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Who wrote JAWS

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Peter Benchley

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Helen Keller dedicated her autobiography to

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Alexander Graham Bell

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William Sidney Porter was spending some time in Honduras what was he doing

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Hiding from the government (MENACE TO SOCIETY)

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What famous American novelist went under the pen name called Edgar Box

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Gore Vidal

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What is the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister

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Sally

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What does the D in J.D stand for in this authors name

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James David

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Which book had the longest stay in N.Y.C times paperback bestseller

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A life less ordinary

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Who wrote the Da Vinci Code

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Dan Brown

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Who wrote of the novel Jurassic Park

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Michael Crichton

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10
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Who wrote East Eden

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John Steinbeck

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With connection to generational lit

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The birth of Kunta Kinte of Alex Haley’s Roots

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Who wrote the book Knocked

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Aunt Erma’s cope book by Emma Bombeck

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13
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway

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Famous lines from this book are “ an old house in Paris that was covered in vines,’ ‘lived 12 little girls in two straight lines,’ and that’s all there is, there isn’t any more

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Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

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Who wrote carrie and misery

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stephen king

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writer of horrific things was involved in a road acciendt when walking in 1999

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stephen king

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17
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Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita in what language

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english

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American author Samule Langhorme Clemens is known as

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Mark Twain

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What book was David Chapman carrying when he killed John Lenon on 12/8/80

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JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye

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Trio of female novelists who sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published

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Harper lee-to kill a mocking bird

21
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Ernest hemingwy book aout bull fighting

22
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Who wrote Humbolt’s Gift and Herzog

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Saul Bellow

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Norman Bean known as what author

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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A Streetcar Named Desire writer
Tennessee Williams
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Who wrote The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms
JP Donleavy
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Roots Author
Alex Haley
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The Raven Author
Edgar Allen Poe
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Jurassic park author
Michael Crichton
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Writer of The Shining, The Dead Zone, and Misery
Stephen King
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Bought a minivan that hit him for $1500
Stepen King
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Breakfast at Tiffany's Author
Truman Capote
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Interview with a Vampire Author
Anne Rice
34
Huck Finn's remedy for warts is
swiging a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight
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In the book Futility published in 1898 what was the name of the ship that lost after hitting and iceberg (this was before the titanic)
The Titan
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What Walter Farley book became a movie staring Mickey Rooney
The Black Stallion
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, author
James M Cain
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What was Mobey Dick
a whale
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Where does old man in the sea take place
Cuba
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In Mad magazines spoofs of superman what names were used for the man of steel and his newspaper man ego
SUPERDUPERMAN and Clark Bent and Lois Pain `
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Who wrote the opera Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
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The cat in the hat
Dr. Seuss
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Good Wives was a squeal to which classic novel
Little women
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Which literary animal likes honey and says Whats for breakfast
Winnie the Pooh