Americans 1950-99

Question 1

Ralph Ellison

Answer 1

Invisible Man (1952)

Question 2

E. B. White

Answer 2

Charlotte’s Web (1952)

Question 3

Ray Bradbury

Answer 3

Farenheit 451 (1953)

Question 4

Allen Ginsburg

Answer 4

Howl

Question 5

Ayn Rand

Question 6

Jack Kerouac

Answer 6

On The Road (1957)

Question 7

Harper Lee

Answer 7

To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)

Question 8

Joseph Heller

Answer 8

Catch 22 (1961)

Question 9

Rachel Carson

Answer 9

Silent Spring (1962)

Question 10

James Baldwin

Answer 10

Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), Notes of A Native Son

Question 11

Truman Capote

Answer 11

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), In Cold Blood (1968)

Question 12

Toni Morrison

Answer 12

Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987)

Question 13

Alice Walker

Answer 13

The Color Purple (1982)

Question 14

Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 14

Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Question 15

Ken Kesey

Answer 15

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Question 16

Philip Roth

Answer 16

Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), American Pastoral (1997), The Human Stain (2000), The Plot Against America (2004)

Question 17

Sylvia Plath

Answer 17

The Bell Jar

Question 18

John Updike

Answer 18

Rabbit, Run (1960) (3 others), The Witches of Eastwick

Question 18

Cormac McCarthy

Answer 18

Blood Meridian (1986), The Road (2006), All The Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men

Question 18

Frank Herbert

Answer 18

Dune (1965)

Question 19

John Kennedy Toole

Answer 19

Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

Question 20

Donna Tartt

Answer 20

The Secret History (1992), The Goldfinch

Question 21

Saul Bellow

Answer 21

Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March

Question 22

Don DeLillo

Answer 22

White Noise, Underworld