Literary Figures Trivia Questions
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Who is the poet known for the work 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' and who died at age 39 after years of hard drinking and debauchery?
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dylan thomas
Which Welsh poet wrote the 1954 play 'Under Milkwood', originally created for radio?
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dylan thomas
In the novel 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' which author is represented by the character John Grimes?
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james baldwin
Which author published his first novel, 'The Dark Arena', in 1955, and later wrote 'The Godfather'?
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mario puzo
Who was the author of 'Silas Marner' whose first biographer was her husband, John Cross?
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george eliot
In which country was the poet Gustaf Froding known for his brooding verse?
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sweden
Which 20th-century author of 'Myra Breckinridge' was the model for Brinker Hadley in John Knowles' 'A Separate Peace'?
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gore vidal
Which 17th-century poet named Ben was considered the literary father by Sir John Suckling and other 'Sons of Ben'?
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ben jonson
Whose unfinished Philip Marlowe novel was completed by Robert D. Parker in the book 'Poodle Springs'?
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raymond chandler
Which author wrote 'The Making of Americans' while living in Paris for 43 years?
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gertrude stein
Which Massachusetts author wrote 'The Marble Faun,' his last completed novel set in Italy?
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nathaniel hawthorne
Which author, born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, passed away on June 3, 1924 in an Austrian sanitarium after battling tuberculosis and is known for 'The Trial'?
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franz kafka
Which 19th-century Scottish novelist purchased an estate in Samoa around 1889, naming it Valima or 'Five Streams'?
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robert louis stevenson
Which brothers, who later became famous for collecting folk tales, studied law at the University of Marburg?
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brothers grimm
Who told James Boswell, 'The better a man is, the more afraid he is of death'?
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samuel johnson
Which author's novel, 'The Garden of Eden,' was published in 1986, 25 years after his death?
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ernest hemingway
Which literary figure, whose mother was feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, lost her mother 11 days after her birth?
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mary shelley
Who wrote the 1963 book that introduced the term 'Feminine Mystique' to describe the image of women?
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betty friedan
Which author, known for his contributions to children's literature, was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805?
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hans christian andersen
What is the name of A.A. Milne's son, who inspired Winnie-The-Pooh's human friend and passed away in 1996?
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christopher robin milne
Who is the author who died in 1975 shortly after publishing his last Nero Wolfe novel, 'A Family Affair'?
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rex stout
Which author from Georgia left the Atlanta Journal in 1926 after injuring her ankle and spent the next ten years writing a novel?
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margaret mitchell
Which poet, who had six children, wrote 'The Children's Hour'?
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henry wadsworth longfellow
Who is the author that took her own life a month after the publication of 'The Bell Jar' in 1963?
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sylvia plath
Which Longfellow character is honored by a statue in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, that commemorates exiled Acadians?
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evangeline
Who is the author who created crossword puzzles for a Russian newspaper in Berlin before writing the novel 'Lolita'?
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vladimir nabokov
Who is the author of the 1859 book that implied humans have a shared ancestor with monkeys?
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charles darwin
Which Chicago-born writer created the famous character Tarzan?
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edgar rice burroughs
Which author, known for writing 'Silas Marner,' became a recluse after the death of her lover George Lewes?
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george eliot
Who was the author buried on July 6, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho?
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ernest hemingway
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