Long Writers

[sartorias]

By which I mean people who work on a project over most of their lives. Not writing the same thing over and over, but following characters or a world across decades. A writer famous in Thailand, but whose work I never was able to find in English, recently died, so his long project is over.

I recently finished a very dense, but fascinating book on

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[anna_wing]

So many crime and thriller novelists (Gladys Mitchell, Antony Price) and children's writers (Evadne Price, Richmal Crompton, Anthony Buckeridge etc etc ) were 'long writers' too.

I enjoyed 'Miss Read"'s two'Thrush Green' and "Fairacre' series of novels about English villages after World War II. A world so foreign that it might as well be science fiction.

Michelle Sagara/West and PC Hodgell are the fantasy 'long writers' whom I'm still reading. I gave up on Janny Wurts because her prose style hurt my brain. Sagara/West could do with some serious editing too, but is still just about bearable.

[sartorias]

Sadly, many of those English novelists I did not know were long writers, as only one or two of their works made it my way--if at all. I will check them out!

[anna_wing]

Crime writers tend to be long writers, because of the marketing value of having a specific detective. Of the current;y active writers, I like Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, set in the UK in the 1920s, and Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries, set in late 1920s Melbourne.

Barbara Hambly's Ashers/Ysidro series of historical vampire novels set before and during World War I are very good too. I am told her Benjamin January historical mysteries set in 19th century New Orleans are good as well, but I have never read them.