Collocations for novelist - noun

great, leading (esp. BrE)
one of the country's greatest contemporary novelists

acclaimed, famous
best-selling, popular
his ambition to become a best-selling novelist

aspiring
prolific (esp. BrE)
contemporary
19th-century, Victorian
crime, graphic, historical, mystery, romance, romantic

write sth
A prolific novelist, she wrote more than forty books.