Is there any author who wrote both literary and genre fiction?
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Henry James
I still don't understand Colin Wilson.
At a very young age he wrote an amazing, if flawed (lots of misquotes) treatise on the Outsider in literature, then he spent the rest of his life writing dreck like Space Vampires.
>>7864057
Wasn't Infinite Jest the greatest genre fiction book ever written?
Ian Banks changes his name to Ian M Banks for sci-fi
>>7864308
Was he any good?
Depends on how you look at it.
Ray Bradbury perhaps.
I consider Philip K Dick literary but I doubt anyone on this board would agree.
>>7864307
It's not genre fiction, no.
>>7864732
I really enjoyed his sci fi, but I haven't read any of his other stuff
>>7864057
Obligatory.
>>7864859
Doesn't he more blur the line between literary fiction and genre fiction? Or does he have some straight up genre fiction as well? I'm not overly familiar with big fat smug wizard's ouevre.
>>7864888
Most of his fiction is literary but works within the framework of genre. He uses genre fiction tropes, settings, and techniques to achieve literary ends. Most of his narratives, at least on a surface level, could be classified as genre fiction (BotNS, TWK, 5HoC, Latro Series...all fall under fantasy or sci-fi). Of all his works, Peace is probably the closest one to a 'realist' novel he's written. But even Peace is very much a horror novel.
Graham Greene
Philip K. Dick wrote some literary fiction
>>7864061
Mark Twain
You could include Faulkner if you count Sanctuary as genre fiction.
Shakespeare
I think it's lollable that David Mitchell's cloud atlas was in ironically boring. Seems that "literary fiction authors" don't find it so easy to write in the gutter after all.
>>7864057
Borges.
