Origins

Question 1

Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 1

(b. 1809, Boston MA)

Question 2

Charles Dickens

Answer 2

(b. 1812, UK)

Question 3

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 3

(b. 1804, Salem, MA)

Question 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 4

(b. 1803, Boston, MA)

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 5

(b. 1811 Litchfield, CT)

Question 6

George Eliot

Answer 6

(b. 1819, UK)

Question 7

Brontë Sisters

Answer 7

(b. 1810s-20s, West Yorkshire, UK)

Question 8

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 8

(b. 1817, Concord, MA)

Question 9

Herman Melville

Answer 9

(b. 1819, NYC)

Question 10

Walt Whitman

Answer 10

(b. 1819, West Hills, NY)

Question 11

Jules Verne

Answer 11

(b. 1828, France)

Question 12

Emily Dickinson

Answer 12

(b. 1830, Amherst, MA)

Question 13

Lewis Carroll

Answer 13

(b. 1832, UK)

Question 14

Mark Twain

Answer 14

(b. 1835, MO, USA)

Question 15

Leo Tolstoy

Answer 15

(b. 1828, Russia)

Question 16

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Answer 16

(b. 1821, Moscow, Russia)

Question 17

Thomas Hardy

Answer 17

(b. 1840, UK)

Question 18

Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 18

(b. 1844, Germany)

Question 19

Oscar Wilde

Answer 19

(b. 1854, Dublin, Ireland)

Question 20

Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 20

(b. 1859, UK)

Question 21

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 21

(b. 1859, Mumbai, India)

Question 22

Ruben Dario

Answer 22

(b. 1867, Nicaragua)

Question 23

Marcel Proust

Answer 23

(b. 1871, Paris, France)

Question 24

Gertrude Stein

Answer 24

(b. 1874, Pittsburgh, PA)

Question 25

James Joyce

Answer 25

(b. 1882, Ireland)

Question 26

T.S. Elliot

Answer 26

(b. 1888, St. Louis, MO)

Question 27

Agatha Christie

Answer 27

(b. 1890, UK)

Question 28

Franz Kafka

Answer 28

(b. 1883, Prague, Czech Republic)

Question 29

J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer 29

(b. 1892, South Africa)

Question 30

Aldous Huxley

Answer 30

(b. 1894, UK)

Question 31

Arthur Miller

Answer 31

(b. 1915, NYC)

Question 32

William Faulkner

Answer 32

(b. 1897, New Albany, MS)

Question 33

John Steinbeck

Answer 33

(b. 1902, Salinas, CA)

Question 34

Pablo Neruda

Answer 34

(b. 1904, Chile)

Question 35

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 35

(b. 1896, St Paul, MN)

Question 36

Earnest Hemmingway

Answer 36

(b. 1912, Oak Park, IL)

Question 37

J.D. Salinger

Answer 37

(b. 1919, NYC)

Question 38

George Orwell

Answer 38

(b. 1903, India)

Question 39

Gabriel García Márquez

Answer 39

(b. 1927, Colombia)

Question 40

Roald Dahl

Answer 40

(b. 1916, UK)

Question 41

Dr. Seuss

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(b. 1904, Springfield, MA)

Question 42

Harper Lee

Answer 42

(b. 1926, Monroeville, AL)

Question 43

Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 43

(b. 1922, Indianapolis, IN)

Question 44

Jack Kerouac

Answer 44

(b. 1922, Lowell, MA)

Question 45

Truman Capote

Answer 45

(b. 1924, New Orleans, LA)

Question 46

Dante Alighieri

Answer 46

(b. 1265, Florence, IT)

Question 47

Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer 47

(b. Late 1300s, London, UK)

Question 48

William Shakespeare

Answer 48

(b. 1564, UK)

Question 49

John Milton

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(b. 1608, London, England)

Question 50

William Wordsworth

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(b. 1770, UK)

Question 51

Jane Austen

Answer 51

(b. 1775, UK)

Question 52

Washington Irving

Answer 52

(b. 1783, NYC)

Question 53

Robert Frost

Answer 53

(b. 1874, San Francisco)