Authors Trivia Questions
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Who is the author of the book 'Sex & The Single Girl', which if you read at 21, you would be 57 now?
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helen gurley brown
Which M.I.T. civil engineering graduate is the creator of Dr. Dolittle?
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hugh lofting
Which biographer became the subject of the unauthorized book 'Poison Pen'?
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kitty kelley
Which author began his literary career by writing short stories such as 'The Salvation of Swithin Forsyte'?
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john galsworthy
Who subtitled his autobiographical novel 'Look Homeward, Angel' 'A Story of the Buried Life'?
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thomas wolfe
What is the hometown of Daphne DuMaurier?
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london
Which author wrote 'The 100 Secret Senses'?
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amy tan
Who is the author who began writing the 'Aeneid' around 29 B.C. and left it unfinished at his death in 19 B.C.?
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virgil
Which U.S. state is Stephen King a native of and often features as the setting in many of his novels?
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maine
Who is the expert on chimpanzees who wrote the 1971 book about hyenas titled 'Innocent Killers'?
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jane goodall
Which CNN host authored 'How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere,' sharing 'The Secrets of Good Communication'?
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larry king
Which hard-boiled author, best known for creating the detective character Mike Hammer, writes novels in South Carolina?
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mickey spillane
Who is the 'Dr. Dolittle' author who wrote an anti-war poem for adults titled 'Victory for the Slain' in 1942?
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hugh lofting
Who is the author of both 'Claudius the God' and 'I, Claudius'?
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robert graves
Which author described his 1966 book 'In Cold Blood' as a 'nonfiction novel'?
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truman capote
Who is the woman who wrote the book 'Passages' and is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair?
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gail sheehy
Who described her narrative world as 'The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with, so fine a brush'?
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jane austen
Which author wrote 'Spy Story', 'Spy Hook', 'Spy Line', 'Spy Sinker', 'Yesterday's Spy', and 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy'?
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len deighton
Which author's writing was influenced by the tragic death of his daughter Dominique, particularly in the book 'People Like Us'?
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dominick dunne
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