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Literary Facts II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hester Prynne and Pearl are in this novel | The Scarlette Letter |
| Nicknamed “Papa,” he committed suicide in Idaho | Ernest Hemingway |
| Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Hemingway novel of the lost generation | The Sun Also Rises |
| Hemingway’s novel of Bullfighting | Death in the Afternoon |
| Hemingway’s novel of WW I in Italy | A Farewell to Arms |
| Character in The Old Man and the Sea | Santiago |
| Sauk Center, Minnesota author | Sinclair Lewis |
| Town in Our Town | Grover’s Corners |
| Sinclair Lewis’ Vermont doctor | Arrowsmith |
| Sinclair Lewis’ real estate agent | Babbitt |
| Sinclair Lewis’ novel of European travels | Dodsworth |
| Monterey, CA author | John Stienbeck |
| Stienbeck story of friends in Monterey after WWI | Tortilla Flat |
| Stienbeck popular short story | The Red Pony |
| Joad family appears in this novel | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Steinbeck’s fish factory tale | Cannery Row |
| Steinbeck’s poodle tale | Travels With Charlie |
| Adam Trask appears in this novel | East of Eden |
| Russian-American author born in St. Petersburg | Ayn Rand |
| Dagney Taggart is a character in this novel | Atlas Shrugged |
| Howard Roark is a character in this novel | The Fountainhead |
| Deer Park author | Norman Mailer |
| Norman Mailer novel set in WW II | The Naked and the Dead |
| The Executioner’s Song was about him | Gary Gilmore |
| After the Fall was about her | Marilyn Monroe |
| Taos, New Mexico author | D.H. Lawrence |
| Paul Morel is a character in this D.H. Lawrence novel | Sons and Lovers |
| D.H. Lawrence highly-censored novel of 1928 | Lady Chatterly’s Lover |
| London author of A Room with a View | E.M. Forester |
| E.M. Forster’s country home | Howard’s End |
| E. M. Forester novel of India independence movement | A Passage to India |
| Lifelong friend of Gertrude Stein | Alice B. Toklas |
| Mansion in Rebecca | Manderly |
| Mr. Rochester appears in this novel | Jane Eyre |
| Mansion in Jane Eyre | Thornfield Hall |
| Heathcliff is a character in this novel | Wuthering Heights |
| The Little House on the Prairie family | Ingalls |
| Novel in which “Scout” Finch appeared | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Novel in which Willie Stark appeared | All the King’s Men |
| Novel in which Billie Pilgrim appeared | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Novel in which Howard Roark appeared | Atlas Shrugged |
| Ed McBain’s precinct | 87th Precinct |
| Salesman in Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman |
| Poe’s Rue Morgue and Purloined Letter detective | C. August Dupain |
| Jeeves’ creator | P. G. Wodehouse |
| Nero Wolfe creator | Rex Stout |
| Father Brown creator | G. K. Chesterton |
| Lord Peter Wimsey creator | Dorothy Sayer |
| Nick and Nora Charles creator | Dashiell Hammett |
| Kay Scarpetta creator | Patricia Cornwell |
| Kinsey Millhone creator | Sue Grafton |
| V.I. Warshawski creator | Sara Paretsky |
| Doctor Fu Manchu creator | Sax Rohmer |
| Mr. Moto creator | John Marquand |
| Charlie Chan creator | Earl Derr Biggers |
| Perry Mason creator | Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Nathan Zuckerman creator | Phillip Roth |
| Mike Hammer’s creator | Mickey Spillane |
| Philip Marlowe’s creator | Raymond Chandler |
| Sam Spade creator | Dashiell Hammett |
| Travis McGee creator | John MacDonald |
| Jim Chee (Navajo policeman) creator | Tony Hillerman |
| Adam Daglish creator | P. D. James |
| Harry Lime creator | Dashiell Hammett |
| Alex Cross creator | James Patterson |
| “The Working author” | Studs Terkel |
| “Lincoln biographer” | Carl Sandburg |
| “The Queen of Suspense” | Mary Higgins Clark |
| Pygmalion professor | Henry Higgins |
| Lady in Portrait of a Lady | Isabel Archer |
| Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness narrator | Marlow |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald’s namesake | Francis Scott Key |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife | Zelda |
| Main character in The Natural | Roy Hobbs |
| Roy Hobbs’ bat | ‘Wonderboy’ |
| Hero of Catcher in the Rye | Holden Caulfield |
| Winnie the Pooh’s human friend | Christopher Robin |
| Pig in Charlotte’s Web | Wilbur |
| The “lady” in A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche Dubois |
| Leading man in A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski |
| French-born American diarist | Anias Nin |
| King of the Techno-thriller | Tom Clancy |
| Tom Clancy’s government agent | Jack Ryan |
| Writer and LA policeman for 14 years | Joseph Wambaugh |
| Castle Rock or Maine author | Stephen King |
| French short story writer | Guy de Maupassant |
| Winner of the first U.S. Nobel Prize for Literature | Eugene O’Neill |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey computer | HAL-9000 |
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