No less than John Updike (in The New Yorker 's fiction issue) proclaims the screenwriter-architect's first novel a Tiger Woodsian debut.
It was the screenwriter-architects first ever novel. 
mnli hypothesis: It was the screenwriter-architects first ever novel.  premise: No less than John Updike (in The New Yorker 's fiction issue) proclaims the screenwriter-architect's first novel a Tiger Woodsian debut.