Lynn stalked. She had taken up stalking for health reasons, but it was not paying off as handsomely as she had hoped. - Amanda Filipacchi

The intention appears to be to create a list of ‘American Novelists’ on Wikipedia that is made up almost entirely of men. The category lists 3,837 authors, and the first few hundred of them are mainly men.

[p]eople who go to Wikipedia to get ideas for whom to hire, or honor, or read, and look at that list of 'American Novelists' for inspiration ... might simply use that list without thinking twice about it.

I bring Laura to the edge of the clapping crowd, and I watch her sink, becoming engulfed in the sea of clapter.