Literary History Trivia Questions
Total Questions: 16
Which 20th-century author, who worked as a lawyer from the age of 21, used a dictating machine to write his Perry Mason novels?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
erle stanley gardner
Who is the poet whose final edition of 'Leaves of Grass' was published in 1892?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
walt whitman
What type of 14-line lyric poem did Sir Thomas Wyatt introduce to England in the early 1500s?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
sonnet
Which American writer contributed to the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, from 1862 to 1864?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
mark twain
Who revised and included a new section on trout fishing in the 1676 edition of 'The Compleat Angler'?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
izaak walton
Who is the author of the novel 'The Pathfinder,' which features Dew-of-june, an Indian heroine?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
james fenimore cooper
Which author wrote 'The True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal' in 1706?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
daniel defoe
In which country was Ezra Pound when he wrote 'The Pisan Cantos' during his imprisonment?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
italy
In which country was Elie Wiesel born in the village of Sighet in 1928?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
romania
Which transcendentalist writer called for the 'American Scholar' that people say Thoreau embodied in works like 'The American Scholar'?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
ralph waldo emerson
Which author completed the writing of 'Frankenstein' at Albion House in the town of Marlow?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
mary shelley
Which American author had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
zane grey
Which author, unhappy in his marriage, fell in love with his wife's sister and memorialized her in 'Oliver Twist'?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
charles dickens
Which poet was dismissed from his position as a clerk in the Interior Department after the secretary learned he had authored 'Leaves of Grass'?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
walt whitman
Who is the author known for 'Squirrel Nutkin' whose journal was deciphered and published in 1966?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
beatrix potter
Which poet, known for the poem 'Trees,' was killed in action in France on July 30, 1918?
Easy
Click to reveal answer
joyce kilmer
Page 1 of 1