Do tell of Kat Richardson.
Originally Posted by Thudlow Boink View Post
It’s not at all hard to come up with numerous examples of female writers, past and present, who write about other things. What is really difficult is coming up with male writers who do “write stories of characters whose goal is finding and keeping their love.” I can’t think of any, though I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are male romance novelists writing under female pseudonyms.
We lost this question. Are there male writers whose characters are primarily interested in 'finding and keeping their love."
Some one proposed Shakespeare.
Then someone asked what is The Great Gatsby about and of course the love Jay Gatsy had for Daisy animates the plot action of the novel as well as Nick Carroway’s romance with Jordan Baker. Fitzgerald’s novel integrates that central love quest with the monetary follies of the East.
What about Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury? Quentin’s tortured love for his sister, Caddie and in Light in August, Byron Bunch and Lena Grove? And Hemingway’s loving men in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms?
Could it be that these three male writers are not what we call romantic?
Any other male writers whose main topic is love? Let’s name a few of them and see whether the key word is romantic here.