Authors Flashcards
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit
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Stephen King
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894
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tuberculosis
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands
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Sir Walter Scott
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| About the “Human Comedy” series, he said, “French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary”
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Honoré de Balzac
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement
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Ernest J. Gaines
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him
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James Herriot
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Garp creator also wrote the children’s book “A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound”
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(John) Irving
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She followed up “Eat, Pray, Love” with a book on marriage called “Committed”
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(Elizabeth) Gilbert
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called “The Wintry Conscience of a Generation”
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George Orwell
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His greatest novel was a commercial flop, so he supported his family with stories like “Bartleby the Scrivener”
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(Herman) Melville
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A Pulitzer for “American Pastoral” is one of the honors bestowed on this Newarker
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(Philip) Roth
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$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
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Maxim Gorky
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel
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L. Frank Baum
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In “Comics Review” in 1965, “I was a Teenage Grave Robber” was his first published work; he’s still going strong
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Stephen King
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1865 he wrote the line “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
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Lewis Carroll
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what “you know… that little patch… in Mississippi where you started from”
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William Faulkner
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During WWII this “Gone with the Wind” author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds
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(Margaret) Mitchell
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel “Typee” was based on the experience
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Herman Melville
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote his last short story, “The Betrothed”, shortly before his play “The Cherry Orchard”
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Chekhov
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After years of writing science fiction, he found his niche with historical novels such as “North and South”
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(John) Jakes
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She first wrote “Ethan Frome” in French, then later translated it into English
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Edith Wharton
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7
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Pearl Buck
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include “Jungle Battles”, “His Own Kind” & “The Call of the Primitive”
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1949 he wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face–forever”
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George Orwell
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Before writing his classic novel, he spent 2 years with a group of Oklahoma farmers journeying to California
Steinbeck
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author's work as a private detective with Pinkerton lent authenticity to "The Maltese Falcon"
(Dashiell) Hammett
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote comic book stories for "Captain America" & "Captain Marvel" before hitting it big with "I, the Jury"
Mickey Spillane
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her major works, including "The Age of Innocence", were written while living in France, where she moved in 1907
Edith Wharton
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In the 1930s this author of "Marjorie Morningstar" was a writer for comedian Fred Allen
(Herman) Wouk
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1886 he decided to create a new kind of detective who'd use scientific methods rather than intuition
Conan Doyle
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The name of this French writer who died in 1553 has become an adjective referring to coarse humor
Rabelais
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He created dozens of musical works as well as novels like "A Clockwork Orange"
(Anthony) Burgess
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Henry Chinaski was the alter ego of this late hard-living California poet
(Charles) Bukowski
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek
Plutarch
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$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
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| (Hi. I'm Peggy Noonan.) In 2001 I hit the bestseller lists with "When Character Was King: A Story of" this 40th president
Ronald Reagan
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He based "The Moon and Sixpence" on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British
Somerset Maugham
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| (Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Vanuatu.) 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
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$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
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His last novel, "A Passage to India", is considered his masterwork
E.M. Forster
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He created the Nadsat language for his novel "A Clockwork Orange"
(Anthony) Burgess
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes
Dickens
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote the poem "Gunga Din" to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India
Rudyard Kipling
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic"
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters
Louisa May Alcott
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$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
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Oz" author was urged to write his stories by his mother-in-law, noted suffragette Matilda Gage
(L. Frank) Baum
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Yiddish greeting for "peace be with you" gave Solomon Rabinowitz this pen name
Sholom Aleichem
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His story "I Sing the Body Electric!" was adapted as an episode of "The Twilight Zone"
Ray Bradbury
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 2004 the wreck of this author's plane was located off Marseille, near where his "Saint-Ex" bracelet had been found
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
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$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
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Molokai wasn't his "Treasure Island"; he called it the "most distressful country that ever yet was seen"
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1914 this author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"
H. G. Wells
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| When he died in 1951, his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Sinclair Lewis
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While writing "Invisible Man", he worked as a jazz trumpeter, waiter & photographer
(Ralph) Ellison
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Bedridden much of his life, he died in 1935, the year that his "life with father" was published
Clarence Day
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders
(Washington) Irving
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya
Leo Tolstoy
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge"
Dickens
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India
Kipling
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885
Bret Harte
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1979 a play based on his novel "Fahrenheit 451" was produced in Los Angeles
Ray Bradbury
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$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
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$2400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This French author's original surname was Balssa before his father changed it
Honore de Balzac
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first novel was written in collaboration with another author using the joint pseudonym Jules Sand
George Sand
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist co-wrote the play "Dinner at Eight" with George S. Kaufman
Edna Ferber
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$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\")
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author's "The Bear" is one of many stories dealing with the McCaslins of Yoknapatawpha County
William Faulkner
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| It's said that this "Tom Jones" author (mistakenly) traced his lineage to the Hapsburgs
Henry Fielding
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$1200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Books based on his BBC Radio lectures during WWII include "The Screwtape Letters" & "Mere Christianity"
C.S. Lewis
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$1600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The House of Spirits" once worked for the U.N.'s food & agriculture organization
Isabel Allende
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$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He led a marine biology expedition to Baja California & later wrote about it in "The Sea of Cortez"
John Steinbeck
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"
Margaret Mitchell
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew
Franz Kafka
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle
Cervantes
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$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
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 19th century author Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name
George Eliot
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$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1842 he & a shipmate jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands & lived for a month with the Typee tribe
Herman Melville
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$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
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author-filmmaker Sherman Alexie, who is part Spokane Indian, grew up on a reservation in this state
Washington
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She dedicated "O Pioneers!" to her fellow novelist Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Iris Murdoch wrote "The Accidental Man" & she wrote "The Accidental Tourist"
Anne Tyler
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$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
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "Goblin Market" is one of the finest poems by this sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
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$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
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$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1852 this "Scarlet Letter" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In addition to his "Alice" books, he wrote many math works including "Euclid and His Modern Rivals"
Lewis Carroll
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$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi"
Mark Twain
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Samoans gave him the title "Tusitala", or "Teller of Tales"
Robert Louis Stevenson
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$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His "Screwtape Letters" & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers
C.S. Lewis
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1594 he took a job as a tax collector in Andalusia
Miguel de Cervantes
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1995 a library at the Glasgow Veterinary School was named in his honor
James Herriot
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In January 1999 this author issued a public statement reminding the world the third millennium really begins Jan. 1, 2001
Arthur C. Clarke
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$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His "Pickwick Papers" was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz
Charles Dickens
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving's friends to fix them up
Mary Shelley
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$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Working in a mental hospital provided background for his "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Ken Kesey
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1965 novel "Desolation Angels" was set just prior to "On the Road"
Jack Kerouac
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$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Though christened Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana, he used this first name after arriving in the U.S. in 1872
George Santayana
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California
John Steinbeck
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1745 he bequeathed his estate to be used for the founding of a hospital for the mentally ill in Dublin
Jonathan Swift
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Among this author's bestsellers are "Misery" & "The Tommyknockers"
Stephen King
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$1700 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| When she met President Lincoln, he said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war"
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first published novel was "Scruples" in 1978
Judith Krantz
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A jockey who raced in the Grand National, his mysteries usually have a horse-racing theme
Dick Francis
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1996 bestsellers by this author include "Vampire Breath" & "Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns"
R.L. Stine
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "Sleeping Murder", her last Miss Jane Marple novel, was published posthumously in 1976
Agatha Christie
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1997 he published "Comanche Moon", a prequel to his "Lonesome Dove"
Larry McMurtry
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He dedicated his novel "Myra Breckenridge" to novelist & playwright Christopher Isherwood
Gore Vidal
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Novels by this political conservative include "See You Later, Alligator" & "Marco Polo, If You Can"
William F. Buckley
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1997 he put his "Spenser" books on hold to introduce a new protagonist, Jesse Stone in "Night Passage"
Robert Parker
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases
Dashiell Hammett
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1989 both the hardcover & paperback editions of his “Cardinal of the Kremlin” were bestsellers
Tom Clancy
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$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author seen here was born Howard Allen O'Brien; her name was soon changed [Woman with fairly short black hair shown]
Anne Rice
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He subtitled his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions”, “Or Goodbye Blue Monday!”
Kurt Vonnegut
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She said, “I didn't realize I had an imagination until I wrote ‘Scruples’”
Judith Krantz
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author wrote 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, including “A World To Win” & “Dragon's Teeth”
Upton Sinclair
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "David Copperfield" is considered his most autobiographical novel
Charles Dickens
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote his 1982 novel "The Running Man" under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Stephen King
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The success of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" allowed him to quit the foreign office to write full time
John le Carré
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Cardinal Sins" was ordained a Catholic priest in 1954
Andrew Greeley
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of the "Kent Family Chronicles" wrote mystery novels under the pen name Alan Payne
John Jakes
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A new theory says this author died of rabies, not alcoholism or drug abuse, October 7, 1849
Edgar Allan Poe
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839
Mark Twain
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| You can tour the house at 907 Whitehead Street in Key West where he wrote "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
Ernest Hemingway
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He followed his 1850 sea tale "White-Jacket" with another sea tale about a white object
Herman Melville
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "The Bishop's Boys", about this pair, is by Tom Crouch, a Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator
the Wright Brothers
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This master of the espionage thriller has written 3 books about top assassin Jason Bourne
Robert Ludlum
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Candide" author wrote the libretti for several Rameau operas, including "La Princesse de Navarre"
Voltaire
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She gave her share of the film rights to "Witness For The Prosecution" to her daughter Rosalind
Agatha Christie
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$1400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly" & he created Holly Golightly
Truman Capote
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He based the title character of his 1914 novel "Penrod" in part on his nephews
Booth Tarkington
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A royal horse guard during World War II, he "revisited" the war in his "Sword of Honour" trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| When his 1978 novel "The Stand" was reissued in 1990, it was about 50% longer than the original
Stephen King
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate
Sinclair Lewis
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Breakfast of Champions" author once ran a Saab auto dealership
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad"
Mark Twain
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959
J.R.R. Tolkien
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She taught Black Studies at Jackson State College before she wrote "The Color Purple"
Alice Walker
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1928 Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Transylvanian village in this country
Romania
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Published in 1915, "The 'Genius' " is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of "Sister Carrie"
Theodore Dreiser
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Alexandria Quartet" was the elder brother of zoologist & writer Gerald Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Moonstone" was named for his father's friend Sir David Wilkie
Wilkie Collins
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His "Voyages Extraordinaires" include one "From the Earth to the Moon" & one "To the Center of the Earth"
Jules Verne
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She met poet Percy in the spring of 1814, eloped to France with him in July & married him in 1816
Mary Shelley
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Son of the Wolf" & "The Sea-Wolf" called his home "Wolf House"
Jack London
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He began writing the "Aeneid" around 29 B.C. & it was still unfinished at his death in 19 B.C.
Virgil
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Tevye the Dairyman is known as the Jewish Mark Twain
Sholom Aleichem
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy
Stephen King
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Tarzana, California is named for his most famous character
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life
Sylvia Plath
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1996 book "Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels
John Updike
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Evan Hunter writes his "87th Precinct" & "Matthew Hope" novels under this pseudonym
Ed McBain
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$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her recently-discovered work "Lost Laysen" was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of "Gone With The Wind"
Margaret Mitchell
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Lolita" author began writing in English while living in France
Vladimir Nabokov
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$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Czech president's play "The Garden Party" was long banned in his homeland
Vaclav Havel
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Archibald MacLeish based his verse play "J.B." on this book of the Bible
Job
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$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| British barrister who brought us Rumpole of the Bailey
John Mortimer
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$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan
Agatha Christie
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She wrote "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice" & "Northhanger Abbey" between 1795 & 1798
Jane Austen
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$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1969 & 1970 this "Andromeda Strain" author was a fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Crichton
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this "Little House on the Prairie" author briefly lived is a museum
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "She" was an advisor to the British government on agriculture
H. Rider Haggard
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Nadine Gortimer, born in the Transvaal in this country, had her 1st story published when she was 15
South Africa
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Douglas Southall Freeman won a Pulitzer Prize for his 4-volume biography of this Confederate general
Robert E. Lee
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Born Edith Newbold Jones, she published "The House of Mirth" under this, her married name
Edith Wharton
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Group" based the heroine of her book "The Company She Keeps" on herself
Mary McCarthy
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He dedicated his 1888 book "Plain Tales From The Hills" "To the wittiest woman in India"
Rudyard Kipling
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$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client
John Grisham
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Shortly after "The Grapes of Wrath" was published, he embarked on an expedition to Mexico
John Steinbeck
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After leaving the Mayo Clinic, this author committed suicide July 2, 1961 at his Ketchum, Idaho home
Ernest Hemingway
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this "Sister Carrie" author's brother
Theodore Dreiser
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1885 work "King Solomon's Mines" was suggested by the ruins at Zimbabwe
H. Rider Haggard
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1858 W.M. Thackeray quarreled with this author in the so-called Garrick Club Affair
Charles Dickens
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi
Mark Twain
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "A Tangled Skein" was this author's original title for "A Study in Scarlet"
Arthur Conan Doyle
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Towrard the end of World War I, this Mississippi-born author joined the Royal Air Force in Canada
William Faulkner
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She set "Death Comes For The Archbishop" in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie
Willa Cather
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Although this "Of Human Bondage" author earned a medical degree, he never practiced medicine
Somerset Maugham
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1972 he founded the Kinte Foundation, a clearing house for black genealogy
(Alex) Haley
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1991 the U. of Alabama awarded this "To Kill A Mockingbird" author an honorary Doctor of Letters degree
Harper Lee
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$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Father Brown converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922
G.K. Chesterton
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$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In addition to writing, this "Tom Jones" author was also a justice of the peace
(Henry) Fielding
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$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "Acceptable Risk" has been dubbed "The Master of the Medical Thriller"
Robin Cook
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$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author
Charles Dickens
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$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His epic novel "War And Peace" features over 500 characters
Leo Tolstoy
188
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Florentine statesman wrote plays & poems as well as his famous treatise "The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
189
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1915's "The Metamorphosis" is one of the best-known works by this Czech-born author
Franz Kafka
190
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This French author is best remembered for his "A la recherche du temps perdu"
Marcel Proust
191
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During the Russo-Japanese War, this "Call of the Wild" author served as a reporter for Hearst
Jack London
192
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| As a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany
Herman Melville
193
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire
Agatha Christie
194
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
195
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay"
William Faulkner
196
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"
H.G. Wells
197
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author gave us the line "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse"
(Mario) Puzo
198
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This "Return of the Native" author's first novel, "Desperate Remedies", was published in 1871
Thomas Hardy
199
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Dr. Dolittle creator studied civil engineering at M.I.T.
Hugh Lofting
200
$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1 of only 3 authors to win 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
(1 of) Faulkner, Tarkington & John Updike
201
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| It was Samuel Clemens' middle name
Langhorne
202
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "The American Woman's Home" was co-written by Catharine Beecher & this famous sister
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy
Hemingway
204
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A 19th century Boston Unitarian minister, he was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale
Edward Everett Hale
205
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Though completed almost 60 years earlier, this English novelist's "Maurice" was not published until 1971
E.M. Forster
206
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi's liberation of Sicily in 1860
Alexandre Dumas
207
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The short story writer Saki was killed in action in this war in 1916
World War I
208
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Scotsman who published "The Betrothed" & "The Talisman" together as "Tales of the Crusaders"
(Sir Walter) Scott
209
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Wilkie Collins wrote a novel about a mysterious "Woman in" this color who lived in an asylum
white
210
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Ole E. Rolvaag wrote "Giants in the Earth" in this language; it was then translated into English
Norwegian
211
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Completes the title of Olive Ann Burns' novel "Cold Sassy..."
Tree
212
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote a non-baby book called "Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior"
Dr. Benjamin Spock
213
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.
Ernest Hemingway
214
$700 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Oscar Wilde's only novel
"The Picture Of Dorian Gray"
215
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
Aldous Huxley
216
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde"
Dorothy Parker
217
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sir John Buchan wrote "The 39 Steps" before he became Governor-General of this North American country
Canada
218
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She's also a poet, but she's more famous for her "Fear of Flying"
Erica Jong
219
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sidney Lanier's novel "Tiger Lillies" was based on his experiences in this 19th century war
U.S. Civil War
220
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author of "The Vicar of Wakefield" whose friends called him "Goldy"
Oliver Goldsmith
221
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "Day of the Locust" author whose wife Eileen was the inspiration for "My Sister Eileen"
Nathanael West
222
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Roman Polanski's film "Tess" was based on his novel "Tess of the D' Urbervilles"
Thomas Hardy
223
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Civil War historian won a Pulitzer prize & a nat'l book award for 1953's "A Stillness at Appomattox"
Bruce Catton
224
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A Waltham, Mass. university is named for this Supreme Court justice & author of 1914's "Other People's Money"
Louis Brandeis
225
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "The Power of Myth" is a book based on his conversations on PBS with Joseph Campbell
Bill Moyers
226
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| "The Human Mind" & "Man Against Himself" were written by this Topeka, Kansas psychiatrist
Karl Menninger
227
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The success of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise", allowed him to marry Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald
228
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Born in India, this English author was the youngest person to win a Nobel prize in literature
Rudyard Kipling
229
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Creator of "archy and mehitabel", this humorist once was assistant editor for "The Uncle Remus Magazine"
Don Marquis
230
$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, this woman is the best-selling romance writer of the twentieth century
Barbara Cartland
231
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author of "Fathers and Sons", he was the first Russian to be widely read and admired in Europe
Ivan Turgenev
