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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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