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Literature Flashcards

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Author of The Hobbit

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Author of Barchester Towers

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Anthony Trollope

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2001: A Space Odyssey computer

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HAL-9000

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Author of The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

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Hemingway’s novel of WW I in Italy

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A Farewell to Arms

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C.S. Forester’s naval hero

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

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Author of Grossology

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Silvia Branzei

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Salem - Massachusetts author

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Author of The Color Purple

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Alice Walker

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Mountains where Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years

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The Catskills

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Natty Bumpo’s nickname

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Hawkeye

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Author of Deliverance

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James Dickey

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Taos - New Mexico author

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E.M. Forster

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Pygmalion professor

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Henry Higgins

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Author of The Art of Happiness

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Dalai Lama

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Author of Arrowsmith

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Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer)

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Author of The Bad Seed

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Maxwell Anderson

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18
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Author of Les Enfants Terrible

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Jean Cocteau

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Author of The Grasshopper and the Ant

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Aesop

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Author of The Exorcist

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William Blatty

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Author of Goose Bumps series

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R. L. Stein

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Author of Ageless Body - Timeless Mind

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Deepak Chopra

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Author of Dubliners

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James Joyce

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Author of Boris Godunov

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Alexander Pushkin

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Author of Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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Travis McGee creator

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John MacDonald

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Author of Born Free

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Joy Adamson

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Author of Getting Even

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Woody Allen

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Author of Circle of Friends

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Maeve Binchy

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30
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Sinclair Lewis’ Vermont doctor character

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Arrowsmith

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31
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Author of Bus Stop

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William Inge

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32
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Character in The Old Man and the Sea

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Santiago

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33
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Norman Mailer Novel set in WW II

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The Naked and the Dead

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34
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Author of Cujo

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Stephen King

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35
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The best selling novel of all time

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Valley of the Dolls

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36
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Author of Around the World in Eighty Days

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Jules Verne

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37
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Author of House of Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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38
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14th century “Father of English Literature”

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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39
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Author of The History of Tom Jones

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Henry Fielding

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40
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Author of The Burden of Proof

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Scott Turow

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41
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Scottish “Robin Hood”

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Rob Roy

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42
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Sir Galahad’s father

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Lancelot

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43
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French short story writer

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Guy de Maupassant

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44
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Author of Alexandria’s Geography

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Ptolemy

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45
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Author of Cancer Ward

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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46
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Author of Death in the Family

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James Agee

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47
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Author who saw the Alaska Gold Rush

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Jack London

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48
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John Steinbeck’s fish factory tale

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Cannery Row

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49
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Author of The Exile

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Pearl Buck

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50
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Don Quixote’s squire

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Sancho Panza

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51
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Author of Daisy Miller

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Henry James

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52
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Author of Dombey and Son

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Charles Dickens

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53
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Author of God’s Little Acre

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Erskine Caldwell

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54
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Author of Dead Souls

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Nikolai Gogol

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55
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Author of Equus

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Peter Schaefer

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56
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Author of The Day of the Jackal

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Frederick Forsyth

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57
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Salesman in Death of a Salesman

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Willy Loman

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58
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Jeeve’s creator

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P.G. Wodehouse

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59
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Author of Boston Cooking School Cook Book

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Fannie Farmer

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60
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Author of Any Woman’s Blues

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Erica Jong

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61
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Author of Cardinal Sins

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Andrew Greeley

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62
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Author of The Bridges of Madison County

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James Waller

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63
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Author of Executive Orders

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Tom Clancy

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64
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19th century writer of dime novels

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Ned Buntline

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65
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Author of The Chamber

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John Grisham

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66
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Author of Bridges at Toko-Ri

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James Michener

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67
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Author of Coming of Age in Samoa

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Margaret Mead

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68
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First female writer in U.S. Writer’s Hall of Fame

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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69
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Character Oliver Mellors was known as

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Lady Chatterly’s Lover

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70
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Author of Hansel and Gretel

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Brothers Grimm

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71
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Author of The Female Eunuch

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Germaine Greer

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72
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Author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Anita Loos

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73
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Author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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Tom Robbins

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Author of Anne of a Thousand Days

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Maxwell Anderson

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75
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Author of A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen

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76
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Author of Cimmaron

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Edna Ferber

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77
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Author of The Heart of Midothian

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Sir Walter Scott

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78
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Author of Cry the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton

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79
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Author of Elvis and Me

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Priscilla Presley

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80
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Author of Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

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81
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Author of A Child’s Christmas in Wales

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Dylan Thomas

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82
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Author of From Here to Eternity

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James Jones

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83
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Author of The Ascent of Man

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Jacob Bronowski

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84
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Author of Goodbye Columbus

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Phillip Roth

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85
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Author of Double Indemnity

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James M. Cain

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86
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Captain Nemo’s submarine

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Nautilus

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87
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Author of The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Pierre Boulle

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88
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Lady in A Portrait of a Lady

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Isabel Archer

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89
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“Lincoln biographer”

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Carl Sandburg

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90
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Author of The Godfather

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Mario Puzo

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91
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Author of Growing Up

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Russell Baker

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92
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Alexander Selkirk’s life is the basis for this novel

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Robinson Crusoe

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93
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Fogg’s sidekick

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Passepartout

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94
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Author of Gigi

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Colette

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95
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Author of Billy Bathgate

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E.L. Doctorow

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Author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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Dr. Seuss

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97
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Perry Mason creator

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Erle Stanley Gardner

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Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Douglas Adams

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99
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Author of The Bostonians

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Henry James

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100
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Winner of the first US Nobel Prize for Literature

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Sinclair Lewis

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101
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Author of Congo

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Michael Crichton

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102
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Author of The Bald Soprano

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Eugene Ionesco

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103
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James Fenimore Cooper’s hometown

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Cooperstown - NY

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104
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Harry Potter creator

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J.K. Rowling

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105
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Novel in which Billie Pilgrim appeared

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Slaughterhouse Five

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106
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Author of Bleak House

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Charles Dickens

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107
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Hester Prynne’s daughter

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Pearl

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108
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Moby-Dick story teller and sole survivor

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Ishmael

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109
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Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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110
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Author of Heidi

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Johanna Spyri

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111
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Author of The Elements

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Euclid

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Author of A Handmaid’s Tale

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Margaret Atwood

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113
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Author of Barry Lyndon

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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114
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The Great Gatsby’s love

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Daisy Buchanan

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115
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Author of Captain Horatio Hornblower

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C.S. Forester

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Author of The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Author of The Border (trilogy)

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Cormac McCarthey

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118
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Author of Cyrano de Bergerac

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Edmond Rostand

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119
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Author of Far from the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy

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120
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Jules Verne’s captain

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Captain Nemo

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121
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The Little House on the Prairie family

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Ingalls

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122
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Author of Charlotte’s Web

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E.B. White

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123
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Author of Hawaii

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James Michener

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124
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Beowulf monster

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Grendel

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125
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Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Roald Dahl

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126
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Author of Crimson Tide

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Tom Clancy

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127
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Author of The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

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128
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Author and anthropologist wrote about Samoa

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Margaret Mead

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129
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Author of The Gentleman from Indiana

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Booth Tarkington

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130
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Author of Anne of Green Gables

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L.M. Montgomery

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131
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Author of Gorky Park

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Martin Cruise Smith

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132
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Author of Don Juan

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Lord Byron

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133
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Author of The Cider House Rules

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John Irving

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134
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Irving’s Sleepy Hollow rider

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The Headless Horseman

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135
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Author of The Covenant

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James Michener

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136
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Author of The Faerie Queene

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Edmund Spenser

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137
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Author of Elmer Gantry

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Sinclair Lewis

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138
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Author of The Gold Bug

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Edgar Allan Poe

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139
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Author of The Catbird Seat

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James Thurber

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140
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Lord Peter Wimsey creator

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Dorothy Sayer

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141
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Author of The Beautiful and the Damned

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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142
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Author of Ball Four

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Jim Bouton

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143
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Author of Acceptable Risk

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Robin Cook

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Michael Chrichton

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Author of The Fallen Man

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Tony Hillerman

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Author of Hope

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Herman Wouk

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Hemingway novel about 1920’s Europe and the lost generation

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The Sun Also Rises

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Author of Cosmos

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Carl Sagan

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Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness narrator

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Marlow

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Author of The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck (Pulitzer)

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Author of The Good Soldier

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Ford Madox Ford

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Cooper’s scout in The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer

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Natty Bumpo

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Author of Foundation’s Edge

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Isaac Asimov

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The first Leather-Stocking tale

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The Pioneers

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Author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thorton Wilder (Pulitzer)

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Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway

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Bob Cratchit’s son

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Tiny Tim

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Author of Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Author of Familiar Quotations

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James Bartlett

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Author of The Basketball Diaries

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Jim Carroll

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Author of The Client

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John Grisham

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The best selling book of all time

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The Bible

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Author of The Caballero’s Way

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O. Henry

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Author of The Hope

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James Michener

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After the Fall was about her

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Marilyn Monroe

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Best selling continuously updated book of all time

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The Guinness Book of Records

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First American man of letters - from Tarrytown - NY

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Washington Irving

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Author of The Federalist Papers

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Hamilton - Madison - Jay

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Sherlock Holme’s sidekick

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Dr. Watson

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Author of The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Thomas Wolfe

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Author of Alphabet mysteries

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Sue Grafton

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Nicknamed “Papa -“ he commited suicide in Idaho

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Ernest Hemingway

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Author of The Birds of America

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John J. Audubon

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Author of Dracula

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Bram Stoker

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Author of Dolores Claiborne

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Stephen King

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Sam Spade creator

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Dashiell Hammett

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Author of The Carpetbaggers

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Harold Robbins

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Author of The Cradle Will Fall

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Mary Higgins Clark

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Author of For the Record

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Donald Regan

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Author of Apocalypse Watch

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Robert Ludlum

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Scottish author who lived in Samoa

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Author of Gone With the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer)

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Author of The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Author of Eye of the Needle

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Ken Follet

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Author of How the West Was Won

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Louis L’Amour

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Ed McBain’s precinct

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87th precinct

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Author of Everything I need to know - I learned in Kindergarten

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Robert Fulghum

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Author of Gulliver’s Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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Novel in which Willie Stark appeared

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All the King’s Men

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Author of The Americans

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Henry James

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Author of Chesapeake

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James Michener

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Author of Being There

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Jerzy Kosinski

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Author of Finnegan’s Wake

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James Joyce

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Author of Dune

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Frank Herbert

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Dante’s love

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Beatrice

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Classic medieval morality play

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Everyman

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Author of Black Beauty

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Anna Sewell

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Author of Fanshawe

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Kinsey Millhone creator

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Sue Grafton

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The two cities in A tale of Two Cities

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London and Paris

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Author of Forest Gump

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Winston Groom

202
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Adam Trask appears in this novel

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East of Eden

203
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Author of Ego and the Id

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Sigmund Freud

204
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Author of The Alhambra

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Washington Irving

205
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Cyrano de Bergerac’s love

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Roxanne

206
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Charlie Chan creator

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Earl Derr Biggers

207
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Author of The Homecoming

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Harold Pinter

208
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Author of The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath

209
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Phillip Marlow’s creator

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Raymond Chandler

210
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Author of Heart of Darkness

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Joseph Conrad

211
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Vlad the impaler is the basis for this character

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Count Dracula

212
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Ulysses main character

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Stephen Daedalus

213
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Author of A Fable

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William Faulkner (Pulitzer)

214
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Nathan Zuckerman creator

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Phillip Roth

215
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The “lady” in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Blanche Dubois

216
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Author of The Dunwich Horror

A

H.P. Lovecraft

217
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Baroness Orczy’s hero

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

218
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Author of Crimes of the Heart

A

Beth Henley

219
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Author of The Big Sleep

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Raymond Chandler

220
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Author of Glory

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Herman Wouk

221
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“The Queen of Suspence”

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Mary Higgins Clark

222
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Author of Gorillas in the Mist

A

Diane Fosse

223
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Author of Disclosure

A

Michael Crichton

224
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Author of The Cardinal of the Kremlin

A

Tom Clancy

225
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Author of And Quiet Flows the Don

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Mikhail Sholokhov

226
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Author of Centennial

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James Michener

227
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Author of Billy Budd

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Herman Melville

228
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Author of The Chronicles of Narnia

A

C.S. Lewis

229
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Author of The Call of the Wild

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Jack London

230
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Author of Four Past Midnight

A

Stephen King

231
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Author of Cat Stories

A

James Herriot

232
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Author of Camille

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Alexandre Dumas (fils)

233
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Author of The Canterbury Tales

A

Geoffrey Chaucer

234
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Creator of the character Jean Valjean

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Victor Hugo

235
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Moby-Dick captain

A

Captain Ahab

236
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Author of The Executioner’s Song

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Norman Mailer (Pulitzer)

237
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Author of Book of Virtues

A

William J. Bennett

238
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Author of Exodus

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Leon Uris

239
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Author of Hotel

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Arthur Hailey

240
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Author of House of Earth Trilogy

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Pearl Buck

241
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Virgil writes that this man is the ancestor of all the Romans

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Aeneas

242
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Author of The Confessions of Nat Turner

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William Styron (Pulitzer)

243
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Author of Essays

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

244
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Author of Gargantua

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Francois Rabelais

245
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Author of Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

246
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Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers

247
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Author of Answered Prayers

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Truman Capote

248
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Author of Fathers and Sons

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Ivan Turgenev

249
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Author of Farewell - My Lovely

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Raymond Chandler

250
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Author of Emma

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Jane Austen

251
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Author of The Haunting of Hill House

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Shirley Jackson

252
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Author of The House of Spirits

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Isabel Allende

253
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Author of Death in the Afternoon

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Ernest Hemingway

254
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Author of Carrie

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Stephen King

255
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Author of A Book of Common Prayer

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Joan Didion

256
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Author of Bestseller

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Olivia Goldsmith

257
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Milton work about the fall of Satan

A

Paradise Lost

258
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Louisa May Alcott’s literary alter ego

A

Jo March

259
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Author of East of Eden

A

John Steinbeck

260
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Author of The Hotel New Hampshire

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John Irving

261
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Author of Bluebeard

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

262
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E.M. Forster’s country home

A

Howard’s End

263
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Author of A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

264
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Author of The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand

265
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Little girl from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Little Eva

266
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Mark Twain worked for this author

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Bret harte

267
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Oscar Wilde’s never aging murderer

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Dorian Grey

268
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Author of Billions and Billions

A

Carl Sagan

269
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Mephistopholes is the devil in this work

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Dr. Faustus

270
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Author of Breathing Lessons

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Anne Tyler (Pulitzer)

271
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Scottish author from Edinburgh

A

Sir Walter Scott

272
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Author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

A

Edward Gibbon

273
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Author of Ben-Hur

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General Lew Wallace

274
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Author of The Boys of Summer

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Roger Kahn

275
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Author of Heaven and Hell

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John Jakes

276
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Father Brown creator

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G.K. Chesterton

277
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Author of Fear of Flying

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Erica Jong

278
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Irish author who used “stream of consciousness” technique

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James Joyce

279
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Harry Lime creator

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Dashiell Hammett

280
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Novel in which “Scout” Finch appeared

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To Kill a Mockingbird

281
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French-born American diarist

A

Anais Nin

282
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Author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A

Ian Fleming

283
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Author of The English Patient

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Michael Ondaatje

284
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Subject of The Agony and the Ecstacy

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Michelangelo

285
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Author of The Corsair

A

Lord Byron

286
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“The Working author”

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Studs Terkel

287
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Author of Death in Venice

A

Thomas Mann

288
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Author of The Hajj

A

Leon Uris

289
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Author of Demon Box

A

Ken Kesey

290
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Creater of Nick and Nora Charles

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Dashiell Hammett

291
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Sinclair Lewis’ novel of European travels

A

Dodsworth

292
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Author of Atlas Shrugged

A

Ayn Rand

293
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Author of The Country Girl

A

Clifford Odets

294
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Author of Fatherhood

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Bill Cosby

295
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Author of The Forsyte Saga

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John Galsworthy

296
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Sauk Center - Minnesota author

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Sinclair Lewis

297
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Author of Buterfield 8

A

John O’Hara

298
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Author of Hiroshima

A

John Hersey

299
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Author of The Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

300
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Author of Goodbye to Berlin

A

Christopher Isherwood

301
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Author of Faust

A

Johann von Goethe

302
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Author of The Diary of Ann Frank

A

Ann Frank

303
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Melville’s award-winning short story

A

Billy Budd

304
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Author of Caribbean

A

James Michener

305
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Author of The Black Stallion

A

Walter Farley

306
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Author of The Caine Mutiny

A

Herman Wouk (Pulitzer)

307
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Author of Brideshead Revisited

A

Evelyn Waugh

308
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Author of Hondo

A

Louis L’Amour

309
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Sinclair Lewis’ real estate agent character

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Babbitt

310
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Big Brother watched Winston Smith in this novel

A

1984

311
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Author of Frankenstein

A

Mary Shelly

312
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Author of The Day of the Locust

A

Nathanael West

313
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Author of Cannery Row

A

John Steinbeck

314
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Author of Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

A

Mark Twain

315
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Author of House of Mirth

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Edith Wharton

316
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Author of The Gremlins

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Roald Dahl

317
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Author of The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Stephen Vincent Benet

318
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Author of Cover Her Face

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P.D. James

319
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Author of The Gambler

A

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

320
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Author of Foucault’s Pendulum

A

Umberto Eco

321
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Hero in The Catcher in the Rye

A

Holden Caulfield

322
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Author of David Copperfield

A

Charles Dickens

323
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Author of The Bronze Horseman

A

Alexander Pushkin

324
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Author of The Gift of the Magi

A

O. Henry

325
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Author of Dandelion Wine

A

Ray Bradbury

326
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Author of Embraced by the Light

A

Betty J. Eadie

327
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Author of Dog Training My Way

A

Barbara Woodhouse

328
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Author of Crossing the Threshold of Hope

A

Pope John Paul II

329
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Ebeneezer Scrooge’s deceased partner

A

Jacob Marley (first ghost)

330
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Doctor Fu Manchu creator

A

Sax Rohmer

331
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Winnie the Pooh’s human friend

A

Christopher Robin

332
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Author of As I Lay Dying

A

William Faulkner

333
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Deer Park author

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Norman Mailer

334
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Author of Dazzle

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Judith Krantz

335
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Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War

A

For Whom the Bell Tolls

336
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Sherlock Holme’s address

A

221B Baker Street

337
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Call of the Wild dog

A

Buck

338
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Philip Nolan is this title character

A

The Man Without a Country

339
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Author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A

Truman Capote

340
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Author of Good-bye Mr. Chips

A

James Hilton

341
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Edmond Dantes is this man

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The Count of Monte Cristo

342
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Author of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A

Stephen Spielberg

343
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Author of Hollywood Wives

A

Jackie Collins

344
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Author of Fahrenheit 451

A

Ray Bradbury

345
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Author of Firestarter

A

Stephen King

346
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Author of Flappers and Philosophers

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald

347
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Author of Dialogues

A

Plato

348
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Lucy Manett is in this novel

A

A Tale of Two Cities

349
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Author of Ghosts

A

Henrik Ibsen

350
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Author of Breakfast of Champions

A

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

351
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King Arthur’s island

A

Avalon

352
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Author of The Century

A

Peter Jennings

353
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Author of Every Night - Josephine

A

Jacqueline Susann

354
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Author of The Firm

A

John Grisham

355
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Author of Brave New World

A

Aldous Huxley

356
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Author of The American Crisis

A

Thomas Paine

357
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Cooper’s five-novel tales

A

The Leather-Stocking Tales

358
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Cooper’s last Mohican

A

Uncas

359
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Author of Having Our Say - the First 100 Years

A

The Delaney Sisters

360
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Author of Hay Fever

A

Noel Coward

361
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Author of All Quiet on the Western Front

A

Erich Maria Remarque

362
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Albany - NY author

A

Herman Melville

363
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Oliver Twist thief

A

Artful Dodger

364
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Author of Coma

A

Robin Cook

365
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Author of Captains Courageous

A

Rudyard Kipling

366
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Author of The Catcher in the Rye

A

J.D. Salinger

367
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Author of 87th Precinct

A

Ed McBain

368
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Author of Death Trap

A

Ira Levin

369
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Author of The Centaur

A

John Updike

370
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Author of Christine

A

Stephen King

371
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Author of Hardy Boys mysteries

A

Franklin W. Dixon

372
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Author of Herzog

A

Saul Bellow

373
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Author of Don Quixote

A

Miguel de Cervantes

374
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Novel in which Wolf Larson appears

A

The Sea Wolf

375
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Author of Brief History of Time

A

Stephen Hawking

376
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Author of Fighting Angel

A

Pearl Buck

377
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Mr. Moto creator

A

John Marquand

378
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Author of Be My Guest

A

Conrad Hilton

379
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Author of Green Hills of Africa

A

Ernest Hemingway

380
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Author of Decameron

A

Giovanni Boccaccio

381
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Boy in Treasure Island

A

Jack Hawkins

382
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Author of The Cask of Amontillado

A

Edgar Allan Poe

383
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Author of Andersonville

A

MacKinlay Kantor (Pulitzer)

384
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Second best selling book of all time

A

Quotations of Mao Tse Tung (The Red Book)

385
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Mansion in Rebecca

A

Manderly

386
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Author of Ethan Frome

A

Edith Wharton

387
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Author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman

A

John Fowles

388
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Author of Battlefield Earth

A

L. Ron Hubbard

389
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Author of Angela’s Ashes

A

Frank McCourt

390
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Author of Candide

A

Voltaire

391
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Phleas Fogg is in this novel

A

Around the World in 80 Days

392
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Mansion in Jane Eyre

A

Thornfield Hall

393
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Author of The Devil’s Dictionary

A

Ambrose Bierce

394
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Author of The Good Earth

A

Pearl Buck (Pulitzer)

395
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Author of Caesar

A

Coleen McCullough

396
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Author of Bellefleur

A

Joyce Carol Oates

397
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin villain

A

Simon Legree

398
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Mike Hammer’s creator

A

Mickey Spillane

399
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Quasimodo’s love

A

Esmeralda

400
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Author of Beast

A

Peter Benchley

401
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Author of The Birds (Modern)

A

Daphne du Maurier

402
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Treasure Island peg-legged pirate

A

Long John Silver

403
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Author of Brain

A

Robin Cook

404
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Author of Catch-22

A

Joseph Heller

405
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Author of Dodsworth

A

Sinclair Lewis

406
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Town in Our Town

A

Grover’s Corners

407
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Author of Alice Adams

A

Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer)

408
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Author from Hannibal - Missouri

A

Mark Twain

409
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Author of Frogs

A

Aristophanes

410
Q

Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend

A

Becky Thatcher

411
Q

Author of Thr Brothers Karamazov

A

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

412
Q

5th of 6th century Saxon saga

A

Beowulf

413
Q

Main character in The Natural

A

Roy Hobbs

414
Q

Author of A Cry in the Night

A

Mary Higgins Clark

415
Q

Tom Sawyer’s aunt

A

Aunt Polly

416
Q

Author of How to Argue and Win Every Time

A

Jerry Spence

417
Q

Author of 1984

A

George Orwell

418
Q

Author of Das Kapital

A

Karl Marx

419
Q

Salesman in The Great Gatsby

A

Nick Carroway

420
Q

Author of The Compleat Angler

A

Izaak Walton

421
Q

Author of Dr. Dolittle

A

Hugh Lofting

422
Q

Author of The Fall of the House of Usher

A

Edgar Allan Poe

423
Q

Author of How to Make and American Quilt

A

Whitney Otto

424
Q

Author of The Ambassadors

A

Henry James

425
Q

Author of The Camera Never Blinks

A

Dan Rather

426
Q

Author of A Dictionary of the English Language

A

Samuel Johnson

427
Q

Author of Anna Karenina

A

Leo Tolstoy

428
Q

Author of The Christmas Carol

A

Charles Dickens

429
Q

Author of The Birds (Ancient)

A

Aristophanes

430
Q

Writer and LA policeman for 14 years

A

Joseph Wambaugh

431
Q

Mark Twain title lawyer

A

Pudd’n head Wilson

432
Q

Wuthering Heights lad

A

Heathcliff

433
Q

Author of Armies of the Night

A

Norman Mailer

434
Q

Author of Entertaining

A

Martha Stewart

435
Q

1653 book on fishing

A

The Compleat Angler

436
Q

Land in Lost Horizon

A

Shangri-La

437
Q

King of the techno-thriller

A

Tom Clancy

438
Q

Huckleberry Finn’s black friend

A

Jim

439
Q

Author of All the King’s Men

A

Robert Penn Warren

440
Q

Author of Anna and the King of Siam

A

Margaret Landon

441
Q

Author of Cat’s Cradle

A

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

442
Q

Author of The History of the English Speaking People

A

Winston Churchill

443
Q

Author of Gravity’s Rainbow

A

Thomas Pynchon

444
Q

She wore the scarlet letter

A

Hester Prynne

445
Q

Crystal City is in this work

A

Pilgrim’s Progress

446
Q

Author of Harriet the Spy

A

Louise Fitzhugh

447
Q

Author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

A

Gertrude Stein

448
Q

Author of Beyond Good and Evil

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

449
Q

Author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A

Robert Louis Stevenson

450
Q

Author of The Cat in the Hat

A

Dr. Seuss

451
Q

Author of The First Wives’ Club

A

Olivia Goldsmith

452
Q

Author of Dragon’s Teeth

A

Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer)

453
Q

Author of The Boys from Brazil

A

Ira Levin

454
Q

Author of Death on the Nile

A

Agatha Christie

455
Q

Author of The Betsy

A

Harold Robbins

456
Q

Tom Clancy’s government agent

A

Jack Ryan

457
Q

Author of A Farewell to Arms

A

Ernest Hemingway

458
Q

8th century Anglo-Saxon monk and translator

A

Veneral Bede

459
Q

Adam Daglish creator

A

P.D. James

460
Q

Leading man in A Streetcar Named Desire

A

Stanley Kowalski

461
Q

Steinbeck’s poodle tale

A

Travels with Charlie

462
Q

Author of The Eclectic Readers

A

William McGuffey

463
Q

Main character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A

Quasimodo

464
Q

Lifelong friend of Gertrude Stein

A

Alice B. Toklas

465
Q

Nero Wolfe creator

A

Rex Stout

466
Q

Author of The Declaration of Independence

A

Thomas Jefferson

467
Q

V.I. Warshawski creator

A

Sara Paretsky

468
Q

Author of Doctor Faustus

A

Thomas Mann

469
Q

Author of The Deerslayer

A

James Fenimore Cooper

470
Q

Author of Awake and Sing!

A

Clifford Odets

471
Q

Author of Antigone

A

Sophocles

472
Q

Author of The Fixer

A

Bernard Malamud (Pulitzer)

473
Q

Sherlock Holme’s arch villain

A

Professor Moriarty

474
Q

Author of Constant Reader

A

Dorothy Parker

475
Q

Vanity Fair lady

A

Becky Sharp

476
Q

Count Vronsky’s love

A

Anna Karenina

477
Q

Poe’s Rue Morgue and Purloined Letter detective

A

C. August Dupain

478
Q

King Arthur’s sword

A

Excaliber

479
Q

Castle Rock or Maine author

A

Stephen King

480
Q

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s namesake

A

Francis Scott Key

481
Q

Author of Communist Manifesto

A

Karl Marx

482
Q

Author of The Hostage

A

Brendan Behan

483
Q

Author of Dogs of War

A

Frederick Forsyth

484
Q

Author of Blue Back Speller

A

Noah Webster

485
Q

Author of Giant

A

Edna Ferber

486
Q

Kay Scarpetta creator

A

Patricia Cornwell

487
Q

Author of The Divine Comedy

A

Dante Alighieri

488
Q

Author of A Group of Noble Dames

A

Thomas Hardy

489
Q

Author of Alice in Wonderland

A

Lewis Carroll

490
Q

Author of An American Tragedy

A

Theodore Dreiser

491
Q

Author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A

Mark Twain

492
Q

Author of The Complete Book of Running

A

Jim Fixx

493
Q

Author of Go Tell It on the Mountain

A

James Baldwin

494
Q

Author of Eugene Onegin

A

Aleksandr Pushkin

495
Q

Hemingway’s novel of Bullfighting

A

Death in the Afternoon

496
Q

Author of Alaska

A

James Michener

497
Q

Author of Analects

A

Confucius

498
Q

Author of A Clear and Present Danger

A

Tom Clancy

499
Q

Author of Common Sense

A

Thomas Paine

500
Q

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey

A

Arthur C. Clarke

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