Literary History Trivia Questions
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Which author, who passed away in 1919, had a series of 'Oz' booklets sponsored by Jell-O in the 1930s?
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l. frank baum
Which north African capital inspired Cervantes' play 'El Trato de Angel' after spending 5 years as an unsold slave there?
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algiers
Which novelist was buried in Kilchberg, near Zurich in 1955, not at the Magic Mountain?
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thomas mann
Which writer, in September 1991, emerged from hiding to accept an award for 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'?
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salman rushdie
Which author, who served as a royal horse guard during World War II, revisited the war in his 'Sword of Honour' trilogy?
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evelyn waugh
Which author wrote 'Cell 2455, Death Row' and was executed despite its best-seller status?
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caryl chessman
Which poet did T.S. Eliot help release from a Washington mental institution in 1958?
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ezra pound
Which imprint did Simon & Schuster use to publish the first small paperbacks in 1939?
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pocket books
Which country is known for having one of its greatest literary works, the Prose Edda, written by medieval poet Snorri Sturluson?
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iceland
Which member of the Bloomsbury literary group drowned herself on March 28, 1941?
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virginia woolf
Which poet used the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache while serving as a soldier?
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samuel taylor coleridge
Which magazine, now published by the Ben Franklin Literary & Medical Society, was sold by Curtis in 1982?
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saturday evening post
Who is the author that declined the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for his novel 'Arrowsmith'?
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sinclair lewis
Which detective novelist had five of their books re-issued by Lillian Hellman in 1965?
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dashiell hammett
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