Authors Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit
Stephen King
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894
tuberculosis
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands
Sir Walter Scott
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| About the “Human Comedy” series, he said, “French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary”
Honoré de Balzac
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement
Ernest J. Gaines
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him
James Herriot
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Garp creator also wrote the children’s book “A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound”
(John) Irving
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She followed up “Eat, Pray, Love” with a book on marriage called “Committed”
(Elizabeth) Gilbert
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called “The Wintry Conscience of a Generation”
George Orwell
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His greatest novel was a commercial flop, so he supported his family with stories like “Bartleby the Scrivener”
(Herman) Melville
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A Pulitzer for “American Pastoral” is one of the honors bestowed on this Newarker
(Philip) Roth
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author whose 1st name is also an English word meaning a saying or motto was the 1st president of the Soviet writers’ union
Maxim Gorky
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel
L. Frank Baum
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In “Comics Review” in 1965, “I was a Teenage Grave Robber” was his first published work; he’s still going strong
Stephen King
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1865 he wrote the line “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
Lewis Carroll
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what “you know… that little patch… in Mississippi where you started from”
William Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During WWII this “Gone with the Wind” author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds
(Margaret) Mitchell
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel “Typee” was based on the experience
Herman Melville
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote his last short story, “The Betrothed”, shortly before his play “The Cherry Orchard”
Chekhov
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After years of writing science fiction, he found his niche with historical novels such as “North and South”
(John) Jakes
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She first wrote “Ethan Frome” in French, then later translated it into English
Edith Wharton
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7
Pearl Buck
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include “Jungle Battles”, “His Own Kind” & “The Call of the Primitive”
Edgar Rice Burroughs
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1949 he wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face–forever”
George Orwell
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Before writing his classic novel, he spent 2 years with a group of Oklahoma farmers journeying to California
Steinbeck
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author’s work as a private detective with Pinkerton lent authenticity to “The Maltese Falcon”
(Dashiell) Hammett
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote comic book stories for “Captain America” & “Captain Marvel” before hitting it big with “I, the Jury”
Mickey Spillane
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her major works, including “The Age of Innocence”, were written while living in France, where she moved in 1907
Edith Wharton
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In the 1930s this author of “Marjorie Morningstar” was a writer for comedian Fred Allen
(Herman) Wouk
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1886 he decided to create a new kind of detective who’d use scientific methods rather than intuition
Conan Doyle
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| <a>She</a>’s noted for her novels of life in China
Pearl Buck
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The name of this French writer who died in 1553 has become an adjective referring to coarse humor
Rabelais
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He created dozens of musical works as well as novels like “A Clockwork Orange”
(Anthony) Burgess
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Henry Chinaski was the alter ego of this late hard-living California poet
(Charles) Bukowski
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term “biography”–appropriately, while writing about this Greek
Plutarch
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| It’s said that this “Kim” author’s autograph was so prized in the 1890s that many of his personal checks were never cashed
Rudyard Kipling
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| (<a>Hi. I’m Peggy Noonan.</a>) In 2001 I hit the bestseller lists with “When Character Was King: A Story of” this 40th president
Ronald Reagan
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He based “The Moon and Sixpence” on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British
Somerset Maugham
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| (<a>Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Vanuatu.</a>) This author who served in the New Hebrides in World War II transformed the Vanuatan island of Umboi into his Bali Hai
James A. Michener
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author’s old third-floor room at 85 W. 3rd in Greenwich Village is haunted; residents hear “tell-tale” signs
(Edgar Allan) Poe
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His last novel, “A Passage to India”, is considered his masterwork
E.M. Forster
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He created the Nadsat language for his novel “A Clockwork Orange”
(Anthony) Burgess
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes
Dickens
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote the poem “Gunga Din” to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India
Rudyard Kipling
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This 19th century English author also wrote the books “Curiosa Mathematica” & “Symbolic Logic”
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters
Louisa May Alcott
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Charles Dickens was laid to rest in a private ceremony on June 14, 1870 in the Poet’s Corner of this church
Westminster Abbey
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Oz” author was urged to write his stories by his mother-in-law, noted suffragette Matilda Gage
(L. Frank) Baum
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Yiddish greeting for “peace be with you” gave Solomon Rabinowitz this pen name
Sholom Aleichem
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His story “I Sing the Body Electric!” was adapted as an episode of “The Twilight Zone”
Ray Bradbury
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 2004 the wreck of this author’s plane was located off Marseille, near where his “Saint-Ex” bracelet had been found
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books
Ray Bradbury
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After several decades off it, works by this man seen <a>here</a> returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Molokai wasn’t his “Treasure Island”; he called it the “most distressful country that ever yet was seen”
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1914 this author of “The Time Machine” coined the phrase “the war that will end war”
H. G. Wells
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| When he died in 1951, his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Sinclair Lewis
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While writing “Invisible Man”, he worked as a jazz trumpeter, waiter & photographer
(Ralph) Ellison
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Bedridden much of his life, he died in 1935, the year that his “life with father” was published
Clarence Day
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During the War of 1812 this “Rip Van Winkle” author wrote biographies of naval commanders
(Washington) Irving
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya
Leo Tolstoy
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey’s Clock, in which he published “Barnaby Rudge”
Dickens
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India
Kipling
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885
Bret Harte
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1979 a play based on his novel “Fahrenheit 451” was produced in Los Angeles
Ray Bradbury
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He’s won 2 Nat’l Book Awards: for “Goodbye, Columbus” in 1960 & for “Sabbath’s Theater” 35 years later
Philip Roth
$2400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This French author’s original surname was Balssa before his father changed it
Honore de Balzac
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first novel was written in collaboration with another author using the joint pseudonym Jules Sand
George Sand
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist co-wrote the play “Dinner at Eight” with George S. Kaufman
Edna Ferber
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa’s Cedar Bridge
Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County")
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author’s “The Bear” is one of many stories dealing with the McCaslins of Yoknapatawpha County
William Faulkner
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| It’s said that this “Tom Jones” author (mistakenly) traced his lineage to the Hapsburgs
Henry Fielding
$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Books based on his BBC Radio lectures during WWII include “The Screwtape Letters” & “Mere Christianity”
C.S. Lewis
$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The House of Spirits” once worked for the U.N.’s food & agriculture organization
Isabel Allende
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He led a marine biology expedition to Baja California & later wrote about it in “The Sea of Cortez”
John Steinbeck
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as “The Mighty A”
Margaret Mitchell
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew
Franz Kafka
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Don Quixote” author was called the “Maimed of Lepanto” for wounds suffered in battle
Cervantes
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Activities at a Key West, Fla. festival honoring this author include a running of the bulls & a short story contest
Ernest Hemingway
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 19th century author Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name
George Eliot
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1842 he & a shipmate jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands & lived for a month with the Typee tribe
Herman Melville
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He based Mark Rampion in “Point Counter Point” on his friend D.H. Lawrence; Philip Quarles was based on himself
Aldous Huxley
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author-filmmaker Sherman Alexie, who is part Spokane Indian, grew up on a reservation in this state
Washington
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She dedicated “O Pioneers!” to her fellow novelist Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Iris Murdoch wrote “The Accidental Man” & she wrote “The Accidental Tourist”
Anne Tyler
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Lit., was also the first person from this country to win it
Sweden
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “Goblin Market” is one of the finest poems by this sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man’s widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband’s papers
Ernest Hemingway
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1852 this “Scarlet Letter” author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In addition to his “Alice” books, he wrote many math works including “Euclid and His Modern Rivals”
Lewis Carroll
$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in “Life on the Mississippi”
Mark Twain
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Samoans gave him the title “Tusitala”, or “Teller of Tales”
Robert Louis Stevenson
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His “Screwtape Letters” & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers
C.S. Lewis
