Literary Figures Trivia Questions
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Who is the subject of the biography subtitled 'The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh'?
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a. a. milne
Which author, associated with a green light symbol in 'The Great Gatsby,' is featured on a stamp?
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f. scott fitzgerald
Which author, as a teenager, cut her hair, dressed in boyish clothes, and called herself William Cather?
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willa cather
Who was the poet who later wrote the novel 'The Color Purple'?
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alice walker
Which author, known for writing 'The Great Gatsby,' also wrote amateur musical comedies during his time at Princeton?
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f. scott fitzgerald
In which country did Pearl Buck grow up, where her parents were missionaries?
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china
In a 1996 novel by Jane Mendelsohn, whose voice is adopted, portraying a female aviator stranded on a desert island?
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amelia earhart
Who is the psychoanalyst that wrote the introduction to a 1949 book on Edgar Allan Poe's life and works and died in 1939?
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sigmund freud
Who is the poet, known for writing 'Hiawatha,' who also taught modern languages at Bowdoin College?
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henry wadsworth longfellow
Which author is best known for her books about China and published her 'American Triptych' under the pen name John Sedges?
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pearl s. buck
Which Russian writer described 'The Cherry Orchard' as a comedy and even a farce, though some may argue otherwise?
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anton chekhov
Which author passed away in 1963, the same year his half brother won the Nobel Prize for Physiology?
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aldous huxley
Who is the author whose first novel, 'Burmese Days', was published in 1934?
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george orwell
Which writer authored 'The Murders In The Rue Morgue' shortly after becoming editor of Graham's Magazine?
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edgar allan poe
Which authors early life is fictionalized in 'David Copperfield'?
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charles dickens
Which poet had a grandnephew named Greenleaf Whittier Pickard who invented the crystal detector used in radio?
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john greenleaf whittier
Who is the author that won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children' and had 'The Satanic Verses' nominated but not win?
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salman rushdie
In which country did Joyce Carol Oates teach English from 1967 to 1978 at the University of Windsor?
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canada
Who was the senior editor at Random House and author of the novel 'Beloved'?
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toni morrison
Which 'Little Women' author was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996?
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louisa may alcott
Who did Kipling refer to as 'The finest man I knew' in his poem about a regimental water-carrier?
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gunga din
Who is the author of 'Gone with the Wind' that attended Washington Seminary in Atlanta as a teenager?
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margaret mitchell
Who was the Reuters' Moscow correspondent in the 1930s and served in British Navy intelligence from 1939 to 1945, and whose last name is synonymous with a famous spy character?
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ian fleming
Which author based the character of Tom Sawyer's half-brother Sid on his own younger brother Henry?
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mark twain
Who became the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835 and wrote 'The Raven'?
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edgar allan poe
Who was the creator of Sherlock Holmes who passed away in July 1930?
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arthur conan doyle
Which author wrote short stories featuring the eccentric McWilliams family, similar to the characters found in Tom Sawyer's adventures?
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mark twain
Who published their first James Bond novel, 'Casino Royale', in 1953?
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ian fleming
Which Russian playwright used the pen names Antosha Chekhonte and Anton Ch.?
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anton chekhov
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