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Author of Dazzle

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Judith Krantz

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Author of Congo

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Michael Crichton

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Author of Daisy Miller

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Henry James

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Author of Dandelion Wine

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Ray Bradbury

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Author of Das Kapital

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Karl Marx

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Author of David Copperfield

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Charles Dickens

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Author of Cujo

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Stephen King

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Author of The Day of the Jackal

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Frederick Forsyth

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Author of Cry the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton

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Author of Dead Souls

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Nikolai Gogol

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Author of Death in Venice

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Thomas Mann

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Author of Death on the Nile

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Agatha Christie

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Author of Death in the Afternoon

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Ernest Hemingway

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Author of Death in the Family

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James Agee

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Author of Death Trap

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Ira Levin

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Author of The Day of the Locust

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Nathanael West

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Author of Cover Her Face

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P.D. James

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Author of Ego and the Id

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Sigmund Freud

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Author of Constant Reader

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Dorothy Parker

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Author of The Corsair

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Lord Byron

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Author of Cosmos

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Carl Sagan

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Author of The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

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Author of Cyrano de Bergerac

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Edmond Rostand

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Author of The Covenant

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James Michener

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Author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon

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Author of The Cradle Will Fall

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Mary Higgins Clark

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Author of Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Author of Crimes of the Heart

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Beth Henley

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Author of Crimson Tide

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Tom Clancy

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Author of Crossing the Threshold of Hope

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Pope John Paul II

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Author of A Cry in the Night

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Mary Higgins Clark

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Author of The Country Girl

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Clifford Odets

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Author of Dracula

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Bram Stoker

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Author of Don Juan

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Lord Byron

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Author of Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Author of Dr. Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting

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Author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Author of Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann

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Author of Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Author of Double Indemnity

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James M. Cain

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Author of A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen

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Author of Dragon’s Teeth

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Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer)

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Author of Dubliners

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James Joyce

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Author of Dune

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Frank Herbert

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Author of The Dunwich Horror

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H.P. Lovecraft

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Author of East of Eden

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John Steinbeck

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Author of Breathing Lessons

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Anne Tyler (Pulitzer)

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Author of Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

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Author of A Dictionary of the English Language

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Samuel Johnson

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Author of The Confessions of Nat Turner

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William Styron (Pulitzer)

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Author of The Deerslayer

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Author of Deliverance

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James Dickey

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Author of Demon Box

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Ken Kesey

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Author of The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Stephen Vincent Benet

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Author of The Devil’s Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce

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Author of Dombey and Son

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Charles Dickens

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Author of The Diary of Ann Frank

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Ann Frank

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Author of Dolores Claiborne

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Stephen King

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Author of Disclosure

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Michael Crichton

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Author of The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri

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Author of Dodsworth

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Sinclair Lewis

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Author of Dog Training My Way

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Barbara Woodhouse

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Author of Dogs of War

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Frederick Forsyth

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Author of The Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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65
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Author of Dialogues

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Plato

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66
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Author of Cardinal Sins

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Andrew Greeley

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Author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Mark Twain

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Author of Cancer Ward

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Author of Candide

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Voltaire

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Author of Cannery Row

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John Steinbeck

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Author of The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Author of The Camera Never Blinks

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Dan Rather

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Author of Captains Courageous

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Rudyard Kipling

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Author of The Call of the Wild

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Jack London

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Author of The Cardinal of the Kremlin

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Tom Clancy

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Author of Caribbean

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James Michener

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Author of The Carpetbaggers

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Harold Robbins

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Author of Carrie

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Stephen King

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Author of The Cask of Amontillado

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Author of The Catbird Seat

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James Thurber

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Author of Captain Horatio Hornblower

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C.S. Forester

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Author of Thr Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The best selling book of all time

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The Bible

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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 The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Pierre Boulle

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Author of The Bridges of Madison County

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James Waller

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Author of Bridges at Toko-Ri

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James Michener

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Author of Camille

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Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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Author of The Bronze Horseman

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Alexander Pushkin

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Author of Catch-22

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Joseph Heller

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Author of The Burden of Proof

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Scott Turow

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Author of Bus Stop

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William Inge

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Author of Buterfield 8

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John O’Hara

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Author of The Caballero’s Way

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O. Henry

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Author of Caesar

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Coleen McCullough

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Author of The Caine Mutiny

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Herman Wouk (Pulitzer)

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Author of Brief History of Time

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Stephen Hawking

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Author of The Color Purple

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Alice Walker

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Author of Cimmaron

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Edna Ferber

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Author of Circle of Friends

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Maeve Binchy

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Author of Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Author of A Clear and Present Danger

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Tom Clancy

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Author of The Client

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John Grisham

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Author of The Cat in the Hat

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Dr. Seuss

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Author of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Stephen Spielberg

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Author of The Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens

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Author of Coma

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Robin Cook

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108
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Author of Coming of Age in Samoa

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Margaret Mead

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Author of Common Sense

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Thomas Paine

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Author of Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx

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Author of The Complete Book of Running

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Jim Fixx

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Author of The Compleat Angler

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Izaak Walton

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Author of A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

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Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Roald Dahl

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Author of The Elements

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Euclid

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Author of The Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. Salinger

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Author of Cat’s Cradle

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Author of Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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Mark Twain

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Author of The Centaur

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John Updike

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Author of Centennial

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James Michener

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Author of The Cider House Rules

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John Irving

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Author of The Chamber

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John Grisham

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Author of The Chronicles of Narnia

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C.S. Lewis

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Author of Charlotte’s Web

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E.B. White

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Author of Chesapeake

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James Michener

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Author of A Child’s Christmas in Wales

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Dylan Thomas

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Author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Ian Fleming

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Author of Christine

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Stephen King

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Author of Cat Stories

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James Herriot

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Author of The Century

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Peter Jennings

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Author of Growing Up

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Russell Baker

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Author of Gigi

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Colette

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133
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Author of Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens

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Author of The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Author of Green Hills of Africa

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Ernest Hemingway

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Author of The Gremlins

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Roald Dahl

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137
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Author of The Grasshopper and the Ant

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Aesop

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138
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Author of A Group of Noble Dames

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Thomas Hardy

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Author of The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck (Pulitzer)

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Author of The Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Author of Gulliver’s Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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Author of The Hajj

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Leon Uris

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Author of A Handmaid’s Tale

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Margaret Atwood

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Author of Hansel and Gretel

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Brothers Grimm

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Author of Hardy Boys mysteries

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Franklin W. Dixon

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The Delaney Sisters

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Martin Cruise Smith

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Herman Wouk

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Pearl Buck

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Jackie Collins

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Isabel Allende

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Dr. Seuss

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Louis L’Amour

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Jerry Spence

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Whitney Otto

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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O. Henry

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James Michener

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Noel Coward

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Joseph Conrad

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Carson McCullers

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Sir Walter Scott

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Louis L’Amour

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Johanna Spyri

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Harold Pinter

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John Hersey

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Winston Churchill

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Henry Fielding

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Douglas Adams

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Shirley Jackson

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John Jakes

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Herman Wouk

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Leon Uris

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William Blatty

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Ken Follet

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William Faulkner (Pulitzer)

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Tom Clancy

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Ray Bradbury

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Norman Mailer (Pulitzer)

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Tony Hillerman

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James Bartlett

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Thomas Hardy

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Ernest Hemingway

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Raymond Chandler

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Edmund Spenser

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Peter Schaefer

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Sinclair Lewis

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Jean Cocteau

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Priscilla Presley

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Betty J. Eadie

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Jane Austen

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Pearl Buck

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Author of Entertaining

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Martha Stewart

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Johann von Goethe

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Edith Wharton

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Aleksandr Pushkin

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Tom Robbins

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Author of Every Night - Josephine

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Jacqueline Susann

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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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Michael Ondaatje

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Isaac Asimov

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Ayn Rand

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Stephen King

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Mary Shelly

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John Fowles

234
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Author of Fatherhood

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Bill Cosby

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James Jones

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Ernest Hemingway

237
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Francois Rabelais

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Booth Tarkington

239
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Anita Loos

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Author of Getting Even

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Woody Allen

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Henrik Ibsen

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Edna Ferber

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Aristophanes

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John Grisham

245
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Erica Jong

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Hamilton - Madison - Jay

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Germaine Greer

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Author of The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

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Pearl Buck

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John Galsworthy

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Stephen King

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Winston Groom

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Olivia Goldsmith

255
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Bernard Malamud (Pulitzer)

256
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

257
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Umberto Eco

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Author of For the Record

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Donald Regan

259
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Ivan Turgenev

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James Joyce

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Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

262
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin villain

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Simon Legree

263
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Author from Hannibal - Missouri

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Mark Twain

264
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Mark Twain title lawyer

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Pudd’n head Wilson

265
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Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend

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Becky Thatcher

266
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Tom Sawyer’s aunt

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Aunt Polly

267
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Boy in Treasure Island

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Jack Hawkins

268
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Mark Twain worked for this author

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Bret harte

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Scottish author who lived in Samoa

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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The two cities in A tale of Two Cities

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London and Paris

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Oliver Twist thief

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Artful Dodger

272
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Ebeneezer Scrooge’s deceased partner

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Jacob Marley (first ghost)

273
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Bob Cratchit’s son

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Tiny Tim

274
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Lucy Manett is in this novel

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A Tale of Two Cities

275
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Nicknamed “Papa -“ he commited suicide in Idaho

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Ernest Hemingway

276
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Huckleberry Finn’s black friend

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Jim

277
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Irish author who used “stream of consciousness” technique

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James Joyce

278
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Mike Hammer’s creator

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Mickey Spillane

279
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Sherlock Holme’s address

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221B Baker Street

280
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Sherlock Holme’s sidekick

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Dr. Watson

281
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Sherlock Holme’s arch villain

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Professor Moriarty

282
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Author and anthropologist wrote about Samoa

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Margaret Mead

283
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Treasure Island peg-legged pirate

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Long John Silver

284
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Scottish “Robin Hood”

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Rob Roy

285
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Hemingway’s novel of Bullfighting

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Death in the Afternoon

286
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Ulysses main character

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Stephen Daedalus

287
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Big Brother watched Winston Smith in this novel

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1984

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Alexander Selkirk’s life is the basis for this novel

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Robinson Crusoe

289
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Author who saw the Alaska Gold Rush

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Jack London

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Call of the Wild dog

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Buck

291
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Novel in which Wolf Larson appears

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The Sea Wolf

292
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Scottish author from Edinburgh

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Sir Walter Scott

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Kinsey Millhone creator

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Sue Grafton

294
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Salesman in Death of a Salesman

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Willy Loman

295
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Poe’s Rue Morgue and Purloined Letter detective

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C. August Dupain

296
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Jeeve’s creator

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P.G. Wodehouse

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Nero Wolfe creator

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Rex Stout

298
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Father Brown creator

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G.K. Chesterton

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Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

300
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Kay Scarpetta creator

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Patricia Cornwell

301
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Novel in which Willie Stark appeared

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All the King’s Men

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V.I. Warshawski creator

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Sara Paretsky

303
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Doctor Fu Manchu creator

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Sax Rohmer

304
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Mr. Moto creator

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John Marquand

305
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Charlie Chan creator

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Earl Derr Biggers

306
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Perry Mason creator

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Erle Stanley Gardner

307
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Author of Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

308
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Lord Peter Wimsey creator

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Dorothy Sayer

309
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Lifelong friend of Gertrude Stein

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Alice B. Toklas

310
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First female writer in U.S. Writer’s Hall of Fame

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

311
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Hemingway’s novel of WW I in Italy

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A Farewell to Arms

312
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Character in The Old Man and the Sea

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Santiago

313
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Deer Park author

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Norman Mailer

314
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Norman Mailer Novel set in WW II

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The Naked and the Dead

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After the Fall was about her

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Marilyn Monroe

316
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Ed McBain’s precinct

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87th precinct

317
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E.M. Forster’s country home

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Howard’s End

318
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Novel in which Billie Pilgrim appeared

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Slaughterhouse Five

319
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Mansion in Rebecca

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Manderly

320
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Mansion in Jane Eyre

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Thornfield Hall

321
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Wuthering Heights lad

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Heathcliff

322
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The Little House on the Prairie family

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Ingalls

323
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Novel in which “Scout” Finch appeared

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To Kill a Mockingbird

324
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Hemingway novel about 1920’s Europe and the lost generation

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The Sun Also Rises

325
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Taos - New Mexico author

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E.M. Forster

326
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Subject of The Agony and the Ecstacy

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Michelangelo

327
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Little girl from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Little Eva

328
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King Arthur’s island

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Avalon

329
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King Arthur’s sword

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Excaliber

330
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Edmond Dantes is this man

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The Count of Monte Cristo

331
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Don Quixote’s squire

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Sancho Panza

332
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Cyrano de Bergerac’s love

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Roxanne

333
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Land in Lost Horizon

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Shangri-La

334
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Vlad the impaler is the basis for this character

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Count Dracula

335
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Baroness Orczy’s hero

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

336
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Oscar Wilde’s never aging murderer

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Dorian Grey

337
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C.S. Forester’s naval hero

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

338
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Jules Verne’s captain

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Captain Nemo

339
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Captain Nemo’s submarine

A

Nautilus

340
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Phleas Fogg is in this novel

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Around the World in 80 Days

341
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Count Vronsky’s love

A

Anna Karenina

342
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Classic medieval morality play

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Everyman

343
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Second best selling book of all time

A

Quotations of Mao Tse Tung (The Red Book)

344
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Best selling continuously updated book of all time

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The Guinness Book of Records

345
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The best selling novel of all time

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Valley of the Dolls

346
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Virgil writes that this man is the ancestor of all the Romans

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Aeneas

347
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5th of 6th century Saxon saga

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Beowulf

348
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Sir Galahad’s father

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Lancelot

349
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8th century Anglo-Saxon monk and translator

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Veneral Bede

350
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Main character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A

Quasimodo

351
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14th century “Father of English Literature”

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Geoffrey Chaucer

352
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Crystal City is in this work

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Pilgrim’s Progress

353
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1653 book on fishing

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The Compleat Angler

354
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Dante’s love

A

Beatrice

355
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Milton work about the fall of Satan

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Paradise Lost

356
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Mephistopholes is the devil in this work

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Dr. Faustus

357
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Beowulf monster

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Grendel

358
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She wore the scarlet letter

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Hester Prynne

359
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Steinbeck’s poodle tale

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Travels with Charlie

360
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Adam Trask appears in this novel

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East of Eden

361
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First American man of letters - from Tarrytown - NY

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Washington Irving

362
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Irving’s Sleepy Hollow rider

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The Headless Horseman

363
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Mountains where Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years

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The Catskills

364
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Fogg’s sidekick

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Passepartout

365
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Salem - Massachusetts author

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

366
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Sinclair Lewis’ real estate agent character

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Babbitt

367
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Hester Prynne’s daughter

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Pearl

368
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Vanity Fair lady

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Becky Sharp

369
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Albany - NY author

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Herman Melville

370
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Melville’s award-winning short story

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Billy Budd

371
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Moby-Dick captain

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Captain Ahab

372
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Moby-Dick story teller and sole survivor

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Ishmael

373
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Louisa May Alcott’s literary alter ego

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Jo March

374
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Cooper’s scout in The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer

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Natty Bumpo

375
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Phillip Marlow’s creator

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Raymond Chandler

376
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Quasimodo’s love

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Esmeralda

377
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Character Oliver Mellors was known as

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Lady Chatterly’s Lover

378
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Philip Nolan is this title character

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The Man Without a Country

379
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19th century writer of dime novels

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Ned Buntline

380
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James Fenimore Cooper’s hometown

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Cooperstown - NY

381
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John Steinbeck’s fish factory tale

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Cannery Row

382
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The first Leather-Stocking tale

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The Pioneers

383
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Sinclair Lewis’ novel of European travels

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Dodsworth

384
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Natty Bumpo’s nickname

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Hawkeye

385
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Cooper’s last Mohican

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Uncas

386
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Sauk Center - Minnesota author

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Sinclair Lewis

387
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Town in Our Town

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Grover’s Corners

388
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Sinclair Lewis’ Vermont doctor character

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Arrowsmith

389
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Creator of the character Jean Valjean

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Victor Hugo

390
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Cooper’s five-novel tales

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The Leather-Stocking Tales

391
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Author of Ball Four

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Jim Bouton

392
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Author of Analects

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Confucius

393
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Author of The Ascent of Man

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Jacob Bronowski

394
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Author of Atlas Shrugged

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Ayn Rand

395
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Author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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Gertrude Stein

396
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Author of Awake and Sing!

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Clifford Odets

397
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Author of The Art of Happiness

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Dalai Lama

398
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Author of The Bald Soprano

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Eugene Ionesco

399
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Author of Arrowsmith

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Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer)

400
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Author of Barchester Towers

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Anthony Trollope

401
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Author of Barry Lyndon

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William Makepeace Thackeray

402
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Author of The Basketball Diaries

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Jim Carroll

403
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Author of Battlefield Earth

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L. Ron Hubbard

404
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Author of Be My Guest

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Conrad Hilton

405
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Author of Beast

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Peter Benchley

406
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Author of The Bad Seed

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Maxwell Anderson

407
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Author of Anne of a Thousand Days

A

Maxwell Anderson

408
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Nathan Zuckerman creator

A

Phillip Roth

409
Q

Author of And Quiet Flows the Don

A

Mikhail Sholokhov

410
Q

Author of The Andromeda Strain

A

Michael Chrichton

411
Q

Author of Angela’s Ashes

A

Frank McCourt

412
Q

Author of Anne of Green Gables

A

L.M. Montgomery

413
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Author of As I Lay Dying

A

William Faulkner

414
Q

Author of Anna Karenina

A

Leo Tolstoy

415
Q

Author of The Bell Jar

A

Sylvia Plath

416
Q

Author of Answered Prayers

A

Truman Capote

417
Q

Author of Antigone

A

Sophocles

418
Q

Author of Any Woman’s Blues

A

Erica Jong

419
Q

Author of Apocalypse Watch

A

Robert Ludlum

420
Q

Author of Armies of the Night

A

Norman Mailer

421
Q

Author of Around the World in Eighty Days

A

Jules Verne

422
Q

Author of Anna and the King of Siam

A

Margaret Landon

423
Q

Author of Boston Cooking School Cook Book

A

Fannie Farmer

424
Q

Author of Bluebeard

A

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

425
Q

Author of The Bonfire of the Vanities

A

Thomas Wolfe

426
Q

Author of A Book of Common Prayer

A

Joan Didion

427
Q

Author of Book of Virtues

A

William J. Bennett

428
Q

Author of Boris Godunov

A

Alexander Pushkin

429
Q

Author of The Beautiful and the Damned

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald

430
Q

Author of Born Free

A

Joy Adamson

431
Q

Author of The Black Stallion

A

Walter Farley

432
Q

Author of The Bostonians

A

Henry James

433
Q

Author of The Boys of Summer

A

Roger Kahn

434
Q

Author of The Boys from Brazil

A

Ira Levin

435
Q

Author of Brain

A

Robin Cook

436
Q

Author of Brave New World

A

Aldous Huxley

437
Q

Author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A

Truman Capote

438
Q

Author of The Border (trilogy)

A

Cormac McCarthey

439
Q

Author of Billy Bathgate

A

E.L. Doctorow

440
Q

Author of An American Tragedy

A

Theodore Dreiser

441
Q

Author of Bellefleur

A

Joyce Carol Oates

442
Q

Author of Ben-Hur

A

General Lew Wallace

443
Q

Author of Bestseller

A

Olivia Goldsmith

444
Q

Author of The Betsy

A

Harold Robbins

445
Q

Author of Beyond Good and Evil

A

Friedrich Nietzsche

446
Q

Author of Blue Back Speller

A

Noah Webster

447
Q

Author of Billions and Billions

A

Carl Sagan

448
Q

Author of Bleak House

A

Charles Dickens

449
Q

Author of Billy Budd

A

Herman Melville

450
Q

Author of The Birds of America

A

John J. Audubon

451
Q

Author of The Birds (Modern)

A

Daphne du Maurier

452
Q

Author of The Birds (Ancient)

A

Aristophanes

453
Q

Author of Black Beauty

A

Anna Sewell

454
Q

Author of Being There

A

Jerzy Kosinski

455
Q

Author of The Big Sleep

A

Raymond Chandler

456
Q

Castle Rock or Maine author

A

Stephen King

457
Q

Author of Andersonville

A

MacKinlay Kantor (Pulitzer)

458
Q

The “lady” in A Streetcar Named Desire

A

Blanche Dubois

459
Q

Leading man in A Streetcar Named Desire

A

Stanley Kowalski

460
Q

French-born American diarist

A

Anais Nin

461
Q

King of the techno-thriller

A

Tom Clancy

462
Q

Hero in The Catcher in the Rye

A

Holden Caulfield

463
Q

Writer and LA policeman for 14 years

A

Joseph Wambaugh

464
Q

Main character in The Natural

A

Roy Hobbs

465
Q

French short story writer

A

Guy de Maupassant

466
Q

Creater of Nick and Nora Charles

A

Dashiell Hammett

467
Q

Winner of the first US Nobel Prize for Literature

A

Sinclair Lewis

468
Q

2001: A Space Odyssey computer

A

HAL-9000

469
Q

Author of 1984

A

George Orwell

470
Q

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey

A

Arthur C. Clarke

471
Q

Tom Clancy’s government agent

A

Jack Ryan

472
Q

“The Queen of Suspence”

A

Mary Higgins Clark

473
Q

Sam Spade creator

A

Dashiell Hammett

474
Q

Travis McGee creator

A

John MacDonald

475
Q

Adam Daglish creator

A

P.D. James

476
Q

Harry Lime creator

A

Dashiell Hammett

477
Q

Harry Potter creator

A

J.K. Rowling

478
Q

Winnie the Pooh’s human friend

A

Christopher Robin

479
Q

“Lincoln biographer”

A

Carl Sandburg

480
Q

Author of Acceptable Risk

A

Robin Cook

481
Q

Pygmalion professor

A

Henry Higgins

482
Q

Lady in A Portrait of a Lady

A

Isabel Archer

483
Q

Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness narrator

A

Marlow

484
Q

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s namesake

A

Francis Scott Key

485
Q

Salesman in The Great Gatsby

A

Nick Carroway

486
Q

The Great Gatsby’s love

A

Daisy Buchanan

487
Q

“The Working author”

A

Studs Terkel

488
Q

Author of All the King’s Men

A

Robert Penn Warren

489
Q

Author of Alaska

A

James Michener

490
Q

Author of Alexandria’s Geography

A

Ptolemy

491
Q

Author of The Alhambra

A

Washington Irving

492
Q

Author of Alice Adams

A

Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer)

493
Q

Author of Alice in Wonderland

A

Lewis Carroll

494
Q

Author of 87th Precinct

A

Ed McBain

495
Q

Author of All Quiet on the Western Front

A

Erich Maria Remarque

496
Q

Author of Ageless Body - Timeless Mind

A

Deepak Chopra

497
Q

Author of Alphabet mysteries

A

Sue Grafton

498
Q

Author of The Ambassadors

A

Henry James

499
Q

Author of The Americans

A

Henry James

500
Q

Author of The American Crisis

A

Thomas Paine

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