PERSON@1 , CH , CBE -LRB- December NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 March NUMBER@3 , NUMBER@4 -RRB- was an MISC@1 novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the MISC@2 , published between NUMBER@5 and NUMBER@6 .

He is best known for his A Dance to the MISC@2 series of books published between NUMBER@5 and NUMBER@6 .
