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
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1594 he took a job as a tax collector in Andalusia
Miguel de Cervantes
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1995 a library at the Glasgow Veterinary School was named in his honor
James Herriot
$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
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His “Pickwick Papers” was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz
Charles Dickens
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving’s friends to fix them up
Mary Shelley
$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Working in a mental hospital provided background for his “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Ken Kesey
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1965 novel “Desolation Angels” was set just prior to “On the Road”
Jack Kerouac
$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
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California
John Steinbeck
$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
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Among this author’s bestsellers are “Misery” & “The Tommyknockers”
Stephen King
$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)
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her first published novel was “Scruples” in 1978
Judith Krantz
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A jockey who raced in the Grand National, his mysteries usually have a horse-racing theme
Dick Francis
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1996 bestsellers by this author include “Vampire Breath” & “Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns”
R.L. Stine
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “Sleeping Murder”, her last Miss Jane Marple novel, was published posthumously in 1976
Agatha Christie
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1997 he published “Comanche Moon”, a prequel to his “Lonesome Dove”
Larry McMurtry
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He dedicated his novel “Myra Breckenridge” to novelist & playwright Christopher Isherwood
Gore Vidal
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Novels by this political conservative include “See You Later, Alligator” & “Marco Polo, If You Can”
William F. Buckley
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1997 he put his “Spenser” books on hold to introduce a new protagonist, Jesse Stone in “Night Passage”
Robert Parker
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases
Dashiell Hammett
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1989 both the hardcover & paperback editions of his “Cardinal of the Kremlin” were bestsellers
Tom Clancy
$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author seen <a>here</a> was born Howard Allen O’Brien; her name was soon changed [Woman with fairly short black hair shown]
Anne Rice
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He subtitled his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions”, “Or Goodbye Blue Monday!”
Kurt Vonnegut
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She said, “I didn’t realize I had an imagination until I wrote ‘Scruples’”
Judith Krantz
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author wrote 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, including “A World To Win” & “Dragon’s Teeth”
Upton Sinclair
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “David Copperfield” is considered his most autobiographical novel
Charles Dickens
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote his 1982 novel “The Running Man” under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Stephen King
$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
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Cardinal Sins” was ordained a Catholic priest in 1954
Andrew Greeley
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of the “Kent Family Chronicles” wrote mystery novels under the pen name Alan Payne
John Jakes
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A new theory says this author died of rabies, not alcoholism or drug abuse, October 7, 1849
Edgar Allan Poe
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839
Mark Twain
$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
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He followed his 1850 sea tale “White-Jacket” with another sea tale about a white object
Herman Melville
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “The Bishop’s Boys”, about this pair, is by Tom Crouch, a Smithsonian Air & Space Museum curator
the Wright Brothers
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This master of the espionage thriller has written 3 books about top assassin Jason Bourne
Robert Ludlum
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Candide” author wrote the libretti for several Rameau operas, including “La Princesse de Navarre”
Voltaire
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She gave her share of the film rights to “Witness For The Prosecution” to her daughter Rosalind
Agatha Christie
$1400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Rudyard Kipling wrote “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly” & he created Holly Golightly
Truman Capote
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He based the title character of his 1914 novel “Penrod” in part on his nephews
Booth Tarkington
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A royal horse guard during World War II, he “revisited” the war in his “Sword of Honour” trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| When his 1978 novel “The Stand” was reissued in 1990, it was about 50% longer than the original
Stephen King
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In order to write his 1922 novel “Babbitt”, this author studied real estate
Sinclair Lewis
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Breakfast of Champions” author once ran a Saab auto dealership
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in “The Innocents Abroad”
Mark Twain
$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
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She taught Black Studies at Jackson State College before she wrote “The Color Purple”
Alice Walker
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1928 Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Transylvanian village in this country
Romania
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Published in 1915, “The ‘Genius’ “ is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of “Sister Carrie”
Theodore Dreiser
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Alexandria Quartet” was the elder brother of zoologist & writer Gerald Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Moonstone” was named for his father’s friend Sir David Wilkie
Wilkie Collins
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His “Voyages Extraordinaires” include one “From the Earth to the Moon” & one “To the Center of the Earth”
Jules Verne
$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
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Son of the Wolf” & “The Sea-Wolf” called his home “Wolf House”
Jack London
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He began writing the “Aeneid” around 29 B.C. & it was still unfinished at his death in 19 B.C.
Virgil
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Tevye the Dairyman is known as the Jewish Mark Twain
Sholom Aleichem
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In the early ’70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine’s Hampden Academy
Stephen King
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Tarzana, California is named for his most famous character
Edgar Rice Burroughs
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A month after “The Bell Jar” was published in 1963, she took her own life
Sylvia Plath
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1996 book “Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf” includes excerpts from his “Rabbit” novels
John Updike
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Evan Hunter writes his “87th Precinct” & “Matthew Hope” novels under this pseudonym
Ed McBain
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Her recently-discovered work “Lost Laysen” was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of “Gone With The Wind”
Margaret Mitchell
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Lolita” author began writing in English while living in France
Vladimir Nabokov
$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Czech president’s play “The Garden Party” was long banned in his homeland
Vaclav Havel
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Archibald MacLeish based his verse play “J.B.” on this book of the Bible
Job
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| British barrister who brought us Rumpole of the Bailey
John Mortimer
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan
Agatha Christie
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She wrote “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice” & “Northhanger Abbey” between 1795 & 1798
Jane Austen
$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1969 & 1970 this “Andromeda Strain” author was a fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Crichton
$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
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “She” was an advisor to the British government on agriculture
H. Rider Haggard
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Nadine Gortimer, born in the Transvaal in this country, had her 1st story published when she was 15
South Africa
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Douglas Southall Freeman won a Pulitzer Prize for his 4-volume biography of this Confederate general
Robert E. Lee
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Born Edith Newbold Jones, she published “The House of Mirth” under this, her married name
Edith Wharton
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Group” based the heroine of her book “The Company She Keeps” on herself
Mary McCarthy
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He dedicated his 1888 book “Plain Tales From The Hills” “To the wittiest woman in India”
Rudyard Kipling
$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
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Shortly after “The Grapes of Wrath” was published, he embarked on an expedition to Mexico
John Steinbeck
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| After leaving the Mayo Clinic, this author committed suicide July 2, 1961 at his Ketchum, Idaho home
Ernest Hemingway
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this “Sister Carrie” author’s brother
Theodore Dreiser
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His 1885 work “King Solomon’s Mines” was suggested by the ruins at Zimbabwe
H. Rider Haggard
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1858 W.M. Thackeray quarreled with this author in the so-called Garrick Club Affair
Charles Dickens
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi
Mark Twain
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “A Tangled Skein” was this author’s original title for “A Study in Scarlet”
Arthur Conan Doyle
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Towrard the end of World War I, this Mississippi-born author joined the Royal Air Force in Canada
William Faulkner
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She set “Death Comes For The Archbishop” in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie
Willa Cather
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Although this “Of Human Bondage” author earned a medical degree, he never practiced medicine
Somerset Maugham
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1972 he founded the Kinte Foundation, a clearing house for black genealogy
(Alex) Haley
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1991 the U. of Alabama awarded this “To Kill A Mockingbird” author an honorary Doctor of Letters degree
Harper Lee
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This creator of Father Brown converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922
G.K. Chesterton
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In addition to writing, this “Tom Jones” author was also a justice of the peace
(Henry) Fielding
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “Acceptable Risk” has been dubbed “The Master of the Medical Thriller”
Robin Cook
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “Oliver Twist” & “A Tale of Two Cities” are among the classic novels by this British author
Charles Dickens
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His epic novel “War And Peace” features over 500 characters
Leo Tolstoy
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Florentine statesman wrote plays & poems as well as his famous treatise “The Prince”
Niccolò Machiavelli
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1915’s “The Metamorphosis” is one of the best-known works by this Czech-born author
Franz Kafka
$2000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This French author is best remembered for his “A la recherche du temps perdu”
Marcel Proust
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| During the Russo-Japanese War, this “Call of the Wild” author served as a reporter for Hearst
Jack London
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| As a youngster this “Billy Budd” author worked in his brother’s fur store in Albany
Herman Melville
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire
Agatha Christie
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, “Soldiers’ Pay”
William Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author of “The Time Machine” coined the phrase “the war that will end war”
H.G. Wells
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This author gave us the line “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”
(Mario) Puzo
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This “Return of the Native” author’s first novel, “Desperate Remedies”, was published in 1871
Thomas Hardy
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| This Dr. Dolittle creator studied civil engineering at M.I.T.
Hugh Lofting
$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| 1 of only 3 authors to win 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
(1 of) Faulkner, Tarkington & John Updike
$100 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| It was Samuel Clemens’ middle name
Langhorne
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “The American Woman’s Home” was co-written by Catharine Beecher & this famous sister
Harriet Beecher Stowe
$300 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy
Hemingway
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A 19th century Boston Unitarian minister, he was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale
Edward Everett Hale
$500 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Though completed almost 60 years earlier, this English novelist’s “Maurice” was not published until 1971
E.M. Forster
$None ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi’s liberation of Sicily in 1860
Alexandre Dumas
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The short story writer Saki was killed in action in this war in 1916
World War I
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Scotsman who published “The Betrothed” & “The Talisman” together as “Tales of the Crusaders”
(Sir Walter) Scott
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Wilkie Collins wrote a novel about a mysterious “Woman in” this color who lived in an asylum
white
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Ole E. Rolvaag wrote “Giants in the Earth” in this language; it was then translated into English
Norwegian
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Completes the title of Olive Ann Burns’ novel “Cold Sassy…”
Tree
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| He wrote a non-baby book called “Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior”
Dr. Benjamin Spock
$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
$700 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Oscar Wilde’s only novel
“The Picture Of Dorian Gray”
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
Aldous Huxley
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called “Big Blonde”
Dorothy Parker
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sir John Buchan wrote “The 39 Steps” before he became Governor-General of this North American country
Canada
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| She’s also a poet, but she’s more famous for her “Fear of Flying”
Erica Jong
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Sidney Lanier’s novel “Tiger Lillies” was based on his experiences in this 19th century war
U.S. Civil War
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author of “The Vicar of Wakefield” whose friends called him “Goldy”
Oliver Goldsmith
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “Day of the Locust” author whose wife Eileen was the inspiration for “My Sister Eileen”
Nathanael West
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Roman Polanski’s film “Tess” was based on his novel “Tess of the D’ Urbervilles”
Thomas Hardy
$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
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| A Waltham, Mass. university is named for this Supreme Court justice & author of 1914’s “Other People’s Money”
Louis Brandeis
$800 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “The Power of Myth” is a book based on his conversations on PBS with Joseph Campbell
Bill Moyers
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| “The Human Mind” & “Man Against Himself” were written by this Topeka, Kansas psychiatrist
Karl Menninger
$200 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| The success of his first novel, “This Side of Paradise”, allowed him to marry Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald
$400 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Born in India, this English author was the youngest person to win a Nobel prize in literature
Rudyard Kipling
$600 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Creator of “archy and mehitabel”, this humorist once was assistant editor for “The Uncle Remus Magazine”
Don Marquis
$3000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, this woman is the best-selling romance writer of the twentieth century
Barbara Cartland
$1000 ||| Category: AUTHORS ||| Author of “Fathers and Sons”, he was the first Russian to be widely read and admired in Europe
Ivan Turgenev
