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AFTER YEARS OF WRITING SCIENCE FICTION, HE FOUND HIS NICHE WITH HISTORICAL NOVELS, SUCH AS "NORTH AND SOUTH" | JOHN JAKES |
IN JAMES MICHENER'S "JOURNEY", IT'S 1897 AND FIVE MEN ARE IN A RUSH TO FIND GOLD HERE | KLONDIKE |
HIS "BARNABY RUDGE", A NOVEL OF THE 1780 ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS, DESCRIBES THE RIOTERS' ACTIONS, AND LATER THEIR HANGING, IN BLOOMSBURY SQUARE | DICKENS |
THIS DUMAS HERO IS INCARCERATED FOR ALLEGEDLY CARRYING LETTERS FROM ELBA TO PARIS | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO |
BROTHER WILLIAM, THE HERO OF THIS UMBERTO ECO NOVEL, IS A BUDDY OF WILLIAM OF OCCAM | THE NAME OF THE ROSE |
HER 1956 NOVEL "IMPERIAL WOMAN", IS ABOUT CHINA'S DOWAGER EMPRESS TZ'U-HSI | PEARL BUCK |
WITH "WAVERLY" AND "IVANHOE", SIR WALTER SCOTT ESTABLISHED THIS GENRE OF FICTION SET IN THE PAST | HISTORICAL FICTION |
AMONG HIS HISTORICAL NOVELS ARE "BURR" AND "1876" | GORE VIDAL |
DICKENS' "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" IS SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THIS DECADE-LONG UPHEAVAL | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
E.L. DOCTOROW'S "THE MARCH" TELLS THE STORY OF THOSE ON THIS GENERAL'S MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA | SHERMAN |
LARRY MCMURTRY'S "TELEGRAPH DAYS" HAS HEROINE NELLIE COURTRIGHT WITNESSING THE 1881 GUNFIGHT AT THIS PLACE | O.K. CORRAL |
"GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING" IS THE STORY OF GRIET, WHO WORKS IN THE DELFT HOUSEHOLD OF THIS 17TH-C. PAINTER | VERMEER |
IRELAND'S TEMPESTUOUS HISTORY HAS INSPIRED MANY HISTORICAL NOVELS, LIKE THIS AUTHOR'S 1976 BOOK, "TRINITY" | LEON URIS |
"THE PIONEERS" AND "THE PRAIRIE" ARE 2 OF THE 5 HISTORICAL NOVELS IN THIS SERIES | THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES |
MARY HIGGINS CLARK'S "MOUNT VERNON LOVE STORY" IS "A NOVEL OF" THIS COUPLE | GEORGE & MARTHA WASHINGTON |
SET IN BIBLICAL TIMES, THIS CLASSIC BY LEW WALLACE IS SUBTITLED, "A TALE OF THE CHRIST" | BEN-HUR |
WILLA CATHER'S "O PIONEERS!" DEALS WITH A GROUP OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THIS COUNTRY WHO SETTLE IN NEBRASKA | SWEDEN |
IRVING STONE'S "THE ORIGIN" IS "A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF" THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THIS SCIENTIST | DARWIN |
JEAN AUEL FIRST TOOK US BACK TO PREHISTORIC TIMES AND THE DAWN OF MANKIND IN THIS 1980 NOVEL | CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR |
BEN AMES WILLIAMS' NOVEL "HOUSE DIVIDED" DEPICTS A VIRGINIA FAMILY DURING THIS WAR | THE CIVIL WAR |
WILLIAM SAFIRE'S "SCANDALMONGER" EXPOSES JAMES CALLENDER, WHO GOSSIPED ABOUT THIS PRESIDENT AND SALLY HEMINGS | THOMAS JEFFERSON |
"THE CONQUEROR" BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON FICTIONALIZES THE LIFE OF THIS EARLY 19TH-C. DUELING VICTIM | ALEXANDER HAMILTON |
SOME CONSIDER THIS 1932 NOVEL, THE FIRST IN A TRILOGY, A BLIGHT ON CAPTAIN BLIGH'S CHARACTER | MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY |
A REAL EDINBURGH PRISON NICKNAMED "THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN" IS FEATURED IN HIS 1818 NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
ANYA SETON'S NOVEL "KATHERINE" IS BASED ON JOHN OF GAUNT'S AFFAIR WITH THIS "CANTERBURY TALES" AUTHOR'S SISTER-IN-LAW | GEOFFREY CHAUCER |
READING THIS 1961 NOVEL BY IRVING STONE MIGHT INSPIRE YOU TO PAINT YOUR CEILING | THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY |
WILD BILL HICKOK TURNS UP IN "BOONE'S LICK", A 2000 NOVEL BY THIS "LONESOME DOVE" AUTHOR | LARRY MCMURTRY |
"GATES OF FIRE" IS AN EPIC NOVEL ABOUT THIS BATTLE LOST BY THE SPARTANS IN 480 B.C. | THERMOPYLAE |
SET DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR, THIS DEBUT NOVEL BY CHARLES FRAZIER IS OFTEN COMPARED TO THE "ODYSSEY" | COLD MOUNTAIN |
THE 1803 BOOK "THADDEUS OF ..." THIS POLISH CITY IS CALLED ONE OF THE FIRST HISTORICAL NOVELS | WARSAW |
ADINA DE ZAVALA, WHO BARRICADED HERSELF INSIDE THIS SAN ANTONIO LANDMARK TO SAVE IT IN 1908, INSPIRED A 1999 NOVEL | THE ALAMO |
"HENRY ST. JOHN, GENTLEMAN" IS SET IN THIS VIRGINIA VALLEY, AT THE ONSET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | SHENANDOAH VALLEY |
THE 3RD BOOK IN JAMES REASONER'S CIVIL WAR SAGA IS NAMED FOR THIS MARYLAND BATTLE THE REBELS CALLED SHARPSBURG | ANTIETAM |
JANE PORTER'S 1810 NOVEL "THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS" TELLS THE STORY OF THIS MAN, THE HERO OF "BRAVEHEART" | WILLIAM WALLACE |
THE FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN BY A ZULU IN THE ZULU LANGUAGE WAS JOHN L. DUBE'S NOVEL ABOUT THIS GREAT ZULU CHIEF | SHAKA |
THE 1875 NOVEL "HONEST JOHN VANE" SATIRIZES THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS GENERAL-TURNED-PRESIDENT | GRANT |
"DRED: A TALE OF THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP" WAS HER SECOND ANTI-SLAVERY NOVEL | HARRIET BEECHER STOWE |
KING LOUIS XI OF FRANCE IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN THIS SCOTSMAN'S 1823 NOVEL "QUENTIN DURWARD" | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
THE HERO OF THIS "VANITY FAIR" AUTHOR'S "HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND" FIGHTS IN THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | THACKERAY |
HE WROTE "THE FAIR GOD", A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO, 7 YEARS BEFORE "BEN-HUR" | LEW WALLACE |
"MY THEODOSIA" IS THE STORY OF THIS MAN'S DAUGHTER, THEODOSIA BURR ALSTON, BELIEVED TO BE LOST AT SEA IN 1813 | AARON BURR |
THIS 1978 JAMES MICHENER NOVEL DETAILS THE HISTORY OF MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE | CHESAPEAKE |
CHIEF CONANCHET IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN "THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH", AN 1829 NOVEL BY THIS AMERICAN AUTHOR | JAMES FENIMORE COOPER |
HIGHLAND RAIDERS KNOWN AS THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST WREAK HAVOC IN "THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE" BY THIS 19TH-C AUTHOR | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
"WITCHING TIMES" IS JOHN DE FOREST'S NOVEL ABOUT THIS CITY'S WITCHCRAFT TRIALS | SALEM, MASS |
A 19TH-C. NOVEL BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE ENHANCED THE LEGEND OF THIS PLAYFUL DAUGHTER OF POWHATAN | POCAHONTAS |
"KENILWORTH" TELLS THE TALE OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, WHO SOME SAY KILLED HIS WIFE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MARRY THIS QUEEN | ELIZABETH I |
"THE ORPHAN ANGEL" DEPICTS WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO THIS ROMANTIC POET IF HE'D BEEN RESCUED FROM DROWNING | SHELLEY |
"THE PARTISAN" IS ONE OF SEVERAL W.G. SIMMS NOVELS THAT FEATURE THIS "SWAMP FOX" OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | FRANCIS MARION |
IN A SERIES OF NOVELS, RICHARD SHARPE FIGHTS THE PENINSULAR WAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF THIS HISTORICAL DUKE | DUKE OF WELLINGTON |
HIS HISTORICAL NOVELS INCLUDE "THE LAST OF THE BARONS" AND "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" | EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON |
HE STOOD 5'3" AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF MOVIES THAT CAME OUT IN 2005 & 2006 | TRUMAN CAPOTE |
HE REVIEWED FILMS & TV FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC BEFORE HIS FIRST BOOK, "GOODBYE, COLUMBUS", WAS PUBLISHED IN 1959 | PHILIP ROTH |
HIS LAST PLAY WAS 2004'S "FINISHING THE PICTURE", A STORY OF THE MAKING OF "THE MISFITS" | ARTHUR MILLER |
IN 1890 HE GAVE UP PRACTICING MEDICINE TO WRITE FULL-TIME; IN 1902, HE WAS KNIGHTED | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
HE WON A PULITZER FOR "A THOUSAND DAYS", HIS BOOK ON THE JFK PRESIDENCY | ARTHUR SCHLESINGER |
THE NAME OF THIS FRENCH POET, A SUBJECT IN VERLAINE'S "THE DAMNED POETS", SOUNDS LIKE A STALLONE ROLE | RIMBAUD |
THIS "ARTHUR" WON A HUGO AWARD FOR A 1973 NOVEL | ARTHUR C. CLARKE |
REASON FOR THE 2006 RECALL OF THE NOVEL, "HOW OPAL MEHTA GOT KISSED, GOT WILD, AND GOT A LIFE" | PLAGIARISM |
ARTAX WAS ATREYU'S MOUNT IN THIS "INTERMINABLE" KID'S TALE | THE NEVERENDING STORY |
THIS BEHRENDT & TUCCILLO BOOK, NOW A MOVIE, IS SUBTITLED "THE NO EXCUSES TRUTH TO UNDERSTANDING GUYS" | HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU |
THIS "FIGHT CLUB" AUTHOR'S BOOK "RANT" IS DESCRIBED AS THE ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF A SERIAL KILLER | CHUCK PALAHNIUK |
CREATOR OF SAM SPADE | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
CREATOR OF KINSEY MILLHONE | SUE GRAFTON |
CREATOR OF C. AUGUSTE DUPIN | EDGAR ALLAN POE |
CREATOR OF ALEX CROSS | JAMES PATTERSON |
CREATOR OF EASY RAWLINS | WALTER MOSLEY |
LIKE WILLIAM INGE, GAO XINGJIAN WROTE A PLAY WITH THIS TRANSPORT VENUE AS ITS TITLE, BUT HIS HELPED HIM WIN A NOBEL PRIZE | A BUS STOP |
THE ASIAN TRAVELS OF 1944 NOBEL WINNER JOHANNES JENSEN GOT HIM DUBBED DENMARK'S THIS BRITISH WRITER WHO WON IN 1907 | KIPLING |
"A ROSE, IS A ROSE, IS A ROSE" | GERTRUDE STEIN |
A 1981 BOOK BY HER WAS PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH AS "ADIEUX: A FAREWELL TO SARTRE" | SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR |
SHE GAINED FAME AS A PLAYWRIGHT & LATER WROTE MEMOIRS LIKE "PENTIMENTO" | LILLIAN HELLMAN |
THIS 4-SYLLABLE WORD CAN REFER TO ANY ONE OF THE 4 AUTHORS OF THE GOSPELS OR TO A TYPE OF MINISTER | EVANGELIST |
THIS AUTHOR SET "THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE" IN WESSEX | THOMAS HARDY |
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE DIED WHILE TRAVELING WITH THIS PRESIDENT, HIS CLOSE FRIEND | FRANKLIN PIERCE |
SHE CO-AUTHORED A BOOK ABOUT "THE DECORATION OF HOUSES" BEFORE WRITING "THE HOUSE OF MIRTH" | EDITH WHARTON |
SHE DEDICATED BOTH "ATLAS SHRUGGED" AND "THE FOUNTAINHEAD" TO FRANK O'CONNOR | AYN RAND |
SHE PENNED "ETHAN FROME" IN 1911 | EDITH WHARTON |
SHE WROTE ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE IN "THE MILL ON THE FLOSS" | GEORGE ELIOT |
THE FIRST LINE OF HIS 1951 NOVEL MENTIONS A "LOUSY CHILDHOOD...AND ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP" | J.D. SALINGER |
SHE MADE A CAMEO APPEARANCE IN THE MOVIE "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES" BASED ON HER NOVEL | FANNIE FLAGG |
IN HIS 8-VOL. "KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES", HE TOOK READERS THROUGH 7 GENERATIONS OF FAMILY HISTORY | JOHN JAKES |
HE WROTE "OUR MAN IN HAVANA" AND "THE THIRD MAN" AS WELL AS THE SCREENPLAYS FOR THEM | GRAHAM GREENE |
HIS "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" WAS THE TOP-SELLING NOVEL OF 1951 | JAMES JONES |
THE AUTHOR OF THE DIRK PITT NOVELS IS THE FOUNDER OF NUMA, THE NATIONAL UNDERWATER & MARINE AGENCY | CLIVE CUSSLER |
HIS PLAY "UNDER MILK WOOD", ABOUT THE INHABITANTS OF A WELSH SEASIDE TOWN, WAS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY | DYLAN THOMAS |
IN A SONNET, WORDSWORTH TOLD THIS "PARADISE LOST" POET "THOU SHOULD'ST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR" | MILTON |
IN 1922 VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE OF HIS "ULYSSES", "NEVER HAVE I READ SUCH TOSH" | JOYCE |
HERMAN MELVILLE WROTE THAT THIS "IS A SWEET FLOWER; MAY IT FLOURISH IN EVERY HEDGE" | THE HAWTHORNE |
E.M. FORSTER SAID "MOST OF HUMAN LIFE HAS TO DISAPPEAR" FROM THE WORK OF THIS "PORTRAIT OF A LADY" AUTHOR | HENRY JAMES |
THIS AUTHOR WAS ALSO A FRIEND OF SHAKESPEARE BUT CALLED HIS PAL DONNE "THE FIRST POET IN THE WORLD IN SOME THINGS" | BEN JONSON |
HE MADE RECORDINGS READING FROM SOME OF HIS OWN WORKS, INCLUDING "POEMS & SONGS OF MIDDLE-EARTH" | TOLKIEN |
HIS SHORT STORY "RAIN" WAS INSPIRED BY A MISSIONARY AND A PROSTITUTE WHO WERE PASSENGERS ABOARD HIS SHIP ON A TRIP TO SAMOA | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
IN HER "TWILIGHT" SERIES, ISABELLA SWAN FALLS FOR A ROMANTIC VAMPIRE | STEPHANIE MEYER |
"THE LOBSTER CHRONICLES" IS LINDA GREENLAW'S BOOK ABOUT LIFE ON A SMALL ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF THIS STATE | MAINE |
"FOREVER IN ..." THIS COLOR IS ANN BRASHARES' THIRD SEQUEL TO "THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS" | BLUE |
SEBASIAN FAULKS PENNED THE NEW JAMES BOND NOVEL "DEVIL MAY CARE", FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS AUTHOR'S BIRTH | IAN FLEMING |
THE DEMOLITION OF FINBAR'S HOTEL IN THIS CAPITAL INSPIRED 7 IRISH AUTHORS TO WRITE A BOOK OF TALES SET IN IT | DUBLIN |
WASHINGTON IRVING'S GRACIOUS HOME SUNNYSIDE OVERLOOKS THIS RIVER | HUDSON |
WHEN THE PEOPLE OF NOHANT, FRANCE REFER TO "THE CHATEAU", THEY MEAN THE HOME OF THIS 19TH-C. WOMAN | GEORGE SAND |
YOU CAN VISIT THE HOME OF THIS POET AND BUDDY OF WORDSWORTH ON LIME STREET IN THE VILLAGE OF NETHER STOWE | COLERIDGE |
THIS CREATOR OF WILLY WONKA WROTE IN A HUT WHOSE DECOR INCLUDED BITS OF HIS OWN SPINE FROM AN OPERATION | ROALD DAHL |
THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN ROWAN OAK PRIOR TO FAULKNER, WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TITLE WOMAN IN "A ROSE FOR..." HER | EMILY |
A THIRD, MORE EXPLICIT VERSION OF THIS 1928 D.H. LAWRENCE NOVEL WAS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. IN 1959 | LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER |
HE LEFT HIS HEART AND THE REMAINS OF 2 WIVES "FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" AT STINSFORD CHURCH NEAR DORCHESTER | THOMAS HARDY |
THIS LATE AUTHOR OF CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS LIKE "OSWALD'S TALE" HAD 6 WIVES, INCLUDING THE ONE HE STABBED | NORMAN MAILER |
HE WROTE HIS STORIES ABOUT BERTIE WOOSTER & HIS MANSERVANT JEEVES OVER A PERIOD OF ABOUT 50 YEARS | P.G. WODEHOUSE |
THIS JAMES JOYCE WORK IS A DREAM SEQUENCE IN THE MINDS OF THE EARWICKER FAMILY | FINNEGAN'S WAKE |
CHARLES DICKENS GAVE THIS FAMILY 6 CHILDREN, BUT ONLY NAMED 4 OF THEM: MARTHA, BELINDA, PETER, AND TIM | CRATCHET |
IN "THE BIG FOUR", AGATHA CHRISTIE GAVE HIM A MYSTERIOUS "TWIN BROTHER" NAMED ACHILLE | HERCULE POIROT |
IN "WIDE SARGASSO SEA", WEST INDIAN AUTHOR JEAN RHYS WROTE ABOUT THE WEST INDIAN 1ST WIFE OF THIS "JANE EYRE" HERO | ROCHESTER |
IN THE 1930S, THIS CREATOR OF LORD PETER WIMSEY WROTE A LORD PETER PLAY CALLED "BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON" | DOROTHY SAYERS |
2008'S "THE PURRFECT MURDER" IS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF MYSTERIES BY THIS ACTIVIST AND HER CAT SNEAKY PIE | RITA MAE BROWN |
IN 1998 HER "PANDORA" CAME OUT OF THE BOX AS THE FIRST OF HER "NEW TALES OF THE VAMPIRES" | ANNE RICE |
CORRUPTION RUNS RAMPANT IN GORE VIDAL'S HISTORICAL NOVEL NAMED FOR THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR | 1876 |
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP | JOHN IRVING |
KIM EDWARDS CALLED HER MEMORABLE FIRST NOVEL "THE MEMORY KEEPER'S ..." THIS | DAUGHTER |
"THE STORY OF NAT TURNER HAD BEEN LONG GESTATING IN MY MIND, EVER SINCE I WAS A BOY", SAID THIS NOVELIST | WILLIAM STYRON |
A VISIT TO INDIA INSPIRED HIS NOVEL "SIDDHARTHA", PUBLISHED IN GERMAN IN 1922 | HERMANN HESSE |
HE FIRST FOUND FAME WITH HIS 1971 NOVEL "THE DAY OF THE JACKAL" | FREDERICK FORSYTHE |
THIS WESTERN AUTHOR GREW UP LISTENING TO TALES OF HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS SCALPED BY THE SIOUX | LOUIS L'AMOUR |
PUBLISHED IN 1724, HIS LAST MAJOR WORK OF FICTION WAS "ROXANA", ABOUT A COURTESAN, NOT A CASTAWAY | DANIEL DEFOE |
IN 1964'S "FROM DOON WITH DEATH", SHE INTRODUCED CHIEF INSPECTOR REGINALD WEXFORD | RUTH RENDELL |
THE CALDECOTT IS FOR ILLUSTRATORS; AUTHORS GET THIS MEDAL FOR THE MOST DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK | NEWBERRY |
IN THE 1950'S CHESTER HIMES MOVED TO PARIS, WHERE HE WROTE MURDER MYSTERIES LIKE "COTTON COMES TO..." HERE | HARLEM |
AUDIOTAPED INTERVIEWS OF THIS BLACK MUSLIM LEADER BECAME ALEX HALEY'S 1965 "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ..." HIM | MALCOLM X |
IN 1975 AN OKLAHOMA CITY LIBRARY WAS NAMED FOR THIS "INVISIBLE MAN" AUTHOR WHO WAS BORN IN THE CITY IN 1914 | RALPH ELLISON |
HER FOURTH NOVEL, "THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR", FEATURED SEVERAL CHARACTERS FROM "THE COLOR PURPLE" | ALICE WALKER |
IN THE EARLY 1920S, SHE SCANDALIZED ATLANTA SOCIETY BY DOING A PROVOCATIVE DANCE AT A DEBUTANTE BALL | MARGARET MITCHELL |
THIS SEAFARING AUTHOR HAD A LOT TO "WAIL" ABOUT; HIS SOMBER 1852 NOVEL "PIERRE" IS SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL | HERMAN MELVILLE |
THIS NOVELIST WHO WROTE ABOUT GORILLAS IN "CONGO", WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE GORILLA FOUNDATION | MICHAEL CRICHTON |
HIS FATHER DISAPPROVED OF HIS POETRY WRITING, SO CHILE'S NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASOALTO ADOPTED THIS PEN NAME | PABLO NERUDA |
IN 1842 HE LIVED WITH CANNIBALS IN THE TAIPI VALLEY IN THE MARQUESAS; HIS NOVEL "TYPEE" WAS BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE | HERMAN MELVILLE |
THE FIRST 2 PULITZERS FOR WRITING THESE, TO THE NY TRIBUNE AND LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL, DIDN'T NAME THE AUTHORS | EDITORIALS |
CECIL BODKER IS THE ONLY DANE TO WIN THE COVETED AWARD NAMED FOR THIS COUNTRYMAN | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN |
WALTER R. BROOKS CREATED ED THE TALKING HORSE AND FREDDY, THIS TALKING FARM ANIMAL | PIG |
ESTHER FORBES LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE IN THIS STATE AND SET HER NOVEL "JOHNNY TREMAIN" THERE | MASSACHUSETTS |
A CLERGYMAN KNOWN AS "THE PUFF-PUFF PARSON" CREATED THIS CHARACTER, THE BASIS OF A SERIES OF BOOKS, DVDS, ETC. | THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "GOOD NIGHT MOON" WAS A "COLORFUL" CHARACTER WHO KEPT PERISHABLE FOODS IN A WELL | MARGARET WISE BROWN |
IN 2003 HE HAD A BESTSELLER WITH "FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN" | MITCH ALBOM |
IN 1947 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST STORY COLLECTION "DARK CARNIVAL"; THE "MARTIAN CHRONICLES" CAME 3 YEARS LATER | RAY BRADBURY |
JAMES MICHENER'S "CENTENNIAL" CENTERS ON A FICTIONAL TOWN IN THIS STATE | COLORADO |
IN WILLA CATHER'S "O PIONEERS!", THE HEROINE ALEXANDRA BERGSON IS OF IMMIGRANT STOCK FROM THIS COUNTRY | SWEDEN |
IN 2007 HIS BOOK "THE ROAD" EARNED HIM A PULITZER PRIZE AND ENTRY INTO OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB | CORMAC MCCARTHY |
IN MACMILLAN'S SPRING 1936 CATALOG, HER UPCOMING NOVEL WAS MISIDENTIFIED AS "COME WITH THE WIND" | MARGARET MITCHELL |
AFTER WINNING AN OSCAR & A TONY, HE TRIED HIS HAND AT NOVELS LIKE "THE NAKED FACE" AND "THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT" | SIDNEY SHELDON |
THE KIDS' CLASSIC "WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS" FEATURES HIS POEMS AND DRAWINGS | SHEL SILVERSTEIN |
IN THE 1970S, THIS FORMER ACTOR ENJOYED SUCCESS AS THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "THE OTHER" AND "HARVEST HOME" | THOMAS TRYON |
HIS "A MOVEABLE FEAST" CALLS FITZGERALD'S TALENT AS NATURAL AS THE PATTERN OF DUST ON A BUTTERFLY'S WINGS | HEMINGWAY |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS WROTE THAT THIS "GENIUS FROM MISSOURI" HAD "AFFECTION FOR HIS FELLOWS, YET...DESPISED THEM" | TWAIN |
T.S. ELIOT WROTE THAT THIS "TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES" AUTHOR WAS "UNHAMPERED BY ANY IDEAS" | THOMAS HARDY |
BYRON ON THIS POET: "STRANGE, THE MIND, THAT VERY FIERY PARTICLE/ SHOULD LET ITSELF BE SNUFF'D OUT BY AN ARTICLE" | KEATS |
REVIEWING "AN IDEAL HUSBAND" GEORGE B. SHAW SAID THIS FELLOW IRISHMAN "HAS THE PROPERTY OF MAKING HIS CRITICS DULL" | OSCAR WILDE |
A BOOK WITH A MIX OF VARIOUS AUTHORS WRITING ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS | ANTHOLOGY |
HE WROTE BOOKS FOR GIRLS UNDER THE PEN NAME "MRS. EDITH VAN DYNE" | L. FRANK BAUM |
IN ADDITION TO THE "GOOSEBUMPS" SERIES, HE'S ALSO WRITTEN THE "FEAR STREET" SERIES FOR OLDER KIDS | R.L. STINE |
AMONG HER FAMOUS CHARACTERS ARE RAMONA QUIMBY, AND HENRY HUGGINS | BEVERLY CLEARY |
HIS WIDOW FELICITY SAID HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THE NEW "CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" MOVIE; HE HATED THE OLD ONE | ROALD DAHL |
KIDS LOVE HER AS MARY POPPINS AND AS THE AUTHOR OF "THE LAST OF THE REALLY GREAT WHANGDOODLES" | JULIE ANDREWS |
IN 2006 THIS FIRST LADY OF HIP-HOP CAME OUT WITH HER FIRST CHILDREN'S BOOK, "QUEEN OF THE SCENE" | QUEEN LATIFAH |
"CZECH" OUT HER TENNIS MYSTERIES LIKE "KILLER INSTINCT" AND "THE TOTAL ZONE" BY THIS FORMER CHAMP | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA |
LONG BEFORE PLAYING TV'S DR. GREGORY HOUSE, HE PUBLISHED A SPY SPOOF CALLED "THE GUN SELLER" | HUGH LAURIE |
WHILE HE WAS IN SPAIN IN 1959, HE WROTE "THE DANGEROUS SUMMER", A STORY ABOUT RIVAL BULLFIGHTERS | HEMINGWAY |
IN 1884 SHE MOVED TO RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA AND LATER FICTIONALIZED IT AS THE TOWN OF HANOVER IN "O PIONEERS!" | WILLA CATHER |
WILLIAM ROSE BENET WON A PULITZER FOR "THE DUST WHICH IS GOD", AND THIS BROTHER WON FOR "JOHN BROWN'S BODY" | STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |
THIS AUTHOR'S WORK AS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE WITH PINKERTON LENT AUTHENTICITY TO "THE MALTESE FALCON" | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
HE WROTE COMIC BOOK STORIES FOR "CAPTAIN AMERICA" AND "CAPTAIN MARVEL" BEFORE HITTING IT BIG WITH "I, THE JURY" | MICKEY SPILLANE |
IN THE 1930S, THIS AUTHOR OF "MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR" WAS A WRITER FOR COMEDIAN FRED ALLEN | HERMAN WOUK |
CARL SAGAN WAS CO-AUTHOR OF THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC PAPER TO PREDICT THAT THIS WEATHER CONDITION WOULD FOLLOW ATOMIC WAR | NUCLEAR WINTER |
MIDDLE NAME OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE | CHARLES |
WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "BUDDENBROOKS" AND "THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN" | THOMAS MANN |
IN 1954 CAMBRIDGE APPOINTED THIS CHILDREN'S AUTHOR AS A PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE LITERATURE | C.S. LEWIS |
IN POETRY, A CLOSED ONE IS, "A PERFECT JUDGE WILL READ EACH WORK OF WIT/ WITH THE SAME SPIRIT THAT ITS AUTHOR WRIT" | COUPLET |
IT'S MEXICAN AUTHOR LAURA ESQUIVEL'S SWEET TALE OF YOUNG TITA DE LA GARZA AND IT'S FULL OF RECIPES AND HOME REMEDIES | LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE |
STEVENS THE BUTLER NARRATES THIS 1989 NOVEL BY JAPANESE-BRITISH AUTHOR KAZUO ISHIGURO | REMAINS OF THE DAY |
IN 1966 THIS MAINE AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST SHORT STORY, "I WAS A TEENAGE GRAVE ROBBER" | STEPHEN KING |
BANK TELLER JOSEPH K. IS PUT ON TRIAL IN THIS AUTHOR'S "THE TRIAL" | KAFKA |
INTRODUCED IN "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS", EASY RAWLINS IS THE HERO OF SEVERAL MYSTERIES BY THIS AUTHOR | WALTER MOSELY |
THIS "BAMBI" AUTHOR WROTE A BOOK ABOUT A PROUD LIPIZZANER NAMED FLORIAN, REDUCED TO PULLING A CAB | FELIX SALTEN |
FROM THIS AUTHOR, WE GET THE ADJECTIVE "BROBDINGNAGIAN", MEANING "GIGANTIC" | JONATHAN SWIFT |
THIS "CANDIDE" AUTHOR'S 1752 WORK "MICROMEGAS" WAS AN EARLY STORY OF VISITORS FROM OTHER PLANETS | VOLTAIRE |
IN 1697 THIS "ROBINSON CRUSOE" AUTHOR WROTE "AN ESSAY UPON PROJECTS", IN WHICH HE RECOMMENDED AN INCOME TAX | DANIEL DEFOE |
AUTHOR OF "THE RAINBOW" | D.H. LAWRENCE |
APPROPRIATELY, IT'S THE TITLE OF THE 13TH & FINAL BOOK IN "A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS" | THE END |
IN MEG CABOT'S "VALENTINE PRINCESS", THIS GIRL'S GRANDMERE DISAPPROVES OF HER BOYFRIEND MICHAEL | PRINCESS MIA |
IN A BOOK BY IRENE HUNT, 9-YEAR-OLD JETHRO CREIGHTON LIVES DURING THE CIVIL WAR, WHICH LASTS "ACROSS FIVE..." OF THESE | APRILS |
DEATH NARRATES THIS NOVEL ABOUT LIESEL MEMINGER, WHO STEALS READING MATERIAL DURING WWII | THE BOOK THIEF |
THIS WORD THAT MEANS "WRITER" COMES FROM THE LATIN FOR "AGENT" | AUTHOR |
"MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN" AND "THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH" ARE 2 OF THIS AUTHOR'S WORKS THAT DID NOT RESULT IN A FATWA | SALMAN RUSHDIE |
EVERY JULY ON PLUM CREEK NEAR WALNUT GROVE, A PAGEANT IS PRESENTED HONORING THIS CHILDREN'S AUTHOR | LAURA INGALLS WILDER |
"THE MISSION SONG" IS THE 20TH NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF SPY THRILLERS LIKE "TINKER, TAYLOR, SOLDIER, SPY" | JOHN LE CARRE' |
THE FIRST NOVEL BY "KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN" AUTHOR MANUEL PUIG WAS "BETRAYED BY..." THIS SCREEN SIREN | RITA HAYWORTH |
PETRONIUS, AUTHOR OF THE "SATYRICON", WAS KNOWN AS "ELEGANTIAE ARBITER", OR "ARBITER OF ..." THIS | TASTE |
SHE DESCRIBED "AND THEN THERE WERE NONE" AS "A BETTER PIECE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP THAN ANYTHING ELSE" SHE WROTE | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
IN A 1972 RECORDING, "AN EVENING WITH..." THIS AUTHOR, SHE READ EXCERPTS FROM HER FAMOUS DIARY | ANIIS NIN |
MARRIED TO BESTSELLING AUTHOR JONATHAN KELLERMAN, SHE'S A BESTSELLING AUTHOR, TOO | FAYE KELLERMAN |
"THE SEBASTAPOL SKETCHES", "THE COSSACKS", AND "THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH" | TOLSTOY |
"GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER", "TIMEQUAKE", AND "MOTHER NIGHT" | KURT VONNEGUT |
THIS AUTHOR'S CHARACTER LENNIE IS STROKING THE HAIR OF CURLEY'S WIFE WHEN THINGS GO WRONG | STEINBECK |
AUTHOR IAN FLEMING WROTE THAT JAMES BOND LOOKED A LOT LIKE THIS COMPOSER OF "STARDUST" | HOAGY CARMICHAEL |
IN 1886 HE DECIDED TO CREATE A NEW KIND OF DETECTIVE WHO'D USE SCIENTIFIC METHODS RATHER THAN INTUITION | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
HE CREATED DOZENS OF MUSICAL WORKS AS WELL AS NOVELS LIKE "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" | ANTHONY BURGESS |
HENRY CHINASKI WAS THE ALTER EGO OF THIS LATE HARD-LIVING CALIFORNIA POET | CHARLES BUKOWSKI |
HIS MOTHER'S UNSOLVED MURDER WAS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CRIME AUTHOR'S 1996 NONFICTION WORK, "MY DARK PLACES" | JAMES ELLROY |
SINCE THE 19TH-C. THE DESCENDANTS OF HENRY "JOLLY HENRY" LIVINGSTON HAVE CLAIMED HIM AS THE AUTHOR OF THIS CHRISTMAS POEM | TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS |
IRVING STONE'S 1971 BESTSELLER, "THE PASSIONS OF THE MIND", WAS A FICTIONALIZED "NOVEL OF..." THIS MAN | FREUD |
WITH HIS "RABBIT AT REST", HE TURNED TO TODAY'S NEWS FOR HIS 2006 NOVEL "TERRORIST" | JOHN UPDIKE |
HE INTRODUCED THE SACKETT FAMILY IN HIS 1960 WESTERN NOVEL "THE DAYBREAKERS" | LOUIS L'AMOUR |
"MOTHER DIED TODAY" IS THE FIRST LINE OF THIS CAMUS NOVEL | THE STRANGER |
THIS PSYCHOLOGIST AND HIS AUTHOR BROTHER HENRY WERE EACH THE SUBJECTS OF PRIZE-WINNING BIOS; ONE IN 1936, AND THE OTHER IN 1963 | WILLIAM JAMES |
ETRUSCANS NEVER FORESAW IN 1875 HE'D PEN THE NOVEL "RODERICK HUDSON"; "DAISY MILLER" WOULD ARRIVE 3 YEARS LATER | HENRY JAMES |
THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR'S MAIDEN NAME WAS GODWIN | MARY SHELLEY |
IRELAND'S TEMPESTUOUS HISTORY HAS INSPIRED MANY HISTORICAL NOVELS, LIKE THIS AUTHOR'S 1976 BOOK "TRINITY" | LEON URIS |
IN 1830 BIOGRAPHER THOMAS MOORE BURNED THE MEMOIRS OF THIS ARISTOCRATIC BRIT TO PROTECT THE POET'S REPUTATION | BYRON |
THIS FICITONAL FEMALE SLEUTH AND DONALD BAIN ARE LISTED AS CO-AUTHORS ON THE "MURDER, SHE WROTE" SERIES | JESSICA FLETCHER |
THIS PHYSICIAN AND AUTHOR HAS BEEN CALLED "THE MAN WHO REARED 50 MILLION KIDS" | DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK |
YOU CAN VISIT THE MOSCOW HOUSE WHERE THIS AUTHOR AND SOME OF HIS 13 KIDS SPENT TIME FROM 1882 TO 1901 | TOLSTOY |
IN 2001, HAYDEN PLANETARIUM IN NYC HOSTED THE FIRST ANNUAL MEMORIAL PANEL DEBATE NAMED FOR THIS SCI-FI AUTHOR | ASIMOV |
SHE WON A PULITZER FOR "THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER" | EUDORA WELTY |
LEMONY SNICKET SHOULD KNOW THIS NOVELIST PENNED "ADVERBS" AND "WATCH YOUR MOUTH" | DANIEL HANDLER |
ANCESTORS OF THIS ELUSIVE MODERN AUTHOR PROTESTED AFTER HAWTHORNE USED THEIR NAME IN "THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES" | THOMAS PYNCHON |
ON PUBLICATION IN 1915, HIS "THE RAINBOW" WAS LABELED OBSCENE AND BANNED, AND UNSOLD COPIES WERE DESTROYED | D.H. LAWRENCE |
IN A PIRANDELLO TITLE, THEY'RE "IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR" | SIX CHARACTERS |
THE AUTHOR OF THE FIRST ENTIRELY SELF-WRITTEN SLAVE NARRATIVE WAS NAMED GUSTAVUS VASSA, FOR A KING OF THIS COUNTRY | SWEDEN |
AMERICAN AUTHOR EDGAR LAWRENCE ______ | E.L. DOCTOROW |
"WORN OUT" SURNAME OF "KING SOLOMON'S MINES" AUTHOR | HENRY RIDER HAGGARD |
THIS "THE WAVES" AUTHOR THOUGHT "SURELY IT WAS TIME SOMEONE INVENTED A NEW PLOT" | VIRGINIA WOOLF |
TO DESCRIBE A SOCIETY WHERE THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, ADD -IAN TO THE NAME OF THIS BRITISH AUTHOR | ORWELL |
IT'S NOT NONSENSE TO SAY THIS AUTHOR WAS ORDAINED A DEACON IN 1861 | LEWIS CARROLL |
VIRGINIA WOOLF ORIGINALLY CALLED HER "MRS. DALLOWAY" NOVEL THIS, LIKE A 2002 NICOLE KIDMAN MOVIE | THE HOURS |
TYRONE SLOTHROP IS A CENTRAL CHARACTER IS HIS NOVEL "GRAVITY'S RAINBOW" | THOMAS PYNCHON |
PART ONE OF THIS CARSON MCCULLERS NOVEL SAYS FRANKIE "BELONGED TO NO CLUB AND WAS A MEMBER OF NOTHING IN THE WORLD" | THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING |
IN 1912 THIS POLISH-BORN AUTHOR SHARED WITH READERS "THE SECRET SHARER", A SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH | JOSEPH CONRAD |
THIS THEOLOGIAN AUTHOR OF "SUMMA THEOLOGICA" WAS MADE A SAINT IN 1323 AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH IN 1567 | THOMAS AQUINAS |
IN 2006 THIS JEANS-CLAD AUTHOR & DIANA OSSANA WON AN OSCAR FOR THEIR SCREENPLAY OF "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN" | LARRY MCMURTRY |
JOHN BERENDT, AUTHOR OF THIS 1994 BESTSELLER ABOUT SAVANNAH, WRITES THAT THE CITY'S 22 SQUARES ARE ITS TREASURES | MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL |
ALTHOUGH HIS NAME IS NOW A SYNONYM FOR RAGS-TO-RICHES SUCCESS, THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR NEVER ACHIEVED THAT SUCCESS | HORATIO ALGER |
LAST NAME OF THE "KINKY" AUTHOR OF "'SCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT" WHO RAN FOR TEXAS GOVERNOR IN 2006 | KINKY FRIEDMAN |
AMERICA'S FIRST LITERARY LION, THIS "HISTORY OF NEW YORK" AUTHOR MENTORED HAWTHORNE AND POE | WASHINGTON IRVING |
AUTHOR OF "THE MAN", "THE WORD", AND "THE CELESTIAL BED" | IRVING WALLACE |
THIS AUTHOR'S LUST FOR BIOGRAPHY INFLUENCED HIM TO PEN WORKS ABOUT DARWIN AND VAN GOGH | IRVING STONE |
THIS WEST POINT GRAD WROTE UP THE AUTHORITATIVE PARLIAMENTARY RULES OF ORDER | ROBERT |
THIS "HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES" AUTHOR CO-WROTE 1974'S "THE MYTHIC IMAGE", WHICH EXPLORED ICONOGRAPHY | JOSEPH CAMPBELL |
THIS AUTHOR FAMOUSLY ESCAPED THE FIRESTORM FROM THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN BY HIDING IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE | KURT VONNEGUT |
IN A WORK BY THIS DRAMATIST, TREPLIOV KILLS A SEA GULL, THE SYMBOL OF HIS BROKEN DREAMS | CHEKOV |
"THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" IS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS LIMA-BORN WOMAN | ISABEL ALLENDE |
IN ITALY IN OCT. 2005, THIS AUTHOR HELPED RE-CREATE THE EXPERIMENT WITH FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM | UMBERTO ECO |
THIS AUTHOR WAS NICE ENOUGH TO REMIND US IN "BEING AND NOTHINGNESS" THAT HUMAN EFFORT IS USELESS | SARTRE |
THIS LITERARY WHIZ' NAME IS SOMETIMES TRANSLITERATED FROM BENGALI AS RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA | TAGORE |
AS A CHILD, JOSEPH CONRAD POINTED TO THE CENTER OF THIS CONTINENT ON A MAP AND SAID, "I SHALL GO THERE" | AFRICA |
HER DIARIES TRACE BACK TO ONE SHE BEGAN AS AN 11-YEAR-OLD ABOARD A SHIP IN 1914 | ANIIS NIN |
IN PENNY LANE, WHERE THIS "HELLRAISER" GREW UP, THE BARBER SHAVES ANOTHER CUSTOMER...THEN FLAYS HIM ALIVE! | CLIVE BARKER |
THIS AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL "FALCONER" WON A 1979 PULITZER PRIZE FOR SOME OF HIS SHORT STORIES | JOHN CHEEVER |
A 1981 THRILLER BY THIS AUTHOR OPENS WITH THE DISCOVERY OF 3 FACELESS CORPSES HERE IN THE TITLE SETTING, MOSCOW'S GORKY PARK | MARTIN CRUZ SMITH |
HE WROTE ABOUT GOPHER PRAIRIE IN 1920 | SINCLAIR LEWIS |
THIS AUTHOR PENNED THE IMMORTAL LINE "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE" | PADDY CHAYEFSKY |
IN 1902 ALFRED DREYFUS ATTENDED THIS AUTHOR'S FUNERAL | ZOLA |
IN A 1990S NOVEL, STEPHANIE BARRON HAD THE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY TO TURN THIS AUTHOR INTO A SLEUTH | JANE AUSTEN |
AUTHOR OF "HUMBOLDT'S GIFT" | SAUL BELLOW |
THE COOKED UP "IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN" | MAURICE SENDAK |
NICODEMUS FRAPP IS A NARROW-MINDED EVANGELIST IN "TONO-BUNGAY", A 1909 NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE TIME MACHINE" | H.G. WELLS |
STARBUCKS BEGAN PUTTING QUOTES ON ITS CUPS BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE" | RICK WARREN |
HE'S THE AMERICAN AUTHOR & CARTOONIST BEST KNOWN FOR LI'L ABNER | AL CAPP |
HE WROTE, "CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN. NAKED PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY" | TWAIN |
IN 1999 THIS "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS" AUTHOR WAS HONORED AS AN INDIANA LIVING LEGEND | KURT VONNEGUT |
IN 1976 THIS AUTHOR OF "A MONETARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1867-1960" WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS | MILTON FRIEDMAN |
BRITISH AUTHOR OF "I, CLAUDIUS" | ROBERT GRAVES |
JAMES THURBER SHARED THIS MIDDLE NAME WITH THE 22ND AND 24TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. | GROVER |
"DRAGON'S TEETH", ONE OF 11 NOVELS FEATURING LANNY BUDD, WON THIS MUCKRAKER THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR 1942 | UPTON SINCLAIR |
A VICTORIAN AUTHOR WHO REWROTE SHAKESPEARE TO BE LESS OFFENSIVE LENT HIS NAME TO THIS WORD MEANING "TO CENSOR" | BOWDLERIZE |
"HEIDI" AUTHOR | JOHANNA SPYRI |
TURGENEV REGARDED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE COSSACKS" AS THE "GREAT AUTHOR OF THE RUSSIAN LAND" | TOLSTOY |
IN "EXEMPLARY TALES", A 1613 COLLECTION, HE CLAIMED TO BE THE FIRST TO WRITE SHORT STORIES IN CASTILIAN | CERVANTES |
THIS ACCLAIMED AUTHOR WAS BORN IN 1928 IN ARACATACA, COLOMBIA | GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ |
AUTHOR OF "SHOW BOAT" | EDNA FERBER |
THIS AUTHOR OF "A MODEST PROPOSAL" WAS DEAFENED DUE TO MENIERE'S DISEASE | JONATHAN SWIFT |
AUTHOR OF "BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE" | CARSON MCCULLERS |
2 AFFAIRS INSPIRED BAUDELAIRE'S POEM CYCLES TITLED "BLACK AND WHITE..." THIS LOVE GODDESS | VENUS |
WRITER OF "BLACK AND WHITE VENUS" POEMS | BAUDELAIRE |
GARCIA LORCA WROTE "LAMENT OF A BULLFIGHTER" IN 1935, BUT A YEAR LATER HE WAS THE LAMENTED ONE IN THIS WAR | SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
SPANISH WRITER OF "LAMENT FOR A BULLFIGHTER"; HE WAS KILLED DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR | GARCIA LORCA |
THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN WHAT WAS THEN DANZIG; "CAT AND MOUSE", "DOG YEARS", AND "THE TIN DRUM" MAKE UP HIS DANZIG TRILOGY | GUNTER GRASSE |
GERMAN AUTHOR OF "THE TIN DRUM" | GUNTER GRASSE |
IN THE 1970S MILAN KUNDERA WAS STRIPPED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP BY THIS COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
AUTHOR OF "HOW THE WEST WAS WON" | LOUIS L'AMOUR |
A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM THIS "WINESBURG, OHIO" AUTHOR HELPED HEMINGWAY MEET THE LITERARY LIGHTS OF EUROPE | SHERWOOD ANDERSON |
JOHANN AND GOTTHOLD ARE 2 OF THE BUDDENBROOKS, THE TITLE FAMILY IN A NOVEL BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | THOMAS MANN |
IN 2004 THIS AUTHOR OF "TRUE WEST" RETURNED TO THE STAGE, ACTING IN "A NUMBER", A PLAY ABOUT HUMAN CLONING | SAM SHEPARD |
WHEN ASKING FOR THE NAME OF THIS MID-20TH-C. BRITISH AUTHOR, WE WILL OF COURSE ACCEPT HIS REAL NAME, ERIC BLAIR | GEORGE ORWELL |
ILLNESS PREVENTED HER FROM FINISHING "SANDITON"; "NORTHANGER ABBEY" WAS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY | JANE AUSTEN |
IN 2004, THIS SCOTTISH AUTHOR OF "THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE" PUBLISHED "THE FINISHING SCHOOL" | MURIEL SPARK |
ALICE WALKER HELPED REVIVE INTEREST IN THIS AUTHOR DUBBED "THE QUEEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE" | ZORA NEAL HURSTON |
THEA KRONBORG IS A PREACHER'S DAUGHTER WHO BECOMES A SINGER IN HER NOVEL, "THE SONG OF THE LARK" | WILLA CATHER |
A CASE OF ARSENIC POISONING IS DEFTLY SOLVED IN THIS AUTHOR'S 1932 STORY "THE TUESDAY NIGHT CLUB" | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
A PLAY REHEARSAL IS INTERRUPTED BY STRANGERS AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS "SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR" | PIRANDELLO |
THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR'S WORKS INCLUDE THE 500,000-YEAR SPANNING "TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR" | ALICE WALKER |
THIS AUTHOR OF "DELIVERANCE" WAS A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SC IN COLUMBIA | JAMES DICKEY |
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI BROUGHT THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL, "THE SHELTERING SKY", TO THE BIG SCREEN IN 1990 | PAUL BOWLES |
AUTHOR OF "HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK" | TERRY MCMILLAN |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBER'S MUSICAL "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" IS BASED ON A 19TH-C. NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE MOONSTONE" | WILKIE COLLINS |
THIS 17TH-C. FRENCH AUTHOR IS KNOWN FOR "BRITANNICUS" AND "BERENICE" | RACINE |
AN IDEAL KNIGHT OF THIS "CANTERBURY TALES" AUTHOR WAS VALOROUS BUT "PRUDENT AND AS MEEK AS A MAID OF HIS BEARING" | CHAUCER |
THIS AUTHOR CREATED GILBERTE SWANN, WHO ENTRANCES THE YOUNG MARCEL | PROUST |
"ZATHURA" IS FROM A BOOK BY CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AUTHOR OF THIS "COOL" STORY, LATER A TOM HANKS ANIMATED FILM | POLAR EXPRESS |
IN 2004 REESE WITHERSPOON STARRED IN THE BIG SCREEN VERSION OF "VANITY FAIR" BY THIS AUTHOR | THACKERY |
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS AUTHOR TO WHOM THE NOVEL "MOBY DICK" IS DEDICATED | HAWTHORNE |
INTERNET USERS HAVE SOUTH CAROLINA-BORN SCI-FI AUTHOR WILLIAM GIBSON TO THANK FOR THIS 10-LETTER TERM | CYBERSPACE |
LITERALLY, "BLANK DOCUMENT", IT'S THE 2-WORD FRENCH TERM FOR UNCONDITIONAL AUTHORITY | CARTE BLANCHE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS" SPENT HIS LAST YEARS WITH THE FORMER PROPRIETRESS OF A FLORIDA BROTHEL | STEPHEN CRANE |
HE WAS EVENTUALLY BURIED IN THE ILLINOIS CEMETARY THAT INSPIRED HIS "SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY" | EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
BORN IN 1778, HE MUST HAVE PICKED UP SOME DANDY HABITS AT ETON, AS HE WENT ON TO BE QUITE THE FASHION AUTHORITY | BEAU BRUMMELL |
IN 2005 AUDIENCES WERE ON "THE RAZOR'S EDGE" OF THEIR SEATS WATCHING "THE CONSTANT WIFE" BY THIS AUTHOR | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
THE BRITISH AUTHOR OF "PILGRIMAGE" OR A 2-TIME U.S. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SOFTBALL PLAYER | DOT RICHARDSON |
IN 1822 WHEN THIS AUTHOR ORGANIZED A ROYAL VISIT TO EDINBURGH, HE WORE A KILT AND GOT GEORGE IV TO SPORT ONE ALSO | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
IN "WINTER ON MAJORCA", THIS AUTHOR DESCRIBES A WRETCHED STAY ON THIS ISLAND WITH HER AILING LOVER CHOPIN | GEORGE SAND |
HIS FATHER EMMET, A COUNTRY DOCTOR, GAVE HIM MUCH OF THE BACKGROUND FOR DR. KENNICOTT IN HIS NOVEL, "MAIN STREET" | SINCLAIR LEWIS |
KENTUCKY'S FIRST GOVERNOR, ISAAC SHELBY, WAS A DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THIS "CIVIL WAR : A NARRATIVE" AUTHOR | SHELBY FOOTE |
THIS MELANCHOLIC PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR OF "FEAR AND TREMBLING" WAS A FRAIL HUNCHBACK BORN IN DENMARK IN 1813 | KIERKEGAARD |
PAULINE REAGE IS CREDITED AS THE ONCE-ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THIS STEAMY "STORY OF ..." | STORY OF O |
WAR CORRESPONDENT MARTHA GELLHORN WAS MARRIED TO THIS AUTHOR FROM 1940 TO 1945 | HEMINGWAY |
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POET DELMORE SCHWARTZ INSPIRED THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL "HUMBOLDT'S GIFT" | SAUL BELLOW |
HE BASED "THE MOON AND THE SIXPENCE" ON THE LIFE OF GAUGUIN, BUT HIS CHARACTER WAS BRITISH | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
THIS AUTHOR WHO SERVED IN THE NEW HEBRIDES IN WWII TRANSFORMED THE VANUATAN ISLAND OF UNBOI INTO HIS BALI HAI | JAMES MICHENER |
IN 2001, AT THE NYC PUBLIC LIBRARY, OPRAH WINFREY AND JESSYE NORMAN HELPED PAY TRIBUTE TO THIS AUTHOR ON HER 70TH BIRTHDAY | TONI MORRISON |
IN 1776 SCULPTOR JEAN BAPTISTE PIGALLE CREATED A NUDE STATUE OF THIS AUTHOR | VOLTAIRE |
THIS WAS SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL | THE BELL JAR |
THIS LATE AUTHOR CREATED THE CHARACTER OF JASON BOURNE | ROBERT LUDLUM |
BOOKS LIKE "LUST FOR LIFE" EARNED HIM THE NICKNAME "KING OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL" | IRVING STONE |
"YES, THIS WAS VENICE...HALF FAIRY-TALE, HALF SNARE", WROTE THIS AUTHOR IN "DEATH IN VENICE" | THOMAS MANN |
AMERICAN AUTHOR WHO WROTE "THE WINGS OF THE DOVE" AND "THE ASPERN PAPERS" | HENRY JAMES |
HE CREATED THE NADSAT LANGUAGE FOR HIS NOVEL "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" | ANTHONY BURGESS |
THIS 19TH-C. ENGLISH AUTHOR ALSO WROTE THE BOOKS "CURIOSA MATHEMATICA" AND "SYMBOLIC LOGIC" | CHARLES DODGSON (LEWIS CARROLL) |
THIS REPUTED "NATURE OF MAN" AUTHOR WAS BORN ON THE GREEK ISLAND OF COS AROUND 460 B.C. | HIPPOCRATES |
MAIDEN NAME OF MARY DODGE | MAPES |
MAIDEN NAME OF ADELA ST. JOHNS | ROGERS |
MAIDEN NAME OF MARY RINEHART | ROBERTS |
IN 2001 THIS AUTHOR WON A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR BEST AMERICAN WORK OF FICTION FOR "THE HUMAN STAIN" | PHILIP ROTH |
IN BOOK 10, "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE", THIS AUTHOR'S BAUDELAIRE SIBLINGS ARE AT IT AGAIN | LEMONY SNICKET |
THOUGH ATTRIBUTED TO "ANONYMOUS", 1996'S "PRIMARY COLORS" WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY THIS AUTHOR | JOE KLEIN |
THIS TRUMP FAMILY MINISTER AND AUTHOR OF "THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING" PERFORMED THE DONALD'S WEDDING TO IVANA | NORMAN VINCENT PEALE |
HE WROTE "THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE" | EDWARD GIBBON |
IN 2002 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS PUBLISHED A BOOK CALLED "WHY...MATTERS", ABOUT THIS GREAT ANTI-TOTALITARIAN WRITER | GEORGE ORWELL |
KEEP UP: "FLIGHT INTO DANGER" BY THIS "AIRPORT" AUTHOR WAS FILMED AS "ZERO HOUR!" AND LATER SPOOFED AS "AIRPLANE" | ARTHUR HAILEY |
BORN IN BUDAPEST, HE'S BEST KNOWN FOR HIS 1940 NOVEL "DARKNESS AT NOON" | ARTHUR KOESTLER |
BORN IN 1854, HE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "THE PRECOCIOUS BOY-POET OF FRENCH SYMBOLISM" | ARTHUR RIMBAUD |
THIS GERMAN PHILOSOPHER WAS KNOWN FOR HIS PESSIMISTIC LIFE VIEWS AND KANT-INFLUENCED WORKS | ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER |
IT'S NO MYSTERY; HE WAS KNIGHTED IN 1902 FOR HIS WORK DEFENDING BRITISH POLICY IN THE BOER WAR | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
THE AUTHOR OF ABOUT 40 BOOKS, HE WAS WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPION IN 1950 | CHARLES GOREN |
ORLANDO IS THE TITLE HERO/HEROINE OF THIS AUTHOR'S 1928 TIME-TRAVELING, GENDER-BENDING NOVEL | VIRGINIA WOOLF |
POEM & POET: "THEN THIS EBONY BIRD BEGUILING MY SAD FANCY INTO SMILING" | "THE RAVEN" POE |
POEM & POET: "LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!" | "OZYMANDIAS" SHELLEY |
POEM & POET: "THE SEA IS CALM TONIGHT. THE TIDE IS FULL, THE MOON LIES FAIR UPON THE STRAITS" | "DOVER BEACH" ARNOLD |
HE WROTE THE SOMEWHAT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL 1858 PLAY "LE FILS NATUREL", OR "THE NATURAL SON" | ALEXANDRE DUMAS (THE SON) |
AS AN ASSISSTANT TO THIS AUTHOR, SAMUEL BECKETT HAD TO FIGHT OFF THE ADVANCES OF HIS DAUGHTER LUCIA | JAMES JOYCE |
IN 1810, IN ATHENS, THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE, "MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE ART, GIVE, OH, GIVE ME BACK MY HEART" | BYRON |
THIS AUTHOR OF FANTASY, SCI-FI, AND RELIGIOUS WORKS WAS PORTRAYED BY ANTHONY HOPKINS IN "SHADOWLANDS" | C.S. LEWIS |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE FIXER" | BERNARD MALAMUD |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF "A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES" | JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE |
A.A. MILNE'S PLAY, "TOAD OF TOAD HALL", WAS BASED ON A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR | KENNETH GRAHAME |
STARTING IN 1952 WITH "DAVID STARR, SPACE RANGER", THIS PROLIFIC AUTHOR WROTE MANY SCI-FI NOVELS UNDER THE NAME PAUL FRENCH | ISAAC ASIMOV |
AUTHOR OF "I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS" | TOM WOLFE |
1988 EGYPTIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER | MAHFOUZ |
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER KNUT HAMSUN HAILS FROM THIS COUNTRY | NORWAY |
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER HALLDOR LAXNESS IS FROM HERE | ICELAND |
THIS VIRGINIA WOOLF-INSPIRED NOVEL EARNED MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM THE 1999 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION | THE HOURS |
DAN BROWN INTRODUCED HIS SYMBOLOGIST ROBERT LANGDON IN THIS PRE-"DA VINCI CODE" NOVEL | ANGELS AND DEMONS |
JOHN KNOWLES' EXPERIENCES AT PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY INSPIRED THIS 1960 NOVEL SET AT A PREP SCHOOL DURING WWII | A SEPARATE PEACE |
A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR ENDS, "AND THE MUSIC OF THE PEARL DRIFTED TO A WHISPER AND DISAPPEARED" | STEINBECK |
CREATOR OF CONAN, THE WARRIOR BARBARIAN FROM CIMMERIA | ROBERT HOWARD |
THE FIRST COLLECTION OF THIS AUTHOR'S SHORT STORIES WAS 1898'S "DER KLEINE HERR FRIEDEMANN" | THOMAS MANN |
"MARAT/SADE" IS THE MOST FAMOUS PLAY BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | PETER WEISS |
ANN M. MARTIN IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK SERIES ABOUT THIS "CLUB" | THE BABY-SITTER'S CLUB |
COMEDIAN-AUTHOR OF "BRAIN DROPPINGS" | GEORGE CARLIN |
HE CALLS THE MOMENT WHEN SOCIAL PHENOMENA REACH CRITICAL MASS "THE TIPPING POINT" | MALCOLM GLADWELL |
THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING RODIN'S MONUMENT TO THIS FRENCH AUTHOR WAS A REAL "HUMAN COMEDY" | HONORE DE BALZAC |
THE CREEPY EARLY NOVELS OF THIS AUTHOR OF "ATONEMENT" GOT HIM DUBBED "IAN MACABRE" | IAN McEWAN |
IN THIS RUSSIAN-AMERICAN'S "PALE FIRE", JOHN SHADE IS THE LATE AUTHOR OF A 999-LINE POEM | VLADIMIR NABAKOV |
WRITER PHILIP QUARLES IN "POINT COUNTER POINT" IS A SELF-PORTRAIT BY THIS AUTHOR | ALDUS HUXLEY |
THIS 1962 NOVEL WAS PARTLY INSPIRED BY AN ASSAULT ON AUTHOR ANTHONY BURGESS' PREGNANT WIFE | A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
THE YIDDISH GREETING FOR "PEACE BE WITH YOU" GAVE SOLOMON RABINOWITZ THIS PEN NAME | SHOLOM ALEICHEM |
HIS STORY, "I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!" WAS ADAPTED AS AN EPISODE OF "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" | RAY BRADBURY |
"ACCORDING TO..." THIS AUTHOR, "THE DELAWARE'S THEMSELVES ACKNOWLEDGE THE ROYALTY OF THE MOHICANS" | JAMES FENIMORE COOPER |
KURT VONNEGUT'S OPENING REMARKS ON THIS AUTHOR SAY, "HIS SCHOOLBOOKS WERE STEAMBOATS AND MINING CAMPS" | MARK TWAIN |
FOR THE BALLET "COPPELIA", LEO DELIBES USED "THE SANDMAN", ONE OF THE "TALES OF..." THIS AUTHOR | E.T.A. HOFFMANN |
THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS AUTHOR'S "MAGISTER LUDI" MEANS, "THE GLASS BEAD GAME" | HERMAN HESSE |
SPANISH AUTHOR OF "THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA" | GARCIA LORCA |
A WOMAN RAISED IN GREENLAND IS AN EXPERT ON ALL THINGS ICY IN THIS 1993 NOVEL BY DANISH AUTHOR PETER HOEG | SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW |
THIS "BEN-HUR" AUTHOR WAS REMOVED FROM COMMAND AND REINSTATED TWICE | LEW WALLACE |
WRITING ABOUT THIS ANCIENT AUTHOR, KEATS MUSED, "THERE IS A TRIPLE SIGHT IN BLINDNESS KEEN" | HOMER |
THIS FRENCH AUTHOR POKED FUN AT MAN'S FOLLIES IN HIS STINGING SATIRE "GARGANTUA" | RABELAIS |
OPRAH GAVE READERS 2 SHAKES OF THIS AUTHOR'S TALES: "SHE'S COME UNDONE" AND "I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE" | WALLY LAMB |
THERE'S NO DIALOGUE IN THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL "THE PAINTED BIRD" | JERZY KOSINSKI |
AUTHOR OF "THE DAY OF THE LOCUST" | NATHANIEL WEST |
IN "NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES" THIS AUTHOR WROTE, "I BELIEVE THERE IS AN UNSEEN WORLD ALL AROUND US" | STEPHEN KING |
THE AVANT-GARDE AUTHOR OF "THREE LIVES", HER HOME WAS A SALON FOR EMERGING ARTISTS SUCH AS PICASSO & BRAQUE | GERTRUDE STEIN |
THERE ARE MUSEUMS DEVOTED TO THIS WRITER IN NAIROBI, KENYA AND IN RUNGSTEDLUND, DENMARK | ISAK DINESEN |
IN 1929 THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WAS BESTOWED UPON THIS "MAGIC MOUNTAIN" AUTHOR | THOMAS MANN |
THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S LAST STORY ABOUT THIS DETECTIVE WAS "THE ADVENTURE OF SHOSCOMBE OLD PLACE" | SHERLOCK HOLMES |
IN 1945 THIS "SPACE ODYSSEY" AUTHOR SUGGESTED A SPACE-BASED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | ARTHUR C. CLARKE |
IN A 1970 BOOK THIS AUTHOR WROTE, "THE GULL SEES FARTHEST WHO SEES HIGHEST" | RICHARD BACH |
IN 1882, AT AGE 16, HE FOUND WORK AS SUB-EDITOR OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE IN LAHORE, INDIA | KIPLING |
UMBERTO ECO IS A NATIVE OF THIS COUNTRY | ITALY |
PUBLISHED IN 1969, "SETTING FREE THE BEARS" WAS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR | JOHN IRVING |
LULA CARSON SMITH WAS THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THIS "REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE" AUTHOR | CARSON MCCULLERS |
IN A POEM IN THIS 1855 COLLECTION, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | LEAVES OF GRASS |
THE 1874 NOVEL "HIS NATURAL LIFE" BY THIS AUSSIE AUTHOR NAMED MARCUS WAS STILL A GOOD READ IN 2001 | CLARKE |
POPULAR BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "RAMONA THE PEST" AND "THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE" | BEVERLY CLEARY |
AUTHOR OF "THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE" | THOMAS HARDY |
SHERWOOD ANDERSON WAS THE MODEL FOR DAWSON FAIRCHILD IN "MOSQUITOES", A 1927 NOVEL BY THIS MISSISSIPPI AUTHOR | FAULKNER |
THIS AUTHOR VISITED THE TYPEE VALLEY ON NUKU HIVA AND HIS 1846 "PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE" IS SET HERE | HERMAN MELVILLE |
THE INITIALS OF THIS BRITISH AUTHOR OF "CRASH" AND "MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE" STAND FOR JAMES GRAHAM | J.G. BALLARD |
NATIVE LAND OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ | COLOMBIA |
NATIVE LAND OF RUDYARD KIPLING | INDIA |
NATIVE LAND OF DEPTFORD TRILOGIST ROBERTSON DAVIES | CANADA |
SHE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR TO WIN A PULITZER PRIZE; SHE WON IN 1950 FOR POETRY | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
LIKE GERTRUDE IN THIS AUTHOR'S "THE EUROPEANS", GO AHEAD AND MARRY A RELATIVE | HENRY JAMES |
A 1927 VISIT TO ETRUSCAN SITES INSPIRED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE PLUMED SERPENT" TO WRITE "ETRUSCAN PIECES" | D.H. LAWRENCE |
THIS BRONTE SISTER BASED THE DEBAUCHED HUNTINGDON IN "THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL" ON HER BROTHER BRANWELL | ANNE BRONTE |
THE TITLE OF THIS D.H. LAWRENCE NOVEL REFERS TO THE BRANGWEN SISTERS | WOMEN IN LOVE |
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, ee cummings, AND THIS "U.S.A." TRILOGY AUTHOR ALL DROVE AMBULANCES IN THE WAR | JOHN DOS PASSOS |
MAIDEN NAME OF THE AUTHOR OF "A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN" | WOLLSTONECRAFT |
AUTHOR OF "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS" | WALTER MOSELY |
THE HERO OF THE FIRST BOOK BY "LITTLE PRINCE" AUTHOR ST.-EXUPERY IS A PILOT WHO DELIVERS THIS | |
TANT PIS, THE CRUCIAL EXPANSION OF EXISTENTIAL THOUGHT BY THIS FRENCH AUTHOR WAS CUT ALL TOO SHORT | CAMUS |
FORD MADDOX FORD WROTE 3 NOVELS WITH THIS "HEART OF DARKNESS" AUTHOR | JOSEPH CONRAD |
"DECK THE HALLS", A CHRISTMAS THRILLER, WAS A JOINT EFFORT BY CAROL HIGGINS CLARK AND THIS AUTHOR, HER MOM | MARY HIGGINS CLARK |
A SLEUTH NAMED KINSEY MILLHONE IS THE HEROINE OF HER ALPHABET MYSTERIES | SUE GRAFTON |
IN 1949 THIS NOBEL LAUREATE FOUNDED WELCOME HOUSE, AN ADOPTION AGENCY SPECIALIZING IN ASIAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN | PEARL S. BUCK |
HAVING OVER 50,000 MEMBERS PUTS THIS "ANGLER" AUTHOR'S LEAGUE IN THE BIG LEAGUES | IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE |
AUTHOR OF "AMELIE" AND "TOM JONES" | HENRY FIELDING |
AUTHOR OF "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" AND "OF LOVE AND SHADOWS" | ISABEL ALLENDE |
AUTHOR OF "THE HOUSE OF MIRTH" AND "ETHAN FROME" | EDITH WHARTON |
WHILE IN PRISON, THIS "PILGRIM'S PROGESS" AUTHOR SUPPORTED HIS FAMILY BY MAKING SHOELACES | JOHN BUNYAN |
THE AUTHOR OF "A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM", THIS CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1986 | ELIE WIESEL |
THIS RUSSIAN POET & AUTHOR OF THE DRAMA "BORIS GODUNOV" DIED FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED IN A DUEL IN 1837 | PUSHKIN |
THE MIDDLE CLASS IS SKEWERED IN THE INCOMPLETE NOVEL "BOUVARD AND PECUCHET" BY FRENCH AUTHOR GUSTAVE... | FLAUBERT |
THIS CHILDREN'S AUTHOR COOKED UP "CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE" | MAURICE SENDAK |
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS' BOOK OF THIS CHARACTER'S SONGS AND SAYINGS WAS SUBTITLED "LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION" | UNCLE REMUS |
GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA, BORN IN CAMAGUEY ON THIS ISLAND, GAINED FAME IN SPAIN AS A ROMANTIC AUTHOR | CUBA |
THIS AUTHOR'S BESTSELLER "PRESUMED INNOCENT" BECAME A MOVIE STARRING HARRISON FORD | SCOTT TUROW |
THOUGH HE WON A PULITZER FOR "NEW HAMPSHIRE", YOU'LL FIND THIS POET'S REMAINS IN A CEMETARY IN VERMONT | FROST |
"CALLED BACK" IS THE EPITAPH ON THIS POET'S AMHERST GRAVE | DICKINSON |
PULITZER PRIZE FOR "THE REIVERS" | FAULKNER |
PULITZER PRIZE FOR "A BELL FOR ADANO" | JOHN HERSEY |
PULITZER PRIZE FOR "ADVISE AND CONSENT" | ALLEN DRURY |
19TH-C. RUSSIAN AUTHOR OF "DEAD SOULS", "THE NOSE", AND "THE INSPECTOR GENERAL" | GOGOL |
CREATOR OF SAM SPADE | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
CREATOR OF V.I. WARSHAWSKI | SARA PARETSKY |
CREATOR OF PHILLIP MARLOWE | RAYMOND CHANDLER |
CREATOR OF THE SLEUTH BISHOP BLACKIE RYAN | ANDREW GREELEY |
19TH-C. AUTHOR MARY ANN EVANS WROTE UNDER THIS PEN NAME | GEORGE ELIOT |
HE BASED MARK RAMPION IN "POINT COUNTER POINT" ON HIS FRIEND D.H. LAWRENCE; PHILIP QUARLES WAS BASED ON HIMSELF | ALDUS HUXLEY |
MAHICANS LIVED ALONG THE HUDSON; MOHEGANS LIVED IN CONNECTICUT; MOHICANS WERE CREATED BY THIS AUTHOR | JAMES FENIMORE COOPER |
LAST NAME OF THE ANGELA OF "ANGELA'S ASHES" | MCCOURT |
ONCE A STAFF WROTER FOR THE NEW YORKER, THIS "RABBIT, RUN" AUTHOR STILL CONTRIBUTES REGULARLY | JOHN UPDIKE |
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS LIVING IN VERMONT, HE RETURNED TO RUSSIA AMID FANFARE IN 1994 | ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN |
THIS POET'S 1961 WORK "BABI YAR" HELPED MAKE HIM AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY | YEVTUSHENKO |
1926'S "RED CAVALRY" IS A FAMOUS COLLECTION OF TALES BY THIS "TOWER"ING WRITER | ISAAC BABEL |
THIS RUSSIAN AUTHOR BARELY ESCAPED EXECUTION FOR THE CRIME OF CONSPIRACY | DOSTOEVSKY |
THE FIRST ISSUE OF EBONY MAGAZINE INCLUDED A PROFILE OF THIS AUTHOR OF "NATIVE SON" | RICHARD WRIGHT |
CHIEF CONANCHET IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN "THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH", AN 1829 NOVEL BY THIS AMERICAN AUTHOR | JAMES FENIMORE COOPER |
HIGHLAND RAIDERS KNOWN AS THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST WREAK HAVOC IN "THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE" BY THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
"CTHULHU 2000" IS A 1999 ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES BASED ON THIS AUTHOR'S WORKS | H.P. LOVECRAFT |
THIS AUTHOR OF THE PLAY "THE WIDOW'S TEARS" ALSO DID A HOMER TRANSLATION THAT BLEW JOHN KEATS AWAY | GEORGE CHAPMAN |
THIS "BACKLASH" AUTHOR WON A PULITZER FOR A STORY SHE WROTE WHILE AT THE WALL ST. JOURNAL | SUSAN FALUDI |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE", APPEARS IN KEN BURNS' TV DOCUMENTARY ON THE SUBJECT | SHELBY FOOTE |
AUTHOR OF "INFINITE JEST" | DAVID FOSTER WALLACE |
THIS AUTHOR AND HIS LOOSE LIFESTYLE WERE THE SUBJECT OF TOM WOLFE'S "THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST" | KEN KESEY |
FRUITY FIRST NAME OF ACCLAIMED JAPANESE AUTHOR YOSHIMOTO, WHOSE BOOKS INCLUDE "N.P.", "AMRITA", AND "KITCHEN" | BANANA |
THIS AUTHOR SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE OFFERED THE SAVAGE A THIRD ALTERNATIVE IF HE WERE TO REWRITE "BRAVE NEW WORLD" | ALDUS HUXLEY |
JESUS ENTRUSTED MARY TO THE "BELOVED DISCIPLE", TRADITIONALLY THIS AUTHOR OF THE GOSPEL THAT TELLS THE STORY | JOHN |
THIS PULP AUTHOR WAS PAST 50 WHEN HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL, "THE BIG SLEEP" | RAYMOND CHANDLER |
IN 1998 THIS POET AND AUTHOR MADE HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH THE MOVIE "DOWN IN THE DELTA" | MAYA ANGELOU |
ELLEN DOUGLAS IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS SCOTTISH AUTHOR'S "THE LADY OF THE LAKE" | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
IN 1918 THIS AUTHOR OF "THE FORSYTE SAGA" REFUSED A KNIGHTHOOD | JOHN GALSWORTHY |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE GRASS HARP" WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1924 | TRUMAN CAPOTE |
PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "AFRICAN GAME TRAILS" | TEDDY ROOSEVELT |
PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?" | REAGAN |
PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "MY BOYHOOD IN IOWA" | HOOVER |
PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "AS WE REMEMBER JOE" | JFK |
PRESIDENTAL AUTHOR OF "CRUSADE IN EUROPE" | EISENHOWER |
THE AUTHOR OF "HONDO" AND OTHER WESTERN, HE WAS BORN IN JAMESTOWN, ND | LOUIS L'AMOUR |
IT'S DEFINED AS THE COMBINATION OF 2 SEEMINGLY CONTRADICTORY WORDS, LIKE "DEAFENING SILENCE" | OXYMORON |
WHEN THIS IS USED OBJECTS OR ABSTRACTIONS ARE ENDOWED WITH HUMAN TRAITS, AS IN "THE CLOUDS WEPT" | ANTHROPOMORPHISM |
IT'S A SPECIFIC COMPARISON USING "LIKE" OR "AS": "COOL AS A CUCUMBER", FOR EXAMPLE | SIMILE |
FROM THE GREEK FOR "ORATOR", IT'S THE ART OR STUDY OF USING LANGUAGE EFFECTIVELY | RHETORIC |
THIS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR OF "CONFESSIONS" WAS NICKNAMED "MELANCHOLY JACQUES" | ROSSEAU |
CHARACTER DEPICTED IN EATONTON, GA, THE HOMETOWN OF AUTHOR JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS | BRER RABBIT |
AUTHOR OF "SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON A RED WHEELBARROW GLAZED WITH RAINWATER BESIDE THE WHITE CHICKENS" | WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
WHEN NORMAN MAILER RAN FOR NYC MAYOR IN'69, HIS RUNNING MATE WAS THIS "GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT" AUTHOR | JIMMY BRESLIN |
HENRY JAMES THOUGHT HIS NOVEL RESEMBLED THE WORK OF THIS FRENCH AUTHOR OF "LA COMEDIE HUMAINE" | HONORE DE BALZAC |
BEST-KNOWN FOR THER BOOKS ABOUT CHINA, SHE PUBLISHED HER "AMERICAN TRIPTYCH" AS JOHN SEDGES | PEARL S. BUCK |
THE CENTURY IN WHICH BOCCACCIO WROTE THE "DECAMERON" AND ALL OF THIS OTHER WORKS, TOO | 14TH-C |
OLD JOLYON FORSYTE IS A WEALTHY TEA MERCHANT IN "THE MAN OF PROPERTY", A NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR | JOHN GALSWORTHY |
"THE CINNAMON PEELER" IS A BOOK OF POEMS BY THIS CEYLON-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH PATIENT" | MICHAEL ONDAATJE |
ERNEST FEYDEAU WROTE THE 1858 NOVEL "FANNY" AND THIS SON OF HIS WROTE FRENCH FARCES SUCH AS "A FLEA IN HER EAR" | GEORGES FEYDEAU |
LYNNT THIGPEN WON A TONY IN 1997 FOR ACTING IN "AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE HEIDI CHRONICLES" | WENDY WASSERSTEIN |
"THE HELLBOUND HEART", "RAWHEAD REX", AND "THE BOOKS OF BLOOD" | CLIVE BARKER |
"THE DUNWICH HORROR", "AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS", "THE LURKING FEAR" | H.P. LOVECRAFT |
IN 1971 THIS HERMAN WOUK NOVEL BREEZED UP THE BESTSELLER LISTS | THE WINDS OF WAR |
IN ADDITION TO HOSTING, HE AUTHORED MANY OF HIS THEATRE'S PRESENTATIONS | RAY BRADBURY |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE MAN WITH TWO LEFT FEET" AND "MY MAN JEEVES" WAS A PRISONER OF THE GERMANS DURING WWII | P.G. WODEHOUSE |
A.A. FAIR IS A FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN PEN NAME OF THIS PERRY MASON AUTHOR | ERLE STANLEY GARDNER |
THIS "VANITY FAIR" AUTHOR LIKED TO ASSUME THE NAME GEORGE SAVAGE FITZ-BOODLE, LISTING HIME AS THE EDITOR OF "BARRY LYNDON" | THACKERY |
1998'S "SIMON BIRCH" WAS A LOOSE ADAPTATION OF THIS AUTHOR'S "A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY" | JOHN IRVING |
SHE'S THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF "MOO" AND "A THOUSAND ACRES" | JANE SMILEY |
THIS "L.A. CONFIDENTIAL" AUTHOR'S "MY DARK PLACES" LOOKS INTO THE REAL INVESTIGATION OF HIS MOTHER'S MURDER | JAMES ELLROY |
AN AUTHOR'S LAST ITALIAN HOLIDAY IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS THOMAS MANN NOVELLA | DEATH IN VENICE |
A FRENCH AUTHOR MAY USE A "PSEUDONYM", NOT THIS, MEANING "PEN NAME" | NOM DE PLUME |
GERTRUDE STEIN'S MOST FAMOUS LINE, "A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" COMES FROM THIS WORK | SACRED EMILY |
SARTRE'S "L'IDIOT DE LA FAMILLE" WAS A LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF THIS "MADAME BOVARY" AUTHOR | FLAUBERT |
HIS "L'IDIOT DE LA FAMILLE" WAS A LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF GUSTAV FLAUBERT | SARTRE |
"HOUND DUNNIT" IS A COLLECTION OF DOG MYSTERIES FOR KIDS BY THIS "I,ROBOT" AUTHOR | ASIMOV |
"THE PLAGUE DOGS" IS A BOOK FROM THIS "WATERSHIP DOWN" AUTHOR | RICHARD ADAMS |
THIS AUTHOR OF "NO EXIT" SAID NO TO A NOBEL PRIZE IN 1964 | SARTRE |
A JOCKEY WHO RACED IN THE GRAND NATIONAL, HIS MYSTERIES USUALLY HAVE A HORSE-RACING THEME | DICK FRANCIS |
1996 BESTSELLERS BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "VAMPIRE BREATH" AND "ATTACK OF THE JACK-O-LANTERNS" | R.L. STINE |
AUTHOR OF "SHE'S COME UNDONE" | WALLY LAMB |
AUTHOR OF "ORDINARY PEOPLE" | JUDITH GUEST |
AUTHOR OF "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS" | MAEVE BINCHY |
AUTHOR OF "WINESBURG, OHIO" | SHERWOOD ANDERSON |
AUTHOR OF "LOOKING BACKWARD" | EDWARD BELLAMY |
MEN OF LETTERS: CLIVE STAPLES | C.S. LEWIS |
MEN OF LETTERS: HOWARD PHILLIPS | H.P. LOVECRAFT |
LONGFELLOW'S GLOWING REVIEW OF THIS AUTHOR'S "TWICE-TOLD TALES" LED TO A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP | HAWTHORNE |
HONEST SELF-ANALYSIS DISTINGUISHED THE "CONFESSIONS" OF THIS SWISS-FRENCH AUTHOR WHO DIED IN 1778 | ROUSSEAU |
PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR KNOWN AS "THE HERMIT AUTHOR OF PALO ALTO" | HOOVER |
10 CHARACTERS TELL 10 STORIES EACH OVER 10 DAYS IN HIS "DECAMERON" | GIOVANNI BOCCACIO |
LANGSTON HUGHES TRANSLATED THIS SPANIARD'S "GYPSY BALLADS" OF 1928 INTO ENGLISH | GARCIA LORCA |
"LES CHOUANS" IN 1829 WAS THE FIRST NOVEL THIS "LA COMEDIE HUMAINE" AUTHOR PUBLISHED UNDER HIS OWN NAME | HONORE DE BALZAC |
"A MIND FOR MURDER" AND "A TASTE FOR DEATH" ARE WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR WHOSE FIRST NAMES ARE PHYLLIS DOROTHY | P.D. JAMES |
IN A 1997 PLAY STACIE CHAIKEN STARRED AS CONSTANCE, WIFE OF THIS "EARNEST" AUTHOR | OSCAR WILDE |
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "FLUSH" IS A WHIMSICAL MEMOIR BY THIS "SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE" AUTHOR'S DOG | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
"MAN OF LA MANCHA" BEGINS WITH THIS AUTHOR ARRIVING AT A SPANISH PRISON | CERVANTES |
THE NAME OF A STALLONE TITLE CHARACTER ECHOES THIS 19TH-C. FRENCH AUTHOR OF "A SEASON IN HELL" | ARTHUR RIMBAUD |
AUTHOR WHO WROTE, "WHAT WAS IT THAT SO UNNERVED ME IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE HOUSE OF USHER?" | POE |
THIS "BRAVE NEW WORLD" AUTHOR'S "EYELESS IN GAZA", FEATURES A MAN NAMED BEAVIS, BUT NO BUTT-HEAD | ALDUS HUXLEY |
BORN IN SCOTLAND, THIS AUTHOR SPENT TIME IN THE U.S. AND THE SOUTH SEAS | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
IN 1998 ISRAEL CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND THIS LEON URIS BOOK CELEBRATED ITS 40TH | EXODUS |
IN 1997 THIS AUTHOR RETURNED TO HIS ROOTS WITH "WOBEGON BOY" | GARRISON KEILLOR |
E.L. DOCTOROW'S "THE BOOK OF DANIEL" WAS BASED ON THE ESPIONAGE TRIAL OF THIS COUPLE | ROSENBERGS |
IN 1998 LIAM NEESON PORTRAYED THIS VICTORIAN AUTHOR'S DOWNFALL IN BROADWAY'S "THE JUDAS KISS" | OSCAR WILDE |
HE DEDICATED HIS NOVEL "MYRA BRECKENRIDGE" TO NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD | GORE VIDAL |
IN 1997 HE PUBLISHED "COMANCHE MOON" A PREQUEL TO HIS "LONESOME DOVE" | LARRY MCMURTRY |
NOVELS BY THIS POLITICAL CONSERVATIVE INCLUDE "SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR" AND "MARCO POLO, IF YOU CAN" | WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY |
IN 1997 HE PUT HIS "SPENSER" BOOKS ON HOLD TO INTRODUCE A NEW PROTAGONIST, JESSE STONE IN "NIGHT PASSAGE" | ROBERT PARKER |
IN 1980 THIS AUTHOR HAD HIS AGENT SMILEY, FACE HIS KGB NEMESIS, KARLA | JOHN LE CARRE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE METAMORPHOSIS" FELT LIKE "A MISERABLE SPECIMEN" NEXT TO HIS POWERFUL FATHER | FRANZ KAFKA |
THIS AUTHOR OF "SOUL ON ICE" WAS MINISTER OF INFORMATION FOR THE BLACK PANTHERS IN THE 1960S | ELDRIDGE CLEAVER |
AFTER BEING HURT WHILE HORSE RACING, THIS AUTHOR'S JOCKEY SID HALLEY BECOMES A DETECTIVE | DICK FRANCIS |
IN 1998 JILL PATON WALSH FINISHED THIS LATE AUTHOR'S 12 LORD PETER WIMSEY NOVEL | DOROTHY SAYERS |
THIS AUTHOR OF MEDICAL THRILLERS LIKE "TERMINAL" AND "TOXIN" IS A GRADUATE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | ROBIN COOK |
THIS "KISS THE GIRLS" AUTHOR ALSO WROTE THE JINGLE "I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP, I'M A TOYS 'R' US KID" | JAMES PATTERSON |
STEPHEN KING PUBLISHED THE STORIES "RAGE", "THE LONG WALK", AND "THE RUNNING MAN" UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM | RICHARD BACHMAN |
STEPHEN KING'S 1981 OVERVIEW OF THE HORROR GENRE SHARES ITS NAME WITH THIS SAINT-SAENS "DANCE" | MACABRE |
IN THE 1980'S, STEPHEN KING SAID, "I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF HORROR, AND ITS NAME IS..." THIS AUTHOR | CLIVE BARKER |
HE WORKED ON A RANCH IN THE 1880S BEFORE WRITING SHORT STORIES LIKE "THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF" | O. HENRY |
THIS POET WAS CHILE'S AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE WHEN HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1971 | PABLO NERUDA |
"THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES" IS A CLASSIC WORK ON MYTHOLOGY BY THIS AUTHOR | JOSEPH CAMPBELL |
IN 1997 THE WORLD SAID SAYONARA TO THIS AUTHOR OF "SAYONARA" | JAMES MICHENER |
THIS "STUDY IN SCARLET" AUTHOR BEGAN WRITING WHILE WAITING FOR PATIENTS WHO NEVER CAME | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
CARLOS FUENTES, AUTHOR OF "THE OLD GRINGO", IS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S LEADING NOVELISTS | MEXICO |
LITERARY SELF-PORTRAIT: SAL PARADISE | JACK KEROUAC |
LITERARY SELF-PORTRAIT: ESTHER GREENWOOD | SYLVIA PLATH |
THIS PROLIFIC AUTHOR'S "FOUNDATION TRILOGY" IS ONE OF THE BEST-LOVED WORKS OF SCIENCE FICTION | ASIMOV |
THIS AUTHOR OF "BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL" IS OFTEN WRONGLY REPRESENTED AS SYMPATHETIC TO NAZI IDEAS | NIETZSCHE |
IT'S THOUGHT THAT THIS "GIFT OF THE MAGI" AUTHOR PARTLY TOOK HIS PEN NAME FROM A PRISON GUARD | O. HENRY |
OF THIS AUTHOR OF "THE NECKLACE", FLAUBERT SAID, "HE'S MY DISCIPLE AND I LOVE HIM LIKE A SON" | GUY DE MAUPASSANT |
FRENCH AUTHOR OF 1795'S "PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM"...OUCH! | MARQUIS DE SADE |
A PRIEST CONFRONTED THIS PROPHET AND AUTHOR OF LAMENTATIONS WITH A LETTER THAT ACCUSED HIM OF MADNESS | JEREMIAH |
AUTHOR ERICH SEGAL SAYS OLIVER BARRETT IV IN THIS 1970 NOVEL WAS PARTLY BASED ON AL GORE | LOVE STORY |
HE DISCUSSED ALI V. FOREMAN IN HIS BOOK, "THE FIGHT", AND IN THE 1996 FILM, "WHEN WE WERE KINGS" | NORMAN MAILER |
IN "STEAMBATH" THIS AUTHOR MADE GOD A STEAM ROOM ATTENDANT | BRUCE J. FRIEDMAN |
IN 1981 JAILED WRITER JACK HENRY ABBOTT WAS SPRUNG WITH THE HELP OF THIS "EXECUTIONER'S SONG" AUTHOR | NORMAN MAILER |
"THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET" IS A COLLECTION OF THIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S ESSAYS | SINCLAIR LEWIS |
THIS AUTHOR OF THE "GUYS AND DOLLS" STORIES REALLY WAS FROM MANHATTAN... MANHATTAN, KANSAS | DAMON RUNYON |
"ALIAS GRACE" IS THE LATEST BESTSELLER FROM THIS CANADIAN AUTHOR OF THE "HANDMAID'S TALE" | MARGARET ATWOOD |
AUTHOR OF THE UNCLE REMUS STORIES | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS |
THIS "RISING SUN" AUTHOR TOOK TO THE SKIES WITH "AIRFRAME", A SUSPENSE NOVEL | MICHAEL CRICHTON |
"CAESAR", PUBLISHED IN 1997, IS THE FIFTH VOLUME IN THIS AUSSIE AUTHOR'S MASTERS OF ROME SERIES | COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH |
"THE THIRD TWIN" IS A 1996 THRILLER BY THIS "EYE OF THE NEEDLE" AUTHOR | KEN FOLLETT |
IN THIS AUTHOR'S "DEADLOCK", V.I. WARSHAWSKI INVESTIGATES THE DEATH OF HER COUSIN, A FORMER HOCKEY STAR | SARA PARETSKY |
AS A WAR CORRESPONDANT, THIS TARZAN CREATOR WITNESSED THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS |
AUTHOR OF THE "GOOSEBUMPS" SERIES | R.L. STINE |
SHE FED US "DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT" IN 1982 AND GAVE US "BREATHING LESSONS" IN 1988 | ANNE TYLER |
THIS FLORENTINE AUTHOR OF "IL PRINCIPE" ALSO WROTE A HISTORY OF FLORENCE | MACHIAVELLI |
THIS RUSSIAN LITERARY PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 181 AND NAMED FOR THE AUTHOR OF "EUGENE ONEGIN" | PUSHKIN PRIZE |
A JEWISH TOAST TO LIFE, OR TO THE HEALTH OF AUTHOR POTOK | L'CHAIM |
ENID BAGNOLD WROTE THIS CLASSIC TALE OF A YOUNG EQUESTRIAN AND THE HORSE SHE WINS IN A RAFFLE | NATIONAL VELVET |
1990 BESTSELLERS INCLUDED SIDNEY SHELDON'S "MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT" AND THIS AUTHOR'S "FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT" | STEPHEN KING |
IN 1997 THIS AUTHOR OF "WATCHERS" AND "INTENSITY" PUBLISHED A NEW THRILLER, "SOLE SURVIVOR" | DEAN KOONTZ |
FROM 1903 TO 1905, AMERICAN AUTHOR WINSTON CHURCHILL SERVED IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THIS "GRANITE" STATE | NEW HAMPSHIRE |
J.R.R. TOLKIEN CREATED MIDDLE EARTH; THIS AUTHOR CREATED MIDDLEMARCH | GEORGE ELIOT |
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS 1996 COMIC NOVEL WHOSE TITLE MIGHT REFER TO ITS VAST LENGTH | INFINITE JEST |
AS A LAY PREACHER FOR THE NONCONFORMISTS, THIS "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" AUTHOR DELIVERED SERMONS | JOHN BUNYAN |
AN AUTO ACCIDENT IN JANUARY, 1960 CUT SHORT THE LIFE OF THIS FRENCH AUTHOR OF "THE STRANGER" | CAMUS |
THE LAST NAME OF "ISLAND IN THE SUN" AUTHOR ALEC AND "THE LOVED ONE" AUTHOR EVELYN | WAUGH |
THE WREN'S NEST, THIS UNCLE REMUS AUTHOR'S HOME, WAS NAMED FOR A WREN FOUND NESTING IN HIS MAILBOX | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS |
IN HIS REVISON OF "THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE", E.B. WHITE RECALLED THE CAREFULLY EDGED MOUSTACHE OF THIS CO-AUTHOR | WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. |
HIS GRANDFATHER, THOMAS GORE WAS A SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA | GORE VIDAL |
ON THE 67TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, A BRONZE BUST OF THIS AUTHOR WAS UNVEILED NEAR SUN VALLEY, IDAHO | HEMINGWAY |
HE WROTE HIS 1982 NOVEL "THE RUNNING MAN" UNDER THE PSEUDONYM RICHARD BACHMAN | STEPHEN KING |
THE SUCCESS OF "THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD" ALLOWED HIM TO QUIT THE FOREIGN OFFICE TO WRITE FULL TIME | JOHN LE CARRE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES" WROTE MYSTERY NOVELS UNDER THE PEN NAME ALAN PAYNE | JOHN JAKES |
"A ROSE FOR EMILY" IS A WELL-KNOWN SHORT STORY BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE SOUND AND THE FURY" | FAULKNER |
IN 1996 THIS "EXORCIST" AUTHOR PUBLISHED "DEMONS FIVE, EXORCISTS NOTHING: A FABLE" | WILLIAM PETER BLATTY |
IN 1990'S "DARKNESS VISIBLE", THIS "SOPHIE'S CHOICE" AUTHOR WROTE OF HIS STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION | WILLIAM STYRON |
IN 1922 THIS NOVELIST SAID OF EZRA POUND, "HE'S TEACHING ME TO WRITE, AND I'M TEACHING HIM TO BOX" | HEMINGWAY |
V.C. ANDREWS CAREER AS AN AUTHOR TOOK OFF WITH THIS 1979 NOVEL | FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC |
DANISH WRITER PETER HOEG HAD A BESTSELLER ABOUT HER "SENSE OF SNOW" | SMILLA |
THE BRITISH BORN AND BRED EVELYN WAUGH SET THIS SATIRICAL 1948 NOVEL IN CALIFORNIA | THE LOVED ONE |
ARKADY RENKO, A MOSCOW INVESTIGATOR IN THIS AUTHOR'S "GORKY PARK" BECOMES A SEAMAN IN "POLAR STAR" | MARTIN CRUZ SMITH |
"TREASURE" AND "RAISE THE TITANIC" BY THIS AUTHOR FEATURE SALVAGE EXPERT DIRK PITT | CLIVE CUSSLER |
THIS AUTHOR'S "PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE" AND "BORDER MUSIC" JOINED HIS BOOK ABOUT BRIDGES ON THE 1995 BESTSELLER LIST | ROBERT JAMES WALLER |
THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR OF "LES FLEURS DU MAL" TRANSLATED POE'S TALES INTO FRENCH | CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |
IN 1996 THIS AUTHOR OF "TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY" SPUN A NEW STORY, "THE TAILOR OF PANAMA" | JOHN LE CARRE |
SHORT STORY WRITER HECTOR HUGH MUNRO TOOK THIS PSEUDONYM FORM OMAR KHAYYAM'S "RUBAIYAT" | SAKI |
MARLOW, AN ADVENTURER, APPEARS IN SEVERAL WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR, INCLUDING "LORD JIM" | JOSEPH CONRAD |
BECAUSE OF HIS DEIST BELIEFS, THIS "AGE OF REASON" AUTHOR DIED A SOCIAL OUTCAST IN NYC IN 1809 | THOMAS PAINE |
ACCORDING TO THE TITLE OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S FIRST BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, THIS KIND OF "MAN IS HARD TO FIND" | A GOOD MAN |
THIS ENGLISH POET'S "ODE ON INDOLENCE" WASN'T PUBLISHED UNTIL AFTER HIS DEATH | KEATS |
SHE PUBLISHED "EXIT TO EDEN" UNDER THE PEN NAME ANNE RAMPLING | ANNE RICE |
HE FOLLOWED HIS 1850 SEA TALE, "WHITE JACKET" WITH ANOTHER SEA TALE ABOUT A WHITE OBJECT | MELVILLE |
"THE BISHOP'S BOYS", ABOUT THIS PAIR, IS BY TOM CROUCH, A SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM CURATOR | WRIGHT BROTHERS |
THIS MASTER OF THE ESPIONAGE THRILLER HAS WRITTEN 3 BOOKS ABOUT TOP ASSASSIN JASON BOURNE | ROBERT LUDLUM |
SHE GAVE HER SHARE OF THE FILM RIGHTS TO "WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION" TO HER DAUGHTER ROSALIND | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
HE BASED THE TITLE CHARACTER OF HIS 1914 NOVEL "PENROD" IN PART ON HIS NEPHEWS | BOOTH TARKINGTON |
A ROYAL HORSE GUARD DURING WWII, HE "REVISITED" THE WAR IN HIS "SWORD OF HONOUR" TRILOGY | EVELYN WAUGH |
RUDYARD KIPLING WROTE "THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY" AND HE CREATED HOLLY GOLIGHTLY | TRUMAN CAPOTE |
THIS JANE SMILEY NOVEL SET AT AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SHARES ITS TITLE WITH A COW SOUND | MOO |
"WE WERE THE MULVANEYS" IS ONE OF THIS PRINCETON PROFESSOR'S MORE THAN 25 NOVELS SINCE 1964 | JOYCE CAROL OATES |
THIS "TAO TE CHING" AUTHOR ATTRACTED MANY ADMIRERS, INCLUDING A YOUNG CONFUCIUS | LAO-TZU |
THIS AUTHOR'S "THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING" HAS BEEN CALLED THE PERFECT SHORT STORY | RUDYARD KIPLING |
THIS "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS" AUTHOR ONCE RAN A SAAB DEALERSHIP | KURT VONNEGUT, JR |
HIS TRAVELS TO EUROPE ABOARD THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY WERE DOCUMENTED IN "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD" | TWAIN |
IN 1928 ELIE WIESEL WAS BORN IN SIGHET, A TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGE IN THIS COUNTRY | ROMANIA |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET" WAS THE OLDER BROTHER OF ZOOLOGIST & WRITER GERALD DURRELL | LAWRENCE DURRELL |
LIVING IN SOUTH AMERICA, JOSEF MENGELE CLONES 94 POTENTIAL HITLERS IN THIS IRA LEVIN NOVEL | THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL |
PUBLISHED IN 1915, "THE GENIUS" IS A SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "SISTER CARRIE" | THEODORE DREISER |
"THE MIRROR CRACK'D" IS ONE OF SEVERAL OF HER NOVELS TO FEATURE MISS JANE MARPLE | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
THIS "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS" AUTHOR HAD A CHRISTMAS 1996 BESTSELLER WITH "THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT" | MAEVE BINCHY |
THIS RADIO HOST AND AUTHOR OF "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?" EARNED HER DOCTORATE DEGREE IN PHYSIOLOGY | DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER |
THE UNIVERISTY OF THE ARTS IN PHILADELPHIA IS HOME TO THIS AUTHOR OF "SEXUAL PERSONAE" | CAMILLE PAGLIA |
UNDINE SPRAGG IS THE HEROINE OF "THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" | EDITH WHARTON |
NOT TO "J'ACCUSE" ALFRED BRUNEAU, BUT HE GOT OPERA STORIES LIKE "LE REVE" FROM THIS AUTHOR FRIEND | EMILE ZOLA |
THIS SCANDAL THAT STRUCK THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION INSPIRED UPTON SINCLAIR'S NOVEL "OIL!" | TEAPOT DOME |
THE FIRST LINE OF A JANE AUSTEN NOVEL TELLS US THIS HEROINE IS "HANDSOME, CLEVER, AND RICH" | EMMA |
FIRST INITIAL SHARED BY AUTHOR RIDER HAGGARD AND GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF | H |
HE BEGAN WRITING THE "AENEID" AROUND 29 B.C., AND IT WAS STILL UNFINISHED AT HIS DEATH IN 19 B.C. | VIRGIL |
HIS "VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES" INCLUDES ONE "FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON" | JULES VERNE |
THIS CREATOR OF TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN IS KNOWN AS THE JEWISH MARK TWAIN | SHOLOM ALEICHEM |
1943'S "MAGISTER LUDI", OR "THE GLASS BEAD GAME", WAS THE LAST NOVEL BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | HERMAN HESSE |
"THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY" | CHAUCER |
ITALY'S "POET OF THE DAMNED" | DANTE ALIGHIERI |
"THE CHRONICLER OF MAIN STREET" | SINCLAIR LEWIS |
"THE PILGRIM FROM HANNIBAL" | MARK TWAIN |
THIS "ANTIGONE" AUTHOR STARRED IN HIS OWN PLAY "NAUSIKAA" BUT LATER GAVE UP ACTING | SOPHOCLES |
IN 1970 THIS PEDIATRICIAN AUTHORED "A TEENAGER'S GUIDE TO LIFE AND LOVE" | DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK |
TARZANA, CALIFORNIA IS NAMED FOR HIS MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS |
HIS 1996 BOOK "GOLF DREAMS: WRITINGS ON GOLF", INCLUDES EXCERPTS FROM HIS "RABBIT" NOVELS | JOHN UPDIKE |
EVAN HUNTER WRITES HIS "87TH PRECINCT" AND "MATTHEW HOPE" NOVELS UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM | ED MCBAIN |
THIS IDIOT OF "THE IDIOT" IS THIS RUSSIAN AUTHOR'S ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY A TRULY GOOD MAN | DOSTOEVSKY |
IN 1982, A BUST OF THIS AUTHOR WAS UNVEILED IN DUBLIN TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH | JAMES JOYCE |
ONE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAM'S LAST PLAYS, "CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL", WAS ABOUT THIS JAZZ AGE AUTHOR & HIS WIFE | FITZGERALD |
"ANY WOMAN'S BLUES" WAS A 1990 NOVEL BY THIS "FEAR OF FLYING" AUTHOR | ERICA JONG |
"TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS" WAS ONE OF THIS WESTERN AUTHOR'S SACKETT SAGAS | LOUIS L'AMOUR |
HIS 1904 HORROR NOVEL "THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS" IS MUCH LESS FAMOUS THAN HIS "DRACULA" | BRAM STOKER |
AFTER MOVING TO EUROPE, THIS NEW YORKER WROTE HIS 1890 NOVEL "THE TRAGIC MUSE" ABOUT THE ART WORLD OF EUROPE | HENRY JAMES |
SINCLAIR LEWIS COULD HAVE CALLED THIS 1925 NOVEL "MARTIN"; THAT'S THE TITLE PHYSICIAN'S FIRST NAME | ARROWSMITH |
THOUGH WRITTEN IN 1906, HER STORY OF "THE SLY OLD CAT" WASN'T PUBLISHED UNTIL 1971 | BEATRIX POTTER |
THIS AUTHOR FAMOUS FOR HER MARY POPPINS BOOKS PASSED AWAY IN 1996 | P.L. TRAVERS |
WHILE ABELARD WAS WOOING HELOISE IN EUROPE, THIS RUBAIYAT AUTHOR WAS WRITING IN THE MIDEAST | OMAR KHAYYAM |
THIS AUTHOR'S "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER" IS SET ON AN AFRICAN SAFARI | HEMINGWAY |
ARTHUR C. CLARKE WROTE THIS 1968 SCI-FI NOVEL IN COLLABORATION WITH DIRECTOR STANLY KUBRICK | 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY |
ARTHUR C. CLARKE WROTE "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY" IN 1968 IN COLLABORATION WITH THIS DIRECTOR | STANLEY KUBRICK |
LT. JOE LEAPHORN AND NAVAJO POLICEMAN JIM CHEE RETURN IN THIS AUTHOR'S 1996 MYSTERY "THE FALLEN MAN" | TONY HILLERMAN |
LIKE HIS FATHER'S "THE KILLER ANGELS", JEFF SHAARA'S "GODS AND GENERALS" IS SET DURING THIS WAR | AMERICAN CIVIL WAR |
"THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" AUTHOR THOMAS HARRIS WROTE THIS NOVEL ABOUT A PLOT TO BLOW UP THE SUPER BOWL | BLACK SUNDAY |
AUTHOR OF "THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" | THOMAS HARRIS |
1996'S "FALLING UP" IS THE FIRST NEW VERSE COLLECTION IN 15 YEARS BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE GIVING TREE" | SHEL SILVERSTEIN |
AUTHOR OF "THE GIVING TREE" | SHEL SILVERSTEIN |
TOLSTOY WROTE "WAR AND PEACE"; HERMAN WOUK WROTE "WAR AND ..." THIS | REMEMBRANCE |
THE ELEGANT ST. GREGORY IS THE SETTING FOR THIS 1965 ARTHUR HAILEY BESTSELLER | HOTEL |
USING THEIR FIRST NAMES, IT'S THE PEN NAME OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM WHO WROTE "DECEPTIONS" AND "POT OF GOLD" | JUDITH MICHAEL |
HER RECENTLY DISCOVERED WORK "LOST LAYSEN" WAS PUBLISHED IN 1996, THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF "GONE WITH THE WIND" | MARGARET MITCHELL |
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BASED HIS VERSE PLAY "J.B" ON THIS BOOK OF THE BIBLE | JOB |
BRITISH BARRISTER WHO BROUGHT US RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY | JOHN MORTIMER |
EDDIE RICKENBACKER SCATTERED THIS "GUYS & DOLLS" AUTHOR'S ASHES OVER BROADWAY | DAMON RUNYON |
THE HERO OF THIS PRIME MINISTER'S 1846 NOVEL "CONINGSBY", IS THE ORPHANED GRANDSON OF A LORD | BENJAMIN DISRAELI |
TOLSTOY FOUGHT IN THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL DURING THIS WAR, WHICH INSPIRED HIS "SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES" | CRIMEAN WAR |
IN 1930, 2 YEARS AFTER DIVORCING ARCHIBALD CHRISTIE, SHE MARRIED ARCHAEOLOGIST MAX MALLOWAN | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "SHE" WAS AN ADVISOR TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ON AGRICULTURE | H. RIDER HAGGARD |
NIGERIAN AUTHOR KEN SARO-WIWA, WHO PROTESTED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE BY THIS INDUSTRY, WAS HANGED IN 1995 | OIL INDUSTRY |
THIS "THE CRADLE WILL FALL" AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK WAS A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON | MARY HIGGINS CLARK |
NEWSWEEK'S JOE KLEIN TURNED OUT TO BE THE "ANONYMOUS" AUTHOR OF THIS 1996 "NOVEL OF POLITICS" | PRIMARY COLORS |
THIS POET SAID OF EZRA POUND, "mr pound is humane, but not human" | ee cummings |
"CLOWNS' HOUSES" IS A BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS SISTER OF OSBERT & SACHEVERELL SITWELL | EDITH SITWELL |
THIS TEXAN SET HER NOVELLA "NOON WINE" ON A TEXAS DAIRY FARM, NOT ON A "SHIP OF FOOLS" | KATHERINE ANNE PORTER |
SHE WAS FAMOUS FOR HER MYSTERY NOVELS FEATURING LORD PETER WIMSEY | DOROTHY SAYERS |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE GROUP" BASED THE HEROINE OF HER BOOK "THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS" ON HERSELF | MARY MCCARTHY |
HE DEDICATED HIS 1888 BOOK "PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS" "TO THE WITTIEST WOMAN IN INDIA" | KIPLING |
MAIDEN NAME OF "FRANKENSTEIN" AUTHOR MARY, OR "A MOTHER AND 2 DAUGHTERS" AUTHOR GAIL | GODWIN |
FORTUNATO IS THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIM IN THIS AUTHOR'S FAMOUS HORROR STORY "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO" | POE |
LEN CARIOU, BROADWAY'S ORIGINAL SWEENEY TODD, PLAYS THIS AUTHOR IN THE ONE-MAN SHOW "PAPA" | HEMINGWAY |
A CATHEDRAL IN SALERNO, ITALY IS SAID TO CONTAIN THE CRYPT OF THIS SAINT AND AUTHOR OF THE 1ST GOSPEL | MATTHEW |
IN HIS 1ST BOOK, "THE BOO", PAT CONROY WROTE ABOUT THIS SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY, HIS ALMA MATER | THE CITADEL |
"LETTING GO" WAS THE 1ST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "GOODBYE, COLUMBUS" | PHILIP ROTH |
"THE GREAT SANTINI" WAS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS "PRINCE OF TIDES" AUTHOR | PAT CONROY |
"BUDDENBROOKS" WAS THE FIRST IMPORTANT NOVEL BY THIS 20TH-C. GERMAN AUTHOR | THOMAS MANN |
OFTEN CONFUSED WITH THIS AUTHOR, SINCLAIR LEWIS WORKED AS A JANITOR AT HIS UTOPIAN COLONY HELICON HALL | UPTON SINCLAIR |
ZBIGNIEW HERBERT WRITES POEMS, PLAYS, AND ESSAYS IN THIS, HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE | POLISH |
ABEL'S DAUGHTER BECOMES VP OF THE UNITED STATES IN "THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER", THIS EX-MP'S SEQUEL TO "KANE AND ABEL" | JEFFREY ARCHER |
THIS AUTHOR DREW ON HIS EXPERIENCES AS CAPTAIN OF A WEST AFRICAN RIVER STEAMER FOR "HEART OF DARKNESS" | JOSEPH CONRAD |
"BATTER MY HEART" IS ONE OF THE BEST'KNOWN "HOLY SONNETS" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "DEATH, BE NOT PROUD" | JOHN DONNE |
HE AND CO-AUTHOR RICHARD SUSKIND SERVED BRIEF PRISON TERMS FOR THEIR FORGED BIO OF HOWARD HUGHES | CLIFFORD IRVING |
THIS NOVELIST'S MOTHER, FRANCIS TROLLOPE, WROTE A DEROGATORY BOOK ABOUT AMERICAN MANNERS IN 1832 | ANTHONY TROLLOPE |
HIS 1885 WORK "KING SOLOMON'S MINES" WAS SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS AT ZIMBABWE | H. RIDER HAGGARD |
W.M. THACKERAY QUARRELED WITH THIS AUTHOR IN THE SO-CALLED GARRICK CLUB AFFAIR | DICKENS |
"A TANGLED SKEIN" WAS THIS AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL TITLE FOR "A STUDY IN SCARLET" | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
WILLA CATHER'S "DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP" IS SET IN THIS STATE | NEW MEXICO |
NORDHOFF AND HALL'S 1934 "MEN AGAINST THE SEA", WAS A SEQUEL TO THIS | MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY |
THIS CHARACTER FROM AN 1865 WORK COULD VANISH AT WILL, WITH ITS GRIN THE LAST PART TO DISAPPEAR | CHESHIRE CAT |
THIS AUTHOR BASED THE CHARACTER PHILBOYD STUDGE IN "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS" ON HIMSELF | KURT VONNEGUT, JR |
AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH IN 1974, SHE WAS WRITING A SEQUEL TO "EVERY NIGHT, JOSEPHINE" | JACQUELINE SUSANN |
THE RISE TO POWER OF THE RUTHLESS JULIAN SOREL IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS COLORFUL STENDHAL BOOK | THE RED AND THE BLACK |
O YES, THE TITLE OF THIS 1913 WILLA CATHER NOVEL IS TAKEN FROM A POEM BY WALT WHITMAN | O PIONEERS |
"THE PYGMIES" AND "THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS" ARE 2 OF HIS "TANGLEWOOD TALES" | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE |
HE SAID HIS 1994 NOVEL "A SON OF THE CIRCUS" "ISN'T ABOUT INDIA. I DON'T KNOW INDIA. I WAS THERE ONLY ONCE" | JOHN IRVING |
SHE SAYS HER GOTHIC-STYLE NOVELS, LIKE "BELLEFLEUR", ARE "NOT EXACTLY PARODIES" BUT "PARODISTIC" | JOYCE CAROL OATES |
A DEGENERATE BOOTLEGGER NAMED POPEYE ABDUCTS COLLEGE COED TEMPLE DRAKE IN HIS 1931 NOVEL "SANCTUARY" | FAULKNER |
IT'S THE CITY IN ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S "TALES OF THE CITY" | SAN FRANCISCO |
ALLAN DRURY WON A 1960 PULITZER PRIZE FOR THIS NOVEL ABOUT THE SEAMY UNDERSIDE OF CONGRESS | ADVISE AND CONSENT |
SALLY BOWLES, A MINIMALLY TALENTED NIGHTCLUB SINGER, IS THE HEROINE OF HIS "GOODBYE TO BERLIN STORIES" | CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD |
THIS AUTHOR EXCELLED AS A PHOTOGRAPHER OF CHILDREN AND ALICE LIDDELL WAS ONE OF HIS SUBJECTS | LEWIS CARROLL |
SURELY YOU KNOW THAT "SHIRLEY" WAS A LATER NOVEL BY THIS "JANE EYRE" AUTHOR | CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
"AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN" IS A 1939 NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "BRAVE NEW WORLD" | ALDUS HUXLEY |
A COLLECTOR OF HIS NOVELS WOULD OWN COPIES OF "THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN" AND "THE COLLECTOR" | JOHN FOWLES |
SHE WAS ONLY 19 WHEN SHE PUBLISHED HER FIRST NOVEL, "THE OUTSIDERS" IN 1967 | S.E. HINTON |
ELEANOR HODGMAN PORTER IS BEST REMEMBERED FOR HER 1913 NOVEL ABOUT THIS EVER-OPTIMISTIC HEROINE | POLLYANNA |
THIS MISSISSIPPI-BORN AUTHOR RECEIVED A 1973 PULITZER FOR "THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER" | EUDORA WELTY |
THIS AUTHOR OF "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE" COULD CELEBRATE HIS NOVEMBER 11 BIRTHDAY WITH JONATHAN WINTERS | KURT VONNEGUT, JR |
IT'S BELIEVED SHAKESPEARE WROTE PART OF A 1595 PLAY ABOUT HIS "UTOPIA" AUTHOR | ST. THOMAS MORE |
WARREN BEATTY PORTRAYED JOHN REED, AUTHOR OF "TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD" IN THIS 1981 EPIC | REDS |
THEIR 1955 SHOW, "PIPE DREAM", ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF CANNERY ROW, WAS BASED ON THIS AUTHOR'S "SWEET THURSDAY" | STEINBECK |
IN 1660 THIS AUTHOR OF "THE PILGRIM'S PROGESS" WAS ARRESTED FOR PREACHING WITHOUT A LICENSE | JOHN BUNYAN |
MOWGLI'S SONG "AGAINST PEOPLE" APPEARS IN THIS AUTHOR'S "SECOND JUNGLE BOOK" | KIPLING |
FANNY PRICE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER COUSIN EDMUND IN HER "MANSFIELD PARK" | JANE AUSTEN |
PLAYWRIGHT OF "AMERICAN BUFFALO" AND "THE CRYPTOGRAM" | DAVID MAMET |
AUTHOR OF "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" | EMILY BRONTE |
IN 1971 THIS NOVELIST WAS NAMED DAME COMMANDER IN THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
FROM 1846 TO 1849, HE WAS SURVEYOR OF THE PORT OF SALEM, MA | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE |
THIS LAPD OFFICER-TURNED-AUTHOR CAME UP WITH THE CONCEPT FOR "POLICE STORY" | JOSEPH WAMBAUGH |
THIS MILITARY OFFICER AND AUTHOR OF "BEN-HUR" REPRESENTS INDIANA IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL | LEW WALLACE |
SHERWOOD ANDERSON HELPED THIS MISSISSIPPI AUTHOR PUBLISH HIS FIRST NOVEL, "SOLDIER'S PAY" | FAULKNER |
RIP TORN AND MARSHA MASON STARRED IN THIS AUTHOR'S STAGE ADAPTATION OF HIS OWN NOVEL, "THE DEER PARK" | NORMAN MAILER |
THE 16TH EDITION OF BARTLETT'S DEVOTES MORE THAN 5 PAGES TO THIS "FOUR QUARTETS" POET | T.S. ELIOT |
"THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH" WAS THE ONLY BOOK BY THIS AMERICAN HORROR WRITER PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFE | H.P. LOVECRAFT |
THIS AUTHOR'S 1835 STORY, "YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN" IS A TALE OF WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM, MASS. | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE |
THE 1922 PLAY "RAIN" IS A DRAMATIZATION OF "MISS THOMPSON", THIS AUTHOR'S STORY ABOUT SADIE THOMPSON | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
THE 1967 SIDNEY POITIER FILM "TO SIR WITH LOVE", WAS DIRECTED BY THIS "SHOGUN" AUTHOR | JAMES CLAVELL |
IN 1889 THIS "THE LIFE OF REASON" AUTHOR BEGAN TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AT HARVARD | GEORGE SANTAYANA |
THIS "A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE" AUTHOR MARRIED PORDUCER ROBERT BRADFORD IN 1963 | BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD |
THIS INDIANA AUTHOR WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR HIS NOVEL "ALICE ADAMS" | BOOTH TARKINGTON |
ERICA JONG CALLED HER BOOK ABOUT THIS "TROPIC OF CANCER" AUTHOR, "THE DEVIL AT LARGE" | HENRY MILLER |
IN "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN", JOHN GRIMES REPRESENTS THIS AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL | JAMES BALDWIN |
MICKEY SPILLANE INTRODUCED THIS DETECTIVE IN "I, THE JURY" | MIKE HAMMER |
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY IN 1485, THIS AUTHOR'S "LE MORTE D'ARTHUR" WAS WRITTEN MOSTLY IN PRISON | SIR THOMAS MALORY |
THIS AUTHOR PROCLAIMED THE MAOEBA THE OFFICIAL MASCOT OF HIS NOVEL "EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES" | TOM ROBBINS |
THE 1957 PLAY "MISS LONELYHEARTS" IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THIS AUTHOR WHO WROTE THE NOVEL | NATHANIEL WEST |
THIS AUTHOR OF "TAMBURLAINE" HAS BEEN CALLED "A SECOND SHAKESPEARE", BUT SOME THINK HE WAS THE FIRST | CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE |
IN THE 6TH-C. B.C., GREEKS USED HIS "ILIAD" AND "ODYSSEY" AS TEXTBOOKS | HOMER |
BULLFINCH'S "MYTHOLOGY" INCLUDES "THE AGE OF THE FABLE" AND, COVERING KNIGHTS, "THE AGE OF ..." THIS | CHIVALRY |
IN AN ESSAY ALBERT CAMUS COMPARED THE HUMAN CONDITION TO THE MYTH OF THIS ROCK PUSHER | SISYPHUS |
WROTE THE ESSAY "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS" | CAMUS |
BILL MOYERS' CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM WERE PUBLISHED AS "THE POWER OF MYTH" | JOSEPH CAMPBELL |
THIS "I, CLAUDIUS" AUTHOR LATER SET HIS EYE ON "THE GREEK MYTHS" AND "THE HEBREW MYTHS" | ROBERT GRAVES |
FROM 1949-1956 THIS "PRINCESS DAISY" AUTHOR WAS A FASHION EDITOR FOR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING | JUDITH KRANTZ |
"SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR" WAS WRITTEN IN THIS LANGUAGE | ITALIAN |
AUSTIN, TX HAS A MUSEUM DEVOTED TO THIS SHORT-STORY AUTHOR OF "CABBAGES AND KINGS" | O. HENRY |
"THE HUMAN ZERO" IS A COLLECTION OF THIS AUTHOR'S SCI-FI STORIES, AS DELLA STREET COULD TELL YOU | ERLE STANLEY GARDNER |
APPROPRIATELY, THIS SCI-FI AUTHOR CALLED HIS 1984 COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES "POHLSTARS" | FREDERIC POHL |
IN 1977, THIS AUTHOR OF "MY COUSIN RACHEL" PUBLISHED HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY, "MYSELF, WHEN YOUNG" | DAPHNE DU MAURIER |
ISABELLE ADJANI PLAYED THE OBSESSIVE DAUGHTER OF THIS AUTHOR IN "THE STORY OF ADELE H." | VICTOR HUGO |
AN ACTOR AS WELL AS AN AUTHOR, HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF ORGON IN HIS OWN "TARTUFFE" | MOLIERE |
THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS SOMETIMES ABBREVIATED KJV AND SOMETIMES DENOTED BY THESE 2 LETTERS | AV (AUTHORIZED VERSION) |
IN 1976 THIS CANADIAN-BORN AUTHOR OF "HERZOG" WON THE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE | SAUL BELLOW |
A GROUP OF 19TH-C. AUTHORS IS CALLED THE KNICKERBOCKER GROUP AFTER HIS PEN NAME | WASHINGTON IRVING |
POET & EDITOR WILLIAM C. BRYANT IS KNOWN FOR HIS 1870-71 TRANSLATIONS OF THESE 2 HOMERIC WORKS | ILIAD & ODYSSEY |
THE SHORT STORY WRITER SAKI WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN THIS WAR IN 1916 | WWI |
WILKIE COLLINS WROTE A NOVEL ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS "WOMAN IN ..." THIS COLOR WHO LIVED IN AN ASYLUM | WHITE |
OLE E. ROLVAAG WROTE "GIANTS IN THE EARTH" IN THIS LANGUAGE; IT WAS THEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH | NORWEGIAN |
COMPLETES THE TITLE OF OLIVE ANN BURNS' NOVEL "COLD SASSY..." | TREE |
THIS AUTHOR OF "OUR MAN IN HAVANA" PUBLISHED A VOLUME OF HIS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN 1990 | GRAHAM GREENE |
JOEL ENGLE'S BOOK ABOUT HIM IS SUBTITLED "THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF LIFE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE" | ROD SERLING |
HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BEFORE HE WROTE "NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS" | JEFFREY ARCHER |
MANUEL PUIG'S NOVEL ABOUT THE KISS OF THIS WOMAN WAS BANNED IN HIS NATIVE ARGENTINA | THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN |
THE JERZY KOZINSKI NOVEL THAT OPENS WITH "IT WAS SUNDAY. CHANCE WAS IN THE GARDEN" | BEING THERE |
MARIO PUZO'S SEQUEL TO "THE GODFATHER" | THE SICILIAN |
TO ESCAPE DEBTOR'S PRISON, JOHN CLELAND WROTE THIS BAWDY BOOK ABOUT A "WOMAN OF PLEASURE" IN 1748 | FANNY HILL |
THOUGH HIS "CELL 2455, DEATH ROW" BECAME A BEST SELLER, IT DIDN'T SAVE HIM FROM EXECUTION | CARYL CHESSMAN |
"PINNOCHIO" AUTHOR CARLO LORENZINI USED THIS LAST NAME, TAKEN FROM HIS FAMILY VILLAGE | COLLODI |
PUBLISHED BY THE NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS IN 1984, IT BECAME A BESTSELLER AND A 1990 FILM | THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER |
AUTHOR OF 1987'S "THE BLACK DAHLIA", HE CALLS HIMSELF, "THE DEMON DOG OF AMERICAN LITERATURE" | JAMES ELLROY |
AN AUTHORITY ON CARD AND BOARD GAMES, HIS LAST NAME COMPLETES THE EXPRESSION "ACCORDING TO..." | HOYLE |
"THE CANCER WARD", IN HIS NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, IS THOUGHT TO BE AN ALLEGORY OF THE SOVIET STATE | SOLZHENITSYN |
SOME THINK HIS WORKS, INCLUDING "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT", INSPIRED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | ROUSSEAU |
IF YOU'VE READ HIS "A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU", THEN YOU KNOW ABOUT THE MADELIEINES | PROUST |
AMBROSE BIERCE WROTE "THE CYNIC'S WORD BOOK" WHICH WAS LATER PUBLISHED UNDER THIS TITLE | DEVIL'S DICTIONARY |
MAUDE ADAMS WAS KNOWN FOR STARRING IN THIS AUTHOR'S PLAYS, INCLUDING "THE LITTLE MINISTER" AND "PETER PAN" | JAMES BARRIE |
KING LOUIS XIV PROVIDED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE MISANTHROPE" WITH A PERMANENT THEATRE NEAR THE LOUVRE | MOLIERE |
"AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN" BY THIS AUTHOR DESCRIBES MORALS AND MURDERS IN L.A.'S HIGH SOCIETY | DOMINICK DUNNE |
SHE WROTE "THE MAKING OF AMERICANS" DURING THE 43 YEARS SHE LIVED IN PARIS | GERTRUDE STEIN |
SHE'S THE AUTHOR OF THE MYSTICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK "CROSS CREEK" | MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS |
EUGENE O'NEILL WORK BASED ON THE "ORESTEIA" BY AESCHULUS | MOURNING BECOMES ELEKTRA |
MAUDE HOWE ELLIOTT WON A PULITZER PRIZE FOR CO-AUTHORING A BOOK ABOUT HIS POET, HER MOTHER | SARAH BERNHARDT |
THIS AUTHOR, NOT GARY LARSON, IS THE SUBJECT OF "THE FAR SIDE OF PARADISE" | FITZGERALD |
THE AUTHOR OF "GREEN MANSIONS" | WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON |
FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS, HE'S THE AUTHOR OF A WIDELY USED COLLEGE TEXTBOOK | PAUL SAMUELSON |
AUTHOR OF THE "SUMMA THEOLOGICA", HE HELD ONE OF THE CHAIRES OF THEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS | ST. THOMAS AQUINAS |
IN THE ERA OF COLONIALISM, THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE, "TAKE UP THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" | KIPLING |
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, THIS POEM ABOUT A BRAVE HERO IS BY AUTHOR UNKNOWN | BEOWULF |
"THE FIFTH CHILD" IS A RECENT WORK BY THIS ENGLISH AUTHOR OF "THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK" | DORIS LESSING |
THERE WERE REQUIEMS FOR THIS AUTHOR OF "REQUIEM FOR A NUN" AFTER HE DIED IN 1962 | FAULKNER |
THIS AUTHOR'S HOME WHERE HE WROTE "TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT" IS NOW A NATIONAL LANDMARK IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA | HEMINGWAY |
OSCAR WILDE'S ONLY NOVEL | THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY |
ROBERT PARKER'S "POODLE SPRINGS" IS BASED ON THIS AUTHOR'S UNFINISHED PHILIP MARLOWE NOVEL | RAYMOND CHANDLER |
THE FIRST VERSE OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS ATTRIBUTES IT AUTHORSHIP TO THIS MAN | SOLOMON |
SINGULAR PSEUDONYM OF RODNEY WHITAKER, WHO AUTHORED 2 "SANCTION" BOOKS, "LOO" AND "EIGER" | TREVANIAN |
THIS "ENDGAME" AUTHOR WAS A FRIEND OF JAMES JOYCE BUT, CONTRARY TO RUMOR, WAS NOT HIS SECRETARY | SAMUEL BECKETT |
HIS BOOK, SIMPLY TITLED "A BOOK", IS DEDICATED TO "LUCIE AND DESI IV" | DESI ARNAZ |
THE MARX BROTHER WHO WROTE "GROUCHO AND ME" | GROUCHO MARX |
THIS TV STAR'S BOOK, "STRAIGHT SHOOTING", ISN'T "UNTOUCHABLE" | ROBERT STACK |
THIS AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL "THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI" IS ALSO CREDITED WITH THE SCREENPLAY | PIERRE BOULLE |
THIS AVANT-GARDE AUTHOR'S "LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES" WAS WRITTEN IN A 3-WEEK PERIOD IN 1929 | JEAN COCTEAU |
THIS AUTHOR OF "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" REFUSED AN OFFER TO BE POET LAUREATE | THOMAS GRAY |
HE'S THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF "IF BEAGLES COULD FLY" | CHARLES SCHULTZ |
THIS AUTHOR OF "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" ADVISED DICKENS TO GIVE "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" A HAPPIER ENDING | EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON |
THE POLISH-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE PAINTED BIRD", SET IN EUROPE, AND "BEING THERE", SET IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | JERZY KOZINSKI |
SIR JOHN BUCHAN WROTE "THE 39 STEPS" BEFORE HE BECAME GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THIS NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY | CANADA |
SIDNEY LANIER'S NOVEL, "TIGER LILIES" WAS BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCES IN THIS 19TH-C. WAR | U.S. CIVIL WAR |
AUTHOR OF "THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD" WHOSE FRIENDS CALLED HIM "GOLDY" | OLIVER GOLDSMITH |
"DAY OF THE LOCUST" AUTHOR WHOSE WIFE EILEEN WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR "MY SISTER EILEEN" | NATHANIEL WEST |
"JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS", A GROUP OF NOVELS BASED ON A BIBLE STORY, IS THIS GERMAN AUTHOR'S LONGEST WORK | THOMAS MANN |
IT'S BELIEVED SANTA'S REINDEER AND SLEIGH WERE 1ST MENTIONED IN THIS AUTHOR'S "KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY" | WASHINGTON IRVING |
THIS CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN WON A PULITZER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR 1953'S "A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX" | BRUCE CATTON |
A WALTHAM, MASS UNIVERSITY IS NAMED FOR THIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AND AUTHOR OF 1914'S "OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY" | LOUIS BRANDEIS |
"THE POWER OF MYTH" IS A BOOK BASED ON HIS CONVERSATIONS ON PBS WITH JOSEPH CAMPBELL | BILL MOYERS |
"THE HUMAN MIND" AND "MAN AGAINST HIMSELF" WERE WRITTEN BY THIS TOPEKA, KANSAS PSYCHIATRIST | KARL MENNINGER |
IN ITALY THIS PIRANDELLO PLAY IS KNOWN AS "SEI PERSONAGGI IN CERCA D'AUTORE" | SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR |
THE 1ST WOMAN TO WIN A PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION WAS THIS AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" IN 1921 | EDITH WHARTON |
SOME OF THE STORIES AND POEMS IN "WE ARE STILL MARRIED" REFLECT ON THIS AUTHOR'S LIFE IN MINNESOTA | GARRISON KEILLOR |
HE WAS GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND AUTHOR OF A SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT A "BAD BOY" | GEORGE PECK |
ANNE LINDBERGH'S MAIDEN NAME | MORROW |
MARY RINEHART'S MAIDEN NAME | ROBERTS |
THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN A SLUM IN ODENSE, DENMARK IN 1805 | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON |
"OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS" WAS THIS AUTHOR'S 1ST PUBLISHED NOVEL | TRUMAN CAPOTE |
AUTHOR WHO WAS BORN IN EDINBURGH IN 1850 AND DIED IN SAMOA IN 1894 | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
HARVARD PROFESSOR WHO'S HOSTED "ETHICS IN AMERICA" ON PBS, OR THE AUTHOR OF "A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE" | ARTHUR MILLER |
"BLOOD WEDDING" AUTHOR FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA WAS EXECUTED BY NATIONALISTS IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1936 | SPAIN |
THIS STATE WAS THE SETTING FOR EDNA FERBER'S NOVEL "ICE PALACE" | ALASKA |
THIS LEGENDARY OUTLAAW IS THE SUBJECT OF LARRY MCMURTRY'S NOVEL "ANYTHING FOR BILLY" | BILLY THE KID |
BOMBAY-BORN AUTHOR WHOSE 1ST NOVEL WAS "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" | KIPLING |
DOMINICK DUNNE SET PART OF HIS NOVEL "PEOPLE LIKE US" IN THE HOME THE GRENVILLES LIVED IN IN THIS BOOK | THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES |
THIS AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, "BETTY ZANE", WAS AN HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT HIS MOTHER'S ANCESTORS | ZANE GREY |
MANET DID ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THIS AUTHOR'S POEM "THE RAVEN" | POE |
1 OF THE 2 NOVELS BY THOMAS WOLFE WITH "HOME" IN THEIR TITLES | LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL & YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN |
IN 1985 LILLIAN HELLMAN RE-ISSUED 5 OF HIS DETECTIVE NOVELS | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
HER BOOK "SURVIVOR" BEGINS WHERE "MOMMIE DEAREST" LEFT OFF | CHRISTINA CRAWFORD |
CREATOR OF "ARCHY AND MEHITABEL", THIS HUMORIST ONCE WAS ASSISTANT EDITOR FOR "THE UNCLE REMUS MAGAZINE" | DON MARQUIS |
AUTHOR OF "FATHERS AND SONS", HE WAS THE FIRST RUSSIAN TO BE WIDELY READ AND ADMIRED IN EUROPE | IVAN TURGENEV |
OUTSOLD ONLY BY THE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE, THIS WOMAN IS THE BEST-SELLING ROMANCE WRITER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | BARBARA CARTLAND |
ENGLISH TALE OF MRS. WICKETT AND HER BOARDER, AN OLD SCHOOLMASTER FROM BROOKFIELD BOYS SCHOOL | GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS |
AT THE END OF THIS STEINBECK NOVEL, DANNY'S FRIENDS BURN HIS HOUSE AS A TRIBUTE TO HIM | TORTILLA FLAT |
"NEW YORKER" HUMORIST ROBERT BEGAT NOVELISIT NATHANIEL, WHO BEGAT "JAWS" AUTHOR PETER | BENCHLEY |
IN "DEVOTION", NANCY COLEMAN, OLIVIA DE HAVILAND, AND IDA LUPINO PLAYED THESE DEVOTED BRITISH SIBLINGS | BRONTE SISTERS |
THOUGH HE NEVER WON A NOBEL PRIZE, "THE LIFE OF..." THIS FRENCHMAN WON A '37 BEST PICTURE OSCAR | EMILE ZOLA |
THE APPROPRIATE GOAL IN THE GAME "AUTHORS" IS TO FORM THESE | BOOKS |
LONG-TIME COMPANION OF DASHIELL HAMMETT, SHE WAS PLAYED IN "JULIA" BY JANE FONDA | LILLIAN HELLMAN |
HE HAD THE YEARS' BESTSELLING NOVEL A RECORD 7 YEARS IN A ROW WITH 7 DIFFERENT TITLES, ENDING IN 2000 | JOHN GRISHAM |
JOHN DRYDEN IN 1683 WAS THE FIRST TO USE THE TERM "BIOGRAPHY"...APPROPRIATELY, WHILE WRITING ABOUT THIS GREEK | PLUTARCH |
THIS PLAY THAT IS QUITE CONCERNED WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WAS, ODDLY ENOUGH, FIRST PERFORMED IN GERMAN IN 1913 | PYGMALION |
THIS AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR HAS SAID, "MAX IS LIKE MY DEMENTED SON AND HE'S TAKING CARE OF HIS FATHER FOR LIFE" | MAURICE SENDAK |
IN 1964, IN A RARE INTERVIEW, SHE SAID, "ALL I WANT TO BE IS THE JANE AUSTEN OF SOUTH ALABAMA..." | HARPER LEE |
THE GRANDSON OF A HUMORIST, THE SON OF A CHILDREN'S AUTHOR, HIS FIRST NOVEL IN 1974 WAS A HUGE BESTSELLER | PETER BENCHLEY |
IN 1956 SHE PUBLISHED "VENICE OBSERVED" AND HER BROTHER KEVIN STARRED IN "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" | MARY MCCARTHY |
"IF I WERE TO DRESS AS A WOMAN, THEY WOULD THINK OF ME AS A WOMAN...WHAT WOULD BECOME OF ME?" IS A LINE FROM THIS 1923 PLAY | SAINT JOAN |
HE PUBLICLY OBJECTED TO THE NAME OF A 2004 DOCUMENTARY FOR INFRINGING ON THE TITLE OF ONE OF HIS BOOKS | RAY BRADBURY |
THE ONLY OSCAR WINNER ALSO TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE, THIS EUROPEAN WON A 1938 OSCAR FOR ADAPTING HIS OWN PLAY | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW |
AFTER WWI HE WROTE, "TO DEVELOP A HORSE-SURGERY...WOULD NECESSITATE A KNOWLEDGE OF HORSE LANGUAGE" | HUGH LOFTING |
FORD MADDOX FORD, IN THE '20S, HADN'T "READ MORE THAN 6 WORDS" BY THIS MAN BEFORE VOWING TO "PULISH EVERYTHING HE SENT ME" | HEMINGWAY |
IN THE 16TH-C. HE WROTE, "WHOEVER WISHES TO FOUND A STATE...MUST START WITH ASSUMING THAT ALL MEN ARE BAD..." | MACHIAVELLI |
"THE MUTE" WAS THE WORKING TITLE OF THIS 1940 NOVEL BY A FEMALE AUTHOR | THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER |
LAWRENCE DURELL SAID THAT IN A 1928 NOVEL THIS MAN USED 4-LETTER WORDS TO CANONIZE & CELEBRATE RAW SENSUALITY | D.H. LAWRENCE |
"THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T" IN 1953 WAS THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM FROM THIS AUTHOR'S WORKS; A SECOND WAS RELEASED IN 2000 | DR. SEUSS |
IN 1900 HE SENT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $2.20 TO COPYWRIGHT HIS "THE NAVY ALPHABET" AND ANOTHR, MORE "WONDERFUL" BOOK | L. FRANK BAUM |
IN 1995 A LIBRARY AT THE GLASCOW VETERINARY SCHOOL WAS NAMED IN HIS HONOR | JAMES HERRIOT |
IN 1745 HE BEQUEATHED HIS ESTATE TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDING OF A HOSPITAL FOR THE MENTALLY ILL IN DUBLIN | JONATHAN SWIFT |
WITH THE SAME INITIALS AS THE AUTHOR, HARRY HALLER IS THE LONE PROTAGONIST OF THIS 1927 GERMAN NOVEL | STEPPENWOLF (HERMAN HESSE) |
AMONG THE POEMS THIS BRITISH NOVELIST WROTE IN THE 1920S WERE "MEN IN NEW MEXICO" AND "AUTUMN AT TAOS" | D.H. LAWRENCE |
HEMINGWAY DESCRIBED THIS WRITER'S 1961 BOOK "OUT OF MY LEAGUE" AS "THE DARK SIDE OF...WALTER MITTY" | GEORGE PLIMPTON |
HE LAUNCHED HIS LECTURING CAREER IN 1866 WITH A TALK LATER TITLED "OUR FELLOW SAVAGES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS" | TWAIN |
HE CLAIMED THAT AS A PINKERTON DETECTIVE, HE HAD WORKED THE FATTY ARBUCKLE AND NICKY ARNSTEIN CASES | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
IN 1996 RAYMOND BENSON TOOK OVER A BOOK SERIES FROM JOHN GARDNER, WHO HAD TAKEN OVER FROM THIS 1ST AUTHOR | IAN FLEMING |
TOURISTS MAY VISIT THE CHAWTON, ENGLAND HOME OF THIS SENSIBLE 19TH-C. NOVELIST, STILL POPULAR TODAY | JANE AUSTEN |
IN 1839, AT AGE 19, HE JOINED THE CREW OF THE FREIGHTER ST. LAWRENCE THAT RAN BETWEEN NYC AND LIVERPOOL | MELVILLE |
THIS COUNTRY'S AUTHORS HAVE WON MORE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZES THAN ANY OTHER, INCLUDING THE U.S. | FRANCE |
IN 1745 HE BEQUEATHED HIS ESTATE TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDING OF A HOSPITAL FOR THE MENTALLY ILL IN DUBLIN | JONATHAN SWIFT |
WITH THE SAME INITIALS AS THE AUTHOR, HARRY HALLER IS THE LONE PROTAGONIST OF THIS 1927 GERMAN NOVEL | STEPPENWOLF (HERMAN HESSE) |
AMONG THE POEMS THIS BRITISH NOVELIST WROTE IN THE 1920S WERE "MEN IN NEW MEXICO" AND "AUTUMN AT TAOS" | D.H. LAWRENCE |
HEMINGWAY DESCRIBED THIS WRITER'S 1961 BOOK "OUT OF MY LEAGUE" AS "THE DARK SIDE OF...WALTER MITTY" | GEORGE PLIMPTON |
HE LAUNCHED HIS LECTURING CAREER IN 1866 WITH A TALK LATER TITLED "OUR FELLOW SAVAGES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS" | TWAIN |
HE CLAIMED THAT AS A PINKERTON DETECTIVE, HE HAD WORKED THE FATTY ARBUCKLE AND NICKY ARNSTEIN CASES | DASHIELL HAMMETT |
IN 1996 RAYMOND BENSON TOOK OVER A BOOK SERIES FROM JOHN GARDNER, WHO HAD TAKEN OVER FROM THIS 1ST AUTHOR | IAN FLEMING |
TOURISTS MAY VISIT THE CHAWTON, ENGLAND HOME OF THIS SENSIBLE 19TH-C. NOVELIST, STILL POPULAR TODAY | JANE AUSTEN |
IN 1839, AT AGE 19, HE JOINED THE CREW OF THE FREIGHTER ST. LAWRENCE THAT RAN BETWEEN NYC AND LIVERPOOL | MELVILLE |
THIS COUNTRY'S AUTHORS HAVE WON MORE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZES THAN ANY OTHER, INCLUDING THE U.S. | FRANCE |
THE TIPPING POINT, BLINK, OUTLIERS | MALCOLM GLADWELL |
BIG SUR, DHARMA BUMS | JACK KEROUAC |
FIGHT CLUB, CHOKE, SNUFF | CHUCK PALAHNIUK |
A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY, ZEITOUN | DAVE EGGERS |
INTO THIN AIR, INTO THE WILD | JON KRAKAUER |
HOWARDS END, A PASSAGE TO INDIA | E.M. FORSTER |
TWILIGHT, BREAKING DAWN, ECLIPSE | STEPHANIE MEYER |
ANGELA'S ASHES, TIS, TEACHER MAN | FRANK MCCOURT |
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES | HAWTHORNE |
JANE EYRE | CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
THE NOTEBOOK, A WALK TO REMEMBER, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE | NICHOLAS SPARKS |
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER, JITTERBUG PERFUME | TOM ROBBINS |
DAWN FIRST BROKE ON THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL WITH THE WORKING TITLE, "FIESTA" | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
DURING WWI, LT. HENRY GOES AWOL & ESCAPES TO SWITZERLAND TO BE WITH HIS LOVE CATHERINE IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL | A FAREWELL TO ARMS |
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS" PRIMARILY DREW UPON HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THIS PRE-WWII CONFLICT | SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
IN THE 1920S, HEMINGWAY BAILED THIS INNOVATIVE IRISH NOVELIST OUT OF A FEW PARIS BAR FIGHTS | JAMES JOYCE |
HEMINGWAY GOT THE TITLE FOR THIS 1926 NOVEL FROM ECCLESIATES | "THE SUN ALSO RISES" |
HEMINGWAY'S NOVEL, "THE TORRENTS OF SPRING" PARODIES THE STYLE OF THIS "WINESBURG, OHIO" AUTHOR, AN EARLY SUPPORTER OF HIS | SHERWOOD ANDERSON |
IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL, WOUNDED WWI SOLDIER FREDERIC REALLY PRESSES THE CALL BUTTON OF NURSE CATHERINE | A FAREWELL TO ARMS |
STOOD UP AT THE BAR OF PARIS' HOTEL DE CRILLON? OH WELL, SO WAS JAKE BARNES IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
A TELEGRAM IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL SAYS, "LADY ASHLEY HOTEL MONTANA MADRID ARRIVING SUD EXPRESS...LOVE JAKE" | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
GEORGE C. SCOTT LIVED THE GOOD LIFE AS A SCULPTOR IN THE BAHAMAS IN THIS MOVIE BASED ON A POSTHUMOUS HEMINGWAY NOVEL | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM |
HEMINGWAY'S EPIGRAPH TO THIS NOVEL INCLUDES A BIBLICAL PASSAGE THAT BEGINS, "ONE GENERATION PASSETH AWAY..." | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL ENDS WITH JAKE BARNES AND LADY BRETT ASHLEY RIDING IN A TAXI | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
IN THIS HEMINGWAY WWI NOVEL, AMBULANCE DRIVER FREDERIC HENRY FALLS IN LOVE WITH BRITISH NURSE CATHERINE BARKLEY | A FAREWELL TO ARMS |
THE TITLE OF THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL SET DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR COMES FROM ONE OF JOHN DONNE'S "DEVOTIONS" | FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS |
HEMINGWAY REPORTEDLY CONSIDERED THIS SHORT STORY ABOUT A DYING NOVELIST ON AFRICAN SAFARI TO BE HIS BEST | "THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO" |
A RUM SMUGGLER IS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN HIS 1937 NOVEL "TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT" | HEMINGWAY |
HEMINGWAY'S ONLY PULITZER PRIZE CAME IN 1953 FOR THIS SHORT NOVEL ABOUT A CUBAN NAMED SANTIAGO | THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA |
THIS 20TH-C. NOVELIST DEFINED "GUTS" AS "GRACE UNDER PRESSURE" | HEMINGWAY |
IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL, ROBERT JORDAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH MARIA | FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS |
THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL ABOUT THE "LOST GENERATION" IS TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF JAKE BARNES | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
LADY BRETT ASHLEY ELOPES WITH A BULLFIGHTER IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL | THE SUN ALSO RISES |
THE FIRST 2 SECTIONS OF THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL, PUBLISHED 9 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, ARE TITLED "BIMINI" AND "CUBA" | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM |
THIS CALIFORNIAN'S LAST WORK WAS 1976'S "THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND THIS NOBLE KNIGHTS" | JOHN STEINBECK |