Authors And Their Works

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence. In this case, 'by' indicates the agent performing an action or the means through which an action is done.

• The report was written by the team of researchers.
• I heard the news by word of mouth.
• I got caught by the cops last night.
• She painted a beautiful picture by using only her emotions.

noun a person who writes novels, a novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction

• The novelist was invited to speak at the literary conference.
• I heard that the novelist is working on a new book.
• That novelist's latest novel is lit!
• The novelist painted a vivid picture with words in her latest work.