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Question 1

Gertrude Stein

Answer 1

1874-1946 American writer from Oakland - Lived in Paris from 1903, hosted a salon where friends like Hemingway, Picasso, Fitzgerald would meet - Wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) about her life partner - Quotes: “There is no there there” (about Oakland); “A rose is a rose is a rose” (i.e. “things are what they are”)

Question 2

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

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1835-1910 American author from Hannibal, MO - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876); The Prince and the Pauper (1881); Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889); Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

Question 3

Edith Wharton

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1862-1937 American author from NY - The Age of Innocence (1920-Pulitzer-1st fem); Ethan Frome (1911); The House of Mirth (1905) - From upper-class family, travelled in Europe y wrote many travelogues - Supported the French war effort in WWI y awarded the Legion of Honor

Question 4

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Dupin)

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1804-1876 female French author - Indiana (1832); Valentine (1832); Lélia(1833); Mauprat (1837); La Petite Fadette (1849) - Had a number of much-publicized romantic affairs with famous artists, incl. Chopin y Alfred de Musset

Question 5

Émile Zola

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1840-1902 French writer - Wrote the open letter J’accuse! (1898) criticizing French gov over the Dreyfus Affair - Wrote novels Les Rougon-Macquart (1893); Germinal (1885) - Most prominent member of Naturalism movement - Died mysteriously of carbon monoxide poisoning

Question 6

Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy)

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1828-1910 Russian author - War and Peace (1869); Anna Karenina (1877); The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) - Became a fervent Christian anarchist y pacifist in the 1870s, wrote The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) - Promoted nonviolence, which inspired Gandhi y MLK

Question 7

Leon Uris

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1924-2003 American author of historical fiction - Exodus (1958-about founding Israel); Mila 18 (1961-Warsaw uprising during WWII); QB VII (1970-courtroom novel)

Question 8

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson

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1850-94 Scottish author - Treasure Island (1883-or The Mutiny of the Hispaniola, by Capt. George North); Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885-poetry collection); Kidnapped (1886)

Question 9

Anne Tyler

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1941- American author - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1983); The Accidental Tourist (1985); Breathing Lessons (1988-Pulitzer) - Her stories celebrates unremarkable Americans and the ordinary details of their everyday lives

Question 10

Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade)

Answer 10

1740-1814 French author, aristocrat, y philosopher - Famous for his libertine sexuality - The 120 Days of Sodom (1789); Justine (1791); Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) - Most works are violently pornographic - The term sadism comes from him - Spent many years in prison y mental asylums

Question 11

William Makepeace Thackeray

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1811-63 English author - Famous for his satirical works about English society - Vanity Fair (1847-aka A Novel without a Hero); The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844); Pendennis (1848)

Question 12

James Welch

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1940-2003 Native American author from MT - Winter in the Blood (1974); Fools Crow (1986); Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971-poetry) - Grew up in both the Blackfeet y A’aninin cultures

Question 13

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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1694-1778 French writer - Candide (1759-aka Optimism, or All For the Best) - Famous for his wit, his attacks on Catholic Church, y advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, y separation of church and state

Question 14

François Rabelais

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1483-1553 French Renaissance author - Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-series of 5 books) - Known for his gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, y bold naturalism

Question 15

Eudora Welty

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1909-2001 American author from MS - The Optimist’s Daughter (1973-Pulitzer); A Curtain of Green (1941-short stories); Losing Battles (1970) - Awarded Pres Medal of Freedom

Question 16

Noah Webster

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1758-1843 American lexicographer y textbook pioneer from CT - Published American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); The American Spelling Book (1783) - Standardized American spelling - Served in CT House of Reps (1802-07) - Called The Father of American Scholarship and Education

Question 17

(Sir Ahmad) Salman Rushdie

Answer 17

1947- British-Indian author from Bombay - Midnight’s Children (1981-Booker); The Satanic Verses (1988-resulted in fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini); Shalimar the Clown (2005) - Knighted in 2007