the same name by H.F. Saint...	1987	Narrative manuscript	This entire novel is put forth as a letter or manuscript, the first-person narrative of the author/protagonist, written down and left for someone to find, to learn of what has befallen him.
Salinger, J.D.	Short stories about the Glass family Glass family The Glass family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in a number of J. D. Salinger's short stories. All but one of the Glass family stories were first published in The New Yorker; several of them have been collected and published in the compilations Nine Stories, Raise High...		Letters
Sayers, Dorothy L. Dorothy L. Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages... and Robert Eustace Robert Eustace Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton , an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author L. T....	The Documents in the Case The Documents in the Case The Documents in the Case is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. It is the only one of Sayers' twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character.-Plot:...	1930	Letters from a variety of characters and a few police statements	Some of the letters contradict each other, requiring the reader to decide which characters are more trustworthy.
Shriver, Lionel Lionel Shriver -Early life and education:Lionel Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a deeply religious family . At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given, and as a tomboy felt that a...	We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the perspective of the killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed...	2003	Letters	This book consists of letters from Eva, the mother of the boy in the title, to her husband.
Shteyngart, Gary	Super Sad True Love Story Super Sad True Love Story Super Sad True Love Story is the third novel by American writer Gary Shteyngart. The novel takes place in a near-future dystopian New York where life is dominated by media and retail.-Plot Summary:...	2010	Diary entries and Digital Communication Records	The book takes alternating narratives through protagonist Lenny Abramov's diary and his love interest's "GlobalTeens" account, a technology akin to contemporary email and instant messaging systems.
Snicket, Lemony Lemony Snicket Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler . Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional...	The Beatrice Letters The Beatrice Letters The Beatrice Letters is a book by Lemony Snicket. It is tangential to the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, and was published shortly before the thirteenth and final installment...	2006	Letters and Notes	The book is obviously meant to be humorous while at the same time explaining some of the mysteries surrounding the Baudelaires. The letters are between Lemony and Beatrice. Several of the letters (mostly from Lemony Snicket) tend to be very long and rambling; one goes on about his love for Beatrice for four pages. As in The Unauthorized Autobiography pictures and letters allow readers to guess about the author's life.
Smith, Lee Lee Smith (author) Lee Smith is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her home roots in the Southeastern United States in her works of literature. She has received many writing awards, such as the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the North...	Fair and Tender Ladies Fair and Tender Ladies Fair and Tender Ladies is a novel written by Lee Smith. It was published in 1988 and won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year....		Letters
[David Ives]	Voss Voss is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....	2009
Steadman, Carl Carl Steadman Carl Steadman is co-founder of suck.com, creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature and current operator of plastic.com. He was also production director for HotWired....	"Two Solitudes"	1995	E-mail
Stevermer, Caroline Caroline Stevermer Caroline Stevermer is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for two series of historical fantasy novels.With Patricia C... and Patricia Wrede Patricia Wrede Patricia Collins Wrede is an American fantasy writer from Chicago, Illinois.The eldest of five children, she graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in Biology, married James Wrede in 1976 , and obtained an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977.She finished her first book in 1978,...	Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot	1988	Letters	"Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country" (Set in a Regency England where magic works)
	The Grand Tour	2004	Diary extracts and testimony	"Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality" (Immediate sequel to the work above)
	The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After	2006	Letters	"Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm" (Takes place ten years after the previous two books)
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō	Kagi The Key (Tanizaki novel) The Key , is a novel written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in 1956. The story was translated into English by Howard Hibbett and published by Vintage International Books.-Synopsis:...	1956	Diary entries	Made into the film Odd Obsession Odd Obsession is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It was based on the novel The Key, by Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki.-Plot:... (1960) starring Machiko Kyō Machiko Kyo is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu.Machiko trained to be a dancer before... and Tatsuya Nakadai Tatsuya Nakadai is a Japanese leading film actor.He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s... and La Chiave in 1983 by Tinto Brass Tinto Brass Giovanni Brass , better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker. He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Così fan tutte , Paprika, Monella and Trasgredire... , starring Frank Finlay Frank Finlay Francis Finlay, CBE is an English stage, film and television actor.-Personal life:Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay, a butcher. A devout Catholic, he belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild. He was educated at St... and Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s. She was 15 years old when she starred in Divorce, Italian Style, as Marcello Mastroianni's cousin, Angela.She was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. She had a long relationship with... .
Townsend, Sue Sue Townsend -Adrian Mole series:* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.* The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole * The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole...	Adrian Mole Adrian Mole Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence... series		Diary entries
Walker, Alice Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender...	The Color Purple The Color Purple The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction...	1983	Letters and diary entries
Webster, Jean Jean Webster Jean Webster was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy...	Daddy-Long-Legs Daddy-Long-Legs (novel) Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen....	1912	Letters following introductory narrative	An anonymous benefactor sponsors the college education of an orphan girl, Jerusha (Judy) Abbott, with the provision she write him monthly.
	Dear Enemy Dear Enemy (novel) Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was among the top ten best sellers in the US in 1916. The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs...	1915	Letters	Sallie McBride, the college room-mate of Judy Abbott of "Daddy-Long-Legs", is appointed Superintendent of the John Grier Home, where Judy was brought up. She writes about her doings to Judy, Judy's husband (now the president of the orphanage), and the Scotsman Robin (Sandy) McRae (the "Dear Enemy" of the title) who is the orphanage's doctor.

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