Novelists on Novelists

For this collection Louis Kronenberger has chosen authors who are first of all novelists, because "their insight into character, their powers of observation, their almost creative gifts of memory . . . have a special, often unique, interest and value." Among the selections are:
Virginia Woolf on Daniel Defoe
Elizabeth Bowen on Jane Austen
Rebecca West on Charlotte Brontë
W. M. Thackeray on Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens on W. M. Thackeray
Honoré de Balzac on Stendhal
Marcel Proust on Leo Tolstoi and Fëdor Dostoevski
André Gide on Fëdor Dostoevski
Thomas Mann on Leo Tolstoi
Henry James on Ivan Turgenieff
E. M. Forster on Virginia Woolf
Joseph Conrad on Stephen Crane
D. H. Lawrence on Herman Melville
Aldous Huxley on D. H. Lawrence
H. G. Wells on James Joyce
W. Somerset Maugham on Arnold Bennett
Katherine Anne Porter on Willa Cather
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Ring Lardner
Glenway Wescott on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angus Wilson on Emile Zola