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| AFTER YEARS OF WRITING SCIENCE FICTION, HE FOUND HIS NICHE WITH HISTORICAL NOVELS, SUCH AS "NORTH AND SOUTH" | show 🗑
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| show | KLONDIKE
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| HIS "BARNABY RUDGE", A NOVEL OF THE 1780 ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS, DESCRIBES THE RIOTERS' ACTIONS, AND LATER THEIR HANGING, IN BLOOMSBURY SQUARE | show 🗑
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| THIS DUMAS HERO IS INCARCERATED FOR ALLEGEDLY CARRYING LETTERS FROM ELBA TO PARIS | show 🗑
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| BROTHER WILLIAM, THE HERO OF THIS UMBERTO ECO NOVEL, IS A BUDDY OF WILLIAM OF OCCAM | show 🗑
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| show | PEARL BUCK
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| show | HISTORICAL FICTION
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| AMONG HIS HISTORICAL NOVELS ARE "BURR" AND "1876" | show 🗑
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| show | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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| E.L. DOCTOROW'S "THE MARCH" TELLS THE STORY OF THOSE ON THIS GENERAL'S MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA | show 🗑
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| LARRY MCMURTRY'S "TELEGRAPH DAYS" HAS HEROINE NELLIE COURTRIGHT WITNESSING THE 1881 GUNFIGHT AT THIS PLACE | show 🗑
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| "GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING" IS THE STORY OF GRIET, WHO WORKS IN THE DELFT HOUSEHOLD OF THIS 17TH-C. PAINTER | show 🗑
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| show | LEON URIS
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| "THE PIONEERS" AND "THE PRAIRIE" ARE 2 OF THE 5 HISTORICAL NOVELS IN THIS SERIES | show 🗑
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| show | GEORGE & MARTHA WASHINGTON
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| show | BEN-HUR
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| show | SWEDEN
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| IRVING STONE'S "THE ORIGIN" IS "A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL OF" THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THIS SCIENTIST | show 🗑
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| show | CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
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| show | THE CIVIL WAR
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| show | THOMAS JEFFERSON
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| "THE CONQUEROR" BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON FICTIONALIZES THE LIFE OF THIS EARLY 19TH-C. DUELING VICTIM | show 🗑
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| show | MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
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| show | SIR WALTER SCOTT
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| show | GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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| show | THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY
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| WILD BILL HICKOK TURNS UP IN "BOONE'S LICK", A 2000 NOVEL BY THIS "LONESOME DOVE" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| "GATES OF FIRE" IS AN EPIC NOVEL ABOUT THIS BATTLE LOST BY THE SPARTANS IN 480 B.C. | show 🗑
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| show | COLD MOUNTAIN
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| show | WARSAW
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| show | THE ALAMO
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| "HENRY ST. JOHN, GENTLEMAN" IS SET IN THIS VIRGINIA VALLEY, AT THE ONSET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | show 🗑
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| THE 3RD BOOK IN JAMES REASONER'S CIVIL WAR SAGA IS NAMED FOR THIS MARYLAND BATTLE THE REBELS CALLED SHARPSBURG | show 🗑
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| JANE PORTER'S 1810 NOVEL "THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS" TELLS THE STORY OF THIS MAN, THE HERO OF "BRAVEHEART" | show 🗑
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| THE FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN BY A ZULU IN THE ZULU LANGUAGE WAS JOHN L. DUBE'S NOVEL ABOUT THIS GREAT ZULU CHIEF | show 🗑
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| THE 1875 NOVEL "HONEST JOHN VANE" SATIRIZES THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS GENERAL-TURNED-PRESIDENT | show 🗑
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| "DRED: A TALE OF THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP" WAS HER SECOND ANTI-SLAVERY NOVEL | show 🗑
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| KING LOUIS XI OF FRANCE IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN THIS SCOTSMAN'S 1823 NOVEL "QUENTIN DURWARD" | show 🗑
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| THE HERO OF THIS "VANITY FAIR" AUTHOR'S "HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND" FIGHTS IN THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | show 🗑
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| HE WROTE "THE FAIR GOD", A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO, 7 YEARS BEFORE "BEN-HUR" | show 🗑
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| "MY THEODOSIA" IS THE STORY OF THIS MAN'S DAUGHTER, THEODOSIA BURR ALSTON, BELIEVED TO BE LOST AT SEA IN 1813 | show 🗑
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| show | CHESAPEAKE
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| CHIEF CONANCHET IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN "THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH", AN 1829 NOVEL BY THIS AMERICAN AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | SIR WALTER SCOTT
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| show | SALEM, MASS
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| show | POCAHONTAS
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| "KENILWORTH" TELLS THE TALE OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, WHO SOME SAY KILLED HIS WIFE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MARRY THIS QUEEN | show 🗑
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| "THE ORPHAN ANGEL" DEPICTS WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO THIS ROMANTIC POET IF HE'D BEEN RESCUED FROM DROWNING | show 🗑
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| show | FRANCIS MARION
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| show | DUKE OF WELLINGTON
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| HIS HISTORICAL NOVELS INCLUDE "THE LAST OF THE BARONS" AND "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII" | show 🗑
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| HE STOOD 5'3" AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF MOVIES THAT CAME OUT IN 2005 & 2006 | show 🗑
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| HE REVIEWED FILMS & TV FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC BEFORE HIS FIRST BOOK, "GOODBYE, COLUMBUS", WAS PUBLISHED IN 1959 | show 🗑
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| show | ARTHUR MILLER
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| show | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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| show | ARTHUR SCHLESINGER
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| show | RIMBAUD
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| THIS "ARTHUR" WON A HUGO AWARD FOR A 1973 NOVEL | show 🗑
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| REASON FOR THE 2006 RECALL OF THE NOVEL, "HOW OPAL MEHTA GOT KISSED, GOT WILD, AND GOT A LIFE" | show 🗑
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| show | THE NEVERENDING STORY
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| THIS BEHRENDT & TUCCILLO BOOK, NOW A MOVIE, IS SUBTITLED "THE NO EXCUSES TRUTH TO UNDERSTANDING GUYS" | show 🗑
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| show | CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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| show | DASHIELL HAMMETT
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| CREATOR OF KINSEY MILLHONE | show 🗑
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| CREATOR OF C. AUGUSTE DUPIN | show 🗑
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| CREATOR OF ALEX CROSS | show 🗑
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| CREATOR OF EASY RAWLINS | show 🗑
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| LIKE WILLIAM INGE, GAO XINGJIAN WROTE A PLAY WITH THIS TRANSPORT VENUE AS ITS TITLE, BUT HIS HELPED HIM WIN A NOBEL PRIZE | show 🗑
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| THE ASIAN TRAVELS OF 1944 NOBEL WINNER JOHANNES JENSEN GOT HIM DUBBED DENMARK'S THIS BRITISH WRITER WHO WON IN 1907 | show 🗑
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| show | GERTRUDE STEIN
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| show | SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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| show | LILLIAN HELLMAN
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| show | EVANGELIST
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| show | THOMAS HARDY
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| NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE DIED WHILE TRAVELING WITH THIS PRESIDENT, HIS CLOSE FRIEND | show 🗑
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| show | EDITH WHARTON
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| show | AYN RAND
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| show | EDITH WHARTON
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| show | GEORGE ELIOT
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| THE FIRST LINE OF HIS 1951 NOVEL MENTIONS A "LOUSY CHILDHOOD...AND ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP" | show 🗑
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| show | FANNIE FLAGG
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| IN HIS 8-VOL. "KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES", HE TOOK READERS THROUGH 7 GENERATIONS OF FAMILY HISTORY | show 🗑
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| show | GRAHAM GREENE
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| show | JAMES JONES
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| show | CLIVE CUSSLER
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| HIS PLAY "UNDER MILK WOOD", ABOUT THE INHABITANTS OF A WELSH SEASIDE TOWN, WAS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY | show 🗑
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| IN A SONNET, WORDSWORTH TOLD THIS "PARADISE LOST" POET "THOU SHOULD'ST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR" | show 🗑
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| IN 1922 VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE OF HIS "ULYSSES", "NEVER HAVE I READ SUCH TOSH" | show 🗑
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| HERMAN MELVILLE WROTE THAT THIS "IS A SWEET FLOWER; MAY IT FLOURISH IN EVERY HEDGE" | show 🗑
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| E.M. FORSTER SAID "MOST OF HUMAN LIFE HAS TO DISAPPEAR" FROM THE WORK OF THIS "PORTRAIT OF A LADY" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | BEN JONSON
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| HE MADE RECORDINGS READING FROM SOME OF HIS OWN WORKS, INCLUDING "POEMS & SONGS OF MIDDLE-EARTH" | show 🗑
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| HIS SHORT STORY "RAIN" WAS INSPIRED BY A MISSIONARY AND A PROSTITUTE WHO WERE PASSENGERS ABOARD HIS SHIP ON A TRIP TO SAMOA | show 🗑
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| IN HER "TWILIGHT" SERIES, ISABELLA SWAN FALLS FOR A ROMANTIC VAMPIRE | show 🗑
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| show | MAINE
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| "FOREVER IN ..." THIS COLOR IS ANN BRASHARES' THIRD SEQUEL TO "THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS" | show 🗑
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| show | IAN FLEMING
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| show | DUBLIN
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| WASHINGTON IRVING'S GRACIOUS HOME SUNNYSIDE OVERLOOKS THIS RIVER | show 🗑
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| WHEN THE PEOPLE OF NOHANT, FRANCE REFER TO "THE CHATEAU", THEY MEAN THE HOME OF THIS 19TH-C. WOMAN | show 🗑
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| YOU CAN VISIT THE HOME OF THIS POET AND BUDDY OF WORDSWORTH ON LIME STREET IN THE VILLAGE OF NETHER STOWE | show 🗑
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| show | ROALD DAHL
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| THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN ROWAN OAK PRIOR TO FAULKNER, WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TITLE WOMAN IN "A ROSE FOR..." HER | show 🗑
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| show | LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER
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| show | THOMAS HARDY
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| THIS LATE AUTHOR OF CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS LIKE "OSWALD'S TALE" HAD 6 WIVES, INCLUDING THE ONE HE STABBED | show 🗑
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| HE WROTE HIS STORIES ABOUT BERTIE WOOSTER & HIS MANSERVANT JEEVES OVER A PERIOD OF ABOUT 50 YEARS | show 🗑
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| show | FINNEGAN'S WAKE
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| CHARLES DICKENS GAVE THIS FAMILY 6 CHILDREN, BUT ONLY NAMED 4 OF THEM: MARTHA, BELINDA, PETER, AND TIM | show 🗑
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| show | HERCULE POIROT
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| show | ROCHESTER
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| IN THE 1930S, THIS CREATOR OF LORD PETER WIMSEY WROTE A LORD PETER PLAY CALLED "BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON" | show 🗑
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| show | RITA MAE BROWN
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| show | ANNE RICE
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| show | 1876
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| show | JOHN IRVING
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| KIM EDWARDS CALLED HER MEMORABLE FIRST NOVEL "THE MEMORY KEEPER'S ..." THIS | show 🗑
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| show | WILLIAM STYRON
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| show | HERMANN HESSE
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| show | FREDERICK FORSYTHE
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| THIS WESTERN AUTHOR GREW UP LISTENING TO TALES OF HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS SCALPED BY THE SIOUX | show 🗑
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| PUBLISHED IN 1724, HIS LAST MAJOR WORK OF FICTION WAS "ROXANA", ABOUT A COURTESAN, NOT A CASTAWAY | show 🗑
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| IN 1964'S "FROM DOON WITH DEATH", SHE INTRODUCED CHIEF INSPECTOR REGINALD WEXFORD | show 🗑
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| show | NEWBERRY
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| show | HARLEM
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| AUDIOTAPED INTERVIEWS OF THIS BLACK MUSLIM LEADER BECAME ALEX HALEY'S 1965 "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ..." HIM | show 🗑
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| IN 1975 AN OKLAHOMA CITY LIBRARY WAS NAMED FOR THIS "INVISIBLE MAN" AUTHOR WHO WAS BORN IN THE CITY IN 1914 | show 🗑
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| show | ALICE WALKER
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| show | MARGARET MITCHELL
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| show | HERMAN MELVILLE
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| show | MICHAEL CRICHTON
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| HIS FATHER DISAPPROVED OF HIS POETRY WRITING, SO CHILE'S NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASOALTO ADOPTED THIS PEN NAME | show 🗑
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| show | HERMAN MELVILLE
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| THE FIRST 2 PULITZERS FOR WRITING THESE, TO THE NY TRIBUNE AND LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL, DIDN'T NAME THE AUTHORS | show 🗑
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| CECIL BODKER IS THE ONLY DANE TO WIN THE COVETED AWARD NAMED FOR THIS COUNTRYMAN | show 🗑
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| show | PIG
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| ESTHER FORBES LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE IN THIS STATE AND SET HER NOVEL "JOHNNY TREMAIN" THERE | show 🗑
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| show | THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "GOOD NIGHT MOON" WAS A "COLORFUL" CHARACTER WHO KEPT PERISHABLE FOODS IN A WELL | show 🗑
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| IN 2003 HE HAD A BESTSELLER WITH "FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN" | show 🗑
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| show | RAY BRADBURY
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| JAMES MICHENER'S "CENTENNIAL" CENTERS ON A FICTIONAL TOWN IN THIS STATE | show 🗑
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| IN WILLA CATHER'S "O PIONEERS!", THE HEROINE ALEXANDRA BERGSON IS OF IMMIGRANT STOCK FROM THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| show | CORMAC MCCARTHY
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| show | MARGARET MITCHELL
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| AFTER WINNING AN OSCAR & A TONY, HE TRIED HIS HAND AT NOVELS LIKE "THE NAKED FACE" AND "THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT" | show 🗑
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| show | SHEL SILVERSTEIN
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| show | THOMAS TRYON
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| HIS "A MOVEABLE FEAST" CALLS FITZGERALD'S TALENT AS NATURAL AS THE PATTERN OF DUST ON A BUTTERFLY'S WINGS | show 🗑
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| show | TWAIN
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| show | THOMAS HARDY
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| show | KEATS
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| REVIEWING "AN IDEAL HUSBAND" GEORGE B. SHAW SAID THIS FELLOW IRISHMAN "HAS THE PROPERTY OF MAKING HIS CRITICS DULL" | show 🗑
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| A BOOK WITH A MIX OF VARIOUS AUTHORS WRITING ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS | show 🗑
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| show | L. FRANK BAUM
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| IN ADDITION TO THE "GOOSEBUMPS" SERIES, HE'S ALSO WRITTEN THE "FEAR STREET" SERIES FOR OLDER KIDS | show 🗑
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| AMONG HER FAMOUS CHARACTERS ARE RAMONA QUIMBY, AND HENRY HUGGINS | show 🗑
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| show | ROALD DAHL
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| show | JULIE ANDREWS
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| IN 2006 THIS FIRST LADY OF HIP-HOP CAME OUT WITH HER FIRST CHILDREN'S BOOK, "QUEEN OF THE SCENE" | show 🗑
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| "CZECH" OUT HER TENNIS MYSTERIES LIKE "KILLER INSTINCT" AND "THE TOTAL ZONE" BY THIS FORMER CHAMP | show 🗑
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| LONG BEFORE PLAYING TV'S DR. GREGORY HOUSE, HE PUBLISHED A SPY SPOOF CALLED "THE GUN SELLER" | show 🗑
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| show | HEMINGWAY
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| show | WILLA CATHER
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| show | STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
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| THIS AUTHOR'S WORK AS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE WITH PINKERTON LENT AUTHENTICITY TO "THE MALTESE FALCON" | show 🗑
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| HE WROTE COMIC BOOK STORIES FOR "CAPTAIN AMERICA" AND "CAPTAIN MARVEL" BEFORE HITTING IT BIG WITH "I, THE JURY" | show 🗑
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| IN THE 1930S, THIS AUTHOR OF "MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR" WAS A WRITER FOR COMEDIAN FRED ALLEN | show 🗑
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| CARL SAGAN WAS CO-AUTHOR OF THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC PAPER TO PREDICT THAT THIS WEATHER CONDITION WOULD FOLLOW ATOMIC WAR | show 🗑
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| MIDDLE NAME OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE | show 🗑
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| show | THOMAS MANN
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| show | C.S. LEWIS
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| show | COUPLET
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| IT'S MEXICAN AUTHOR LAURA ESQUIVEL'S SWEET TALE OF YOUNG TITA DE LA GARZA AND IT'S FULL OF RECIPES AND HOME REMEDIES | show 🗑
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| show | REMAINS OF THE DAY
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| IN 1966 THIS MAINE AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST SHORT STORY, "I WAS A TEENAGE GRAVE ROBBER" | show 🗑
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| show | KAFKA
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| INTRODUCED IN "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS", EASY RAWLINS IS THE HERO OF SEVERAL MYSTERIES BY THIS AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | FELIX SALTEN
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| show | JONATHAN SWIFT
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| show | VOLTAIRE
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| show | DANIEL DEFOE
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| show | D.H. LAWRENCE
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| show | THE END
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| IN MEG CABOT'S "VALENTINE PRINCESS", THIS GIRL'S GRANDMERE DISAPPROVES OF HER BOYFRIEND MICHAEL | show 🗑
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| show | APRILS
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| show | THE BOOK THIEF
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| THIS WORD THAT MEANS "WRITER" COMES FROM THE LATIN FOR "AGENT" | show 🗑
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| show | SALMAN RUSHDIE
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| show | LAURA INGALLS WILDER
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| "THE MISSION SONG" IS THE 20TH NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF SPY THRILLERS LIKE "TINKER, TAYLOR, SOLDIER, SPY" | show 🗑
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| show | RITA HAYWORTH
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| show | TASTE
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| show | AGATHA CHRISTIE
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| show | ANIIS NIN
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| show | FAYE KELLERMAN
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| "THE SEBASTAPOL SKETCHES", "THE COSSACKS", AND "THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH" | show 🗑
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| "GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER", "TIMEQUAKE", AND "MOTHER NIGHT" | show 🗑
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| show | STEINBECK
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| show | HOAGY CARMICHAEL
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| IN 1886 HE DECIDED TO CREATE A NEW KIND OF DETECTIVE WHO'D USE SCIENTIFIC METHODS RATHER THAN INTUITION | show 🗑
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| HE CREATED DOZENS OF MUSICAL WORKS AS WELL AS NOVELS LIKE "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" | show 🗑
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| HENRY CHINASKI WAS THE ALTER EGO OF THIS LATE HARD-LIVING CALIFORNIA POET | show 🗑
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| HIS MOTHER'S UNSOLVED MURDER WAS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CRIME AUTHOR'S 1996 NONFICTION WORK, "MY DARK PLACES" | show 🗑
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| SINCE THE 19TH-C. THE DESCENDANTS OF HENRY "JOLLY HENRY" LIVINGSTON HAVE CLAIMED HIM AS THE AUTHOR OF THIS CHRISTMAS POEM | show 🗑
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| IRVING STONE'S 1971 BESTSELLER, "THE PASSIONS OF THE MIND", WAS A FICTIONALIZED "NOVEL OF..." THIS MAN | show 🗑
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| WITH HIS "RABBIT AT REST", HE TURNED TO TODAY'S NEWS FOR HIS 2006 NOVEL "TERRORIST" | show 🗑
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| show | LOUIS L'AMOUR
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| show | THE STRANGER
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| THIS PSYCHOLOGIST AND HIS AUTHOR BROTHER HENRY WERE EACH THE SUBJECTS OF PRIZE-WINNING BIOS; ONE IN 1936, AND THE OTHER IN 1963 | show 🗑
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| show | HENRY JAMES
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| show | MARY SHELLEY
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| show | LEON URIS
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| IN 1830 BIOGRAPHER THOMAS MOORE BURNED THE MEMOIRS OF THIS ARISTOCRATIC BRIT TO PROTECT THE POET'S REPUTATION | show 🗑
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| THIS FICITONAL FEMALE SLEUTH AND DONALD BAIN ARE LISTED AS CO-AUTHORS ON THE "MURDER, SHE WROTE" SERIES | show 🗑
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| show | DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK
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| show | TOLSTOY
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| show | ASIMOV
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| show | EUDORA WELTY
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| LEMONY SNICKET SHOULD KNOW THIS NOVELIST PENNED "ADVERBS" AND "WATCH YOUR MOUTH" | show 🗑
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| ANCESTORS OF THIS ELUSIVE MODERN AUTHOR PROTESTED AFTER HAWTHORNE USED THEIR NAME IN "THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES" | show 🗑
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| show | D.H. LAWRENCE
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| show | SIX CHARACTERS
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| THE AUTHOR OF THE FIRST ENTIRELY SELF-WRITTEN SLAVE NARRATIVE WAS NAMED GUSTAVUS VASSA, FOR A KING OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| show | E.L. DOCTOROW
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| "WORN OUT" SURNAME OF "KING SOLOMON'S MINES" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | VIRGINIA WOOLF
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| show | ORWELL
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| show | LEWIS CARROLL
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| show | THE HOURS
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| show | THOMAS PYNCHON
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| PART ONE OF THIS CARSON MCCULLERS NOVEL SAYS FRANKIE "BELONGED TO NO CLUB AND WAS A MEMBER OF NOTHING IN THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | JOSEPH CONRAD
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| THIS THEOLOGIAN AUTHOR OF "SUMMA THEOLOGICA" WAS MADE A SAINT IN 1323 AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH IN 1567 | show 🗑
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| show | LARRY MCMURTRY
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| JOHN BERENDT, AUTHOR OF THIS 1994 BESTSELLER ABOUT SAVANNAH, WRITES THAT THE CITY'S 22 SQUARES ARE ITS TREASURES | show 🗑
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| show | HORATIO ALGER
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| LAST NAME OF THE "KINKY" AUTHOR OF "'SCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT" WHO RAN FOR TEXAS GOVERNOR IN 2006 | show 🗑
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| AMERICA'S FIRST LITERARY LION, THIS "HISTORY OF NEW YORK" AUTHOR MENTORED HAWTHORNE AND POE | show 🗑
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| AUTHOR OF "THE MAN", "THE WORD", AND "THE CELESTIAL BED" | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR'S LUST FOR BIOGRAPHY INFLUENCED HIM TO PEN WORKS ABOUT DARWIN AND VAN GOGH | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT
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| THIS "HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES" AUTHOR CO-WROTE 1974'S "THE MYTHIC IMAGE", WHICH EXPLORED ICONOGRAPHY | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR FAMOUSLY ESCAPED THE FIRESTORM FROM THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN BY HIDING IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE | show 🗑
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| show | CHEKOV
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| "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" IS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS LIMA-BORN WOMAN | show 🗑
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| IN ITALY IN OCT. 2005, THIS AUTHOR HELPED RE-CREATE THE EXPERIMENT WITH FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR WAS NICE ENOUGH TO REMIND US IN "BEING AND NOTHINGNESS" THAT HUMAN EFFORT IS USELESS | show 🗑
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| THIS LITERARY WHIZ' NAME IS SOMETIMES TRANSLITERATED FROM BENGALI AS RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA | show 🗑
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| show | AFRICA
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| HER DIARIES TRACE BACK TO ONE SHE BEGAN AS AN 11-YEAR-OLD ABOARD A SHIP IN 1914 | show 🗑
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| show | CLIVE BARKER
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| THIS AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL "FALCONER" WON A 1979 PULITZER PRIZE FOR SOME OF HIS SHORT STORIES | show 🗑
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| A 1981 THRILLER BY THIS AUTHOR OPENS WITH THE DISCOVERY OF 3 FACELESS CORPSES HERE IN THE TITLE SETTING, MOSCOW'S GORKY PARK | show 🗑
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| HE WROTE ABOUT GOPHER PRAIRIE IN 1920 | show 🗑
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| show | PADDY CHAYEFSKY
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| show | ZOLA
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| show | JANE AUSTEN
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| AUTHOR OF "HUMBOLDT'S GIFT" | show 🗑
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| THE COOKED UP "IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN" | show 🗑
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| NICODEMUS FRAPP IS A NARROW-MINDED EVANGELIST IN "TONO-BUNGAY", A 1909 NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE TIME MACHINE" | show 🗑
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| show | RICK WARREN
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| show | AL CAPP
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| HE WROTE, "CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN. NAKED PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY" | show 🗑
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| IN 1999 THIS "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS" AUTHOR WAS HONORED AS AN INDIANA LIVING LEGEND | show 🗑
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| show | MILTON FRIEDMAN
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| BRITISH AUTHOR OF "I, CLAUDIUS" | show 🗑
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| JAMES THURBER SHARED THIS MIDDLE NAME WITH THE 22ND AND 24TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. | show 🗑
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| show | UPTON SINCLAIR
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| A VICTORIAN AUTHOR WHO REWROTE SHAKESPEARE TO BE LESS OFFENSIVE LENT HIS NAME TO THIS WORD MEANING "TO CENSOR" | show 🗑
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| "HEIDI" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| TURGENEV REGARDED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE COSSACKS" AS THE "GREAT AUTHOR OF THE RUSSIAN LAND" | show 🗑
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| IN "EXEMPLARY TALES", A 1613 COLLECTION, HE CLAIMED TO BE THE FIRST TO WRITE SHORT STORIES IN CASTILIAN | show 🗑
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| show | GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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| AUTHOR OF "SHOW BOAT" | show 🗑
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| show | JONATHAN SWIFT
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| show | CARSON MCCULLERS
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| show | VENUS
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| WRITER OF "BLACK AND WHITE VENUS" POEMS | show 🗑
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| show | SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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| show | GARCIA LORCA
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| THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN WHAT WAS THEN DANZIG; "CAT AND MOUSE", "DOG YEARS", AND "THE TIN DRUM" MAKE UP HIS DANZIG TRILOGY | show 🗑
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| GERMAN AUTHOR OF "THE TIN DRUM" | show 🗑
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| show | CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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| show | LOUIS L'AMOUR
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| A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM THIS "WINESBURG, OHIO" AUTHOR HELPED HEMINGWAY MEET THE LITERARY LIGHTS OF EUROPE | show 🗑
|
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| JOHANN AND GOTTHOLD ARE 2 OF THE BUDDENBROOKS, THE TITLE FAMILY IN A NOVEL BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| IN 2004 THIS AUTHOR OF "TRUE WEST" RETURNED TO THE STAGE, ACTING IN "A NUMBER", A PLAY ABOUT HUMAN CLONING | show 🗑
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| show | GEORGE ORWELL
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|
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| ILLNESS PREVENTED HER FROM FINISHING "SANDITON"; "NORTHANGER ABBEY" WAS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY | show 🗑
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| IN 2004, THIS SCOTTISH AUTHOR OF "THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE" PUBLISHED "THE FINISHING SCHOOL" | show 🗑
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| ALICE WALKER HELPED REVIVE INTEREST IN THIS AUTHOR DUBBED "THE QUEEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE" | show 🗑
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| THEA KRONBORG IS A PREACHER'S DAUGHTER WHO BECOMES A SINGER IN HER NOVEL, "THE SONG OF THE LARK" | show 🗑
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| show | AGATHA CHRISTIE
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| A PLAY REHEARSAL IS INTERRUPTED BY STRANGERS AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS "SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR" | show 🗑
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| THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR'S WORKS INCLUDE THE 500,000-YEAR SPANNING "TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR" | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "DELIVERANCE" WAS A PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SC IN COLUMBIA | show 🗑
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| BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI BROUGHT THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL, "THE SHELTERING SKY", TO THE BIG SCREEN IN 1990 | show 🗑
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| show | TERRY MCMILLAN
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| show | WILKIE COLLINS
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| show | RACINE
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| show | CHAUCER
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| THIS AUTHOR CREATED GILBERTE SWANN, WHO ENTRANCES THE YOUNG MARCEL | show 🗑
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| show | POLAR EXPRESS
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| show | THACKERY
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| show | HAWTHORNE
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| show | CYBERSPACE
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|
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| LITERALLY, "BLANK DOCUMENT", IT'S THE 2-WORD FRENCH TERM FOR UNCONDITIONAL AUTHORITY | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS" SPENT HIS LAST YEARS WITH THE FORMER PROPRIETRESS OF A FLORIDA BROTHEL | show 🗑
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| show | EDGAR LEE MASTERS
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| BORN IN 1778, HE MUST HAVE PICKED UP SOME DANDY HABITS AT ETON, AS HE WENT ON TO BE QUITE THE FASHION AUTHORITY | show 🗑
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| show | SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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| show | DOT RICHARDSON
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| show | SIR WALTER SCOTT
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| show | GEORGE SAND
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| HIS FATHER EMMET, A COUNTRY DOCTOR, GAVE HIM MUCH OF THE BACKGROUND FOR DR. KENNICOTT IN HIS NOVEL, "MAIN STREET" | show 🗑
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| KENTUCKY'S FIRST GOVERNOR, ISAAC SHELBY, WAS A DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THIS "CIVIL WAR : A NARRATIVE" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | KIERKEGAARD
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| PAULINE REAGE IS CREDITED AS THE ONCE-ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THIS STEAMY "STORY OF ..." | show 🗑
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| show | HEMINGWAY
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| SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POET DELMORE SCHWARTZ INSPIRED THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL "HUMBOLDT'S GIFT" | show 🗑
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| show | SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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|
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| THIS AUTHOR WHO SERVED IN THE NEW HEBRIDES IN WWII TRANSFORMED THE VANUATAN ISLAND OF UNBOI INTO HIS BALI HAI | show 🗑
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| show | TONI MORRISON
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|
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| show | VOLTAIRE
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|
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| THIS WAS SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT LUDLUM
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|
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| BOOKS LIKE "LUST FOR LIFE" EARNED HIM THE NICKNAME "KING OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL" | show 🗑
|
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| show | THOMAS MANN
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|
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| show | HENRY JAMES
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|
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| HE CREATED THE NADSAT LANGUAGE FOR HIS NOVEL "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" | show 🗑
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| THIS 19TH-C. ENGLISH AUTHOR ALSO WROTE THE BOOKS "CURIOSA MATHEMATICA" AND "SYMBOLIC LOGIC" | show 🗑
|
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| THIS REPUTED "NATURE OF MAN" AUTHOR WAS BORN ON THE GREEK ISLAND OF COS AROUND 460 B.C. | show 🗑
|
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| MAIDEN NAME OF MARY DODGE | show 🗑
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| MAIDEN NAME OF ADELA ST. JOHNS | show 🗑
|
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| show | ROBERTS
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|
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| show | PHILIP ROTH
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|
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| IN BOOK 10, "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE", THIS AUTHOR'S BAUDELAIRE SIBLINGS ARE AT IT AGAIN | show 🗑
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| show | JOE KLEIN
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|
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| THIS TRUMP FAMILY MINISTER AND AUTHOR OF "THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING" PERFORMED THE DONALD'S WEDDING TO IVANA | show 🗑
|
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| HE WROTE "THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 2002 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS PUBLISHED A BOOK CALLED "WHY...MATTERS", ABOUT THIS GREAT ANTI-TOTALITARIAN WRITER | show 🗑
|
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| show | ARTHUR HAILEY
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|
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| BORN IN BUDAPEST, HE'S BEST KNOWN FOR HIS 1940 NOVEL "DARKNESS AT NOON" | show 🗑
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| show | ARTHUR RIMBAUD
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| show | ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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|
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| show | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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|
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| show | CHARLES GOREN
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|
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| ORLANDO IS THE TITLE HERO/HEROINE OF THIS AUTHOR'S 1928 TIME-TRAVELING, GENDER-BENDING NOVEL | show 🗑
|
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| show | "THE RAVEN" POE
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|
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| POEM & POET: "LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | "DOVER BEACH" ARNOLD
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|
||||
| HE WROTE THE SOMEWHAT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL 1858 PLAY "LE FILS NATUREL", OR "THE NATURAL SON" | show 🗑
|
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| show | JAMES JOYCE
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|
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| IN 1810, IN ATHENS, THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE, "MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE ART, GIVE, OH, GIVE ME BACK MY HEART" | show 🗑
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| show | C.S. LEWIS
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|
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| show | BERNARD MALAMUD
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|
||||
| PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF "A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | KENNETH GRAHAME
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|
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| STARTING IN 1952 WITH "DAVID STARR, SPACE RANGER", THIS PROLIFIC AUTHOR WROTE MANY SCI-FI NOVELS UNDER THE NAME PAUL FRENCH | show 🗑
|
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| show | TOM WOLFE
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|
||||
| show | MAHFOUZ
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|
||||
| show | NORWAY
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|
||||
| NOBEL PRIZE WINNER HALLDOR LAXNESS IS FROM HERE | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS VIRGINIA WOOLF-INSPIRED NOVEL EARNED MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM THE 1999 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION | show 🗑
|
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| show | ANGELS AND DEMONS
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|
||||
| JOHN KNOWLES' EXPERIENCES AT PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY INSPIRED THIS 1960 NOVEL SET AT A PREP SCHOOL DURING WWII | show 🗑
|
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| show | STEINBECK
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|
||||
| show | ROBERT HOWARD
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|
||||
| show | THOMAS MANN
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|
||||
| "MARAT/SADE" IS THE MOST FAMOUS PLAY BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE BABY-SITTER'S CLUB
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|
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| COMEDIAN-AUTHOR OF "BRAIN DROPPINGS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE CALLS THE MOMENT WHEN SOCIAL PHENOMENA REACH CRITICAL MASS "THE TIPPING POINT" | show 🗑
|
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| THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING RODIN'S MONUMENT TO THIS FRENCH AUTHOR WAS A REAL "HUMAN COMEDY" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | IAN McEWAN
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|
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| IN THIS RUSSIAN-AMERICAN'S "PALE FIRE", JOHN SHADE IS THE LATE AUTHOR OF A 999-LINE POEM | show 🗑
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| WRITER PHILIP QUARLES IN "POINT COUNTER POINT" IS A SELF-PORTRAIT BY THIS AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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|
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| show | SHOLOM ALEICHEM
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|
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| show | RAY BRADBURY
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| "ACCORDING TO..." THIS AUTHOR, "THE DELAWARE'S THEMSELVES ACKNOWLEDGE THE ROYALTY OF THE MOHICANS" | show 🗑
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| show | MARK TWAIN
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|
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| show | E.T.A. HOFFMANN
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|
||||
| THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS AUTHOR'S "MAGISTER LUDI" MEANS, "THE GLASS BEAD GAME" | show 🗑
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| show | GARCIA LORCA
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|
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| A WOMAN RAISED IN GREENLAND IS AN EXPERT ON ALL THINGS ICY IN THIS 1993 NOVEL BY DANISH AUTHOR PETER HOEG | show 🗑
|
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| THIS "BEN-HUR" AUTHOR WAS REMOVED FROM COMMAND AND REINSTATED TWICE | show 🗑
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| WRITING ABOUT THIS ANCIENT AUTHOR, KEATS MUSED, "THERE IS A TRIPLE SIGHT IN BLINDNESS KEEN" | show 🗑
|
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| show | RABELAIS
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|
||||
| show | WALLY LAMB
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|
||||
| THERE'S NO DIALOGUE IN THIS AUTHOR'S NOVEL "THE PAINTED BIRD" | show 🗑
|
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| AUTHOR OF "THE DAY OF THE LOCUST" | show 🗑
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| IN "NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES" THIS AUTHOR WROTE, "I BELIEVE THERE IS AN UNSEEN WORLD ALL AROUND US" | show 🗑
|
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| THE AVANT-GARDE AUTHOR OF "THREE LIVES", HER HOME WAS A SALON FOR EMERGING ARTISTS SUCH AS PICASSO & BRAQUE | show 🗑
|
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| THERE ARE MUSEUMS DEVOTED TO THIS WRITER IN NAIROBI, KENYA AND IN RUNGSTEDLUND, DENMARK | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THOMAS MANN
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|
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| show | SHERLOCK HOLMES
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|
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| IN 1945 THIS "SPACE ODYSSEY" AUTHOR SUGGESTED A SPACE-BASED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | show 🗑
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| IN A 1970 BOOK THIS AUTHOR WROTE, "THE GULL SEES FARTHEST WHO SEES HIGHEST" | show 🗑
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| IN 1882, AT AGE 16, HE FOUND WORK AS SUB-EDITOR OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE IN LAHORE, INDIA | show 🗑
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| show | ITALY
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| PUBLISHED IN 1969, "SETTING FREE THE BEARS" WAS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | CARSON MCCULLERS
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| IN A POEM IN THIS 1855 COLLECTION, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | show 🗑
|
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| THE 1874 NOVEL "HIS NATURAL LIFE" BY THIS AUSSIE AUTHOR NAMED MARCUS WAS STILL A GOOD READ IN 2001 | show 🗑
|
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| POPULAR BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "RAMONA THE PEST" AND "THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE" | show 🗑
|
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| AUTHOR OF "THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE" | show 🗑
|
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| SHERWOOD ANDERSON WAS THE MODEL FOR DAWSON FAIRCHILD IN "MOSQUITOES", A 1927 NOVEL BY THIS MISSISSIPPI AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | HERMAN MELVILLE
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| THE INITIALS OF THIS BRITISH AUTHOR OF "CRASH" AND "MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE" STAND FOR JAMES GRAHAM | show 🗑
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| NATIVE LAND OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ | show 🗑
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| show | INDIA
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| show | CANADA
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||||
| show | GWENDOLYN BROOKS
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| LIKE GERTRUDE IN THIS AUTHOR'S "THE EUROPEANS", GO AHEAD AND MARRY A RELATIVE | show 🗑
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| A 1927 VISIT TO ETRUSCAN SITES INSPIRED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE PLUMED SERPENT" TO WRITE "ETRUSCAN PIECES" | show 🗑
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| THIS BRONTE SISTER BASED THE DEBAUCHED HUNTINGDON IN "THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL" ON HER BROTHER BRANWELL | show 🗑
|
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| show | WOMEN IN LOVE
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|
||||
| show | JOHN DOS PASSOS
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|
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| show | WOLLSTONECRAFT
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| AUTHOR OF "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | MAIL
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|
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| show | CAMUS
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||||
| show | JOSEPH CONRAD
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|
||||
| "DECK THE HALLS", A CHRISTMAS THRILLER, WAS A JOINT EFFORT BY CAROL HIGGINS CLARK AND THIS AUTHOR, HER MOM | show 🗑
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| A SLEUTH NAMED KINSEY MILLHONE IS THE HEROINE OF HER ALPHABET MYSTERIES | show 🗑
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| IN 1949 THIS NOBEL LAUREATE FOUNDED WELCOME HOUSE, AN ADOPTION AGENCY SPECIALIZING IN ASIAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN | show 🗑
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| show | IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE
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| AUTHOR OF "AMELIE" AND "TOM JONES" | show 🗑
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| show | ISABEL ALLENDE
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||||
| show | EDITH WHARTON
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|
||||
| show | JOHN BUNYAN
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||||
| THE AUTHOR OF "A BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM", THIS CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1986 | show 🗑
|
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| THIS RUSSIAN POET & AUTHOR OF THE DRAMA "BORIS GODUNOV" DIED FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED IN A DUEL IN 1837 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FLAUBERT
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|
||||
| show | MAURICE SENDAK
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||||
| JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS' BOOK OF THIS CHARACTER'S SONGS AND SAYINGS WAS SUBTITLED "LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CUBA
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| THIS AUTHOR'S BESTSELLER "PRESUMED INNOCENT" BECAME A MOVIE STARRING HARRISON FORD | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FROST
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|
||||
| "CALLED BACK" IS THE EPITAPH ON THIS POET'S AMHERST GRAVE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FAULKNER
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|
||||
| show | JOHN HERSEY
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|
||||
| show | ALLEN DRURY
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|
||||
| show | GOGOL
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|
||||
| show | DASHIELL HAMMETT
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|
||||
| show | SARA PARETSKY
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|
||||
| show | RAYMOND CHANDLER
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||||
| CREATOR OF THE SLEUTH BISHOP BLACKIE RYAN | show 🗑
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||||
| show | GEORGE ELIOT
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|
||||
| show | ALDUS HUXLEY
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|
||||
| MAHICANS LIVED ALONG THE HUDSON; MOHEGANS LIVED IN CONNECTICUT; MOHICANS WERE CREATED BY THIS AUTHOR | show 🗑
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||||
| LAST NAME OF THE ANGELA OF "ANGELA'S ASHES" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JOHN UPDIKE
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|
||||
| show | ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
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|
||||
| THIS POET'S 1961 WORK "BABI YAR" HELPED MAKE HIM AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY | show 🗑
|
||||
| 1926'S "RED CAVALRY" IS A FAMOUS COLLECTION OF TALES BY THIS "TOWER"ING WRITER | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | DOSTOEVSKY
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|
||||
| show | RICHARD WRIGHT
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|
||||
| CHIEF CONANCHET IS A MAJOR CHARACTER IN "THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH", AN 1829 NOVEL BY THIS AMERICAN AUTHOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| HIGHLAND RAIDERS KNOWN AS THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST WREAK HAVOC IN "THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE" BY THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| "CTHULHU 2000" IS A 1999 ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES BASED ON THIS AUTHOR'S WORKS | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR OF THE PLAY "THE WIDOW'S TEARS" ALSO DID A HOMER TRANSLATION THAT BLEW JOHN KEATS AWAY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SUSAN FALUDI
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|
||||
| show | SHELBY FOOTE
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|
||||
| AUTHOR OF "INFINITE JEST" | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR AND HIS LOOSE LIFESTYLE WERE THE SUBJECT OF TOM WOLFE'S "THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST" | show 🗑
|
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| show | BANANA
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| JESUS ENTRUSTED MARY TO THE "BELOVED DISCIPLE", TRADITIONALLY THIS AUTHOR OF THE GOSPEL THAT TELLS THE STORY | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE GRASS HARP" WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1924 | show 🗑
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| PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "AFRICAN GAME TRAILS" | show 🗑
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| PRESIDENTIAL AUTHOR OF "WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?" | show 🗑
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| WHEN NORMAN MAILER RAN FOR NYC MAYOR IN'69, HIS RUNNING MATE WAS THIS "GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| BEST-KNOWN FOR THER BOOKS ABOUT CHINA, SHE PUBLISHED HER "AMERICAN TRIPTYCH" AS JOHN SEDGES | show 🗑
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| "THE HELLBOUND HEART", "RAWHEAD REX", AND "THE BOOKS OF BLOOD" | show 🗑
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| IN 1971 THIS HERMAN WOUK NOVEL BREEZED UP THE BESTSELLER LISTS | show 🗑
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| show | P.G. WODEHOUSE
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| THIS "VANITY FAIR" AUTHOR LIKED TO ASSUME THE NAME GEORGE SAVAGE FITZ-BOODLE, LISTING HIME AS THE EDITOR OF "BARRY LYNDON" | show 🗑
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| AN AUTHOR'S LAST ITALIAN HOLIDAY IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS THOMAS MANN NOVELLA | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "NO EXIT" SAID NO TO A NOBEL PRIZE IN 1964 | show 🗑
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| 1996 BESTSELLERS BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "VAMPIRE BREATH" AND "ATTACK OF THE JACK-O-LANTERNS" | show 🗑
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| AUTHOR OF "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS" | show 🗑
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| MEN OF LETTERS: HOWARD PHILLIPS | show 🗑
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| LONGFELLOW'S GLOWING REVIEW OF THIS AUTHOR'S "TWICE-TOLD TALES" LED TO A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP | show 🗑
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| HONEST SELF-ANALYSIS DISTINGUISHED THE "CONFESSIONS" OF THIS SWISS-FRENCH AUTHOR WHO DIED IN 1778 | show 🗑
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| show | HOOVER
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| 10 CHARACTERS TELL 10 STORIES EACH OVER 10 DAYS IN HIS "DECAMERON" | show 🗑
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| show | GARCIA LORCA
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| "LES CHOUANS" IN 1829 WAS THE FIRST NOVEL THIS "LA COMEDIE HUMAINE" AUTHOR PUBLISHED UNDER HIS OWN NAME | show 🗑
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| show | P.D. JAMES
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| show | OSCAR WILDE
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "FLUSH" IS A WHIMSICAL MEMOIR BY THIS "SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE" AUTHOR'S DOG | show 🗑
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| show | CERVANTES
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| THE NAME OF A STALLONE TITLE CHARACTER ECHOES THIS 19TH-C. FRENCH AUTHOR OF "A SEASON IN HELL" | show 🗑
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| AUTHOR WHO WROTE, "WHAT WAS IT THAT SO UNNERVED ME IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE HOUSE OF USHER?" | show 🗑
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| show | ALDUS HUXLEY
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| show | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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| IN 1998 ISRAEL CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND THIS LEON URIS BOOK CELEBRATED ITS 40TH | show 🗑
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| IN 1997 THIS AUTHOR RETURNED TO HIS ROOTS WITH "WOBEGON BOY" | show 🗑
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| show | ROSENBERGS
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| show | OSCAR WILDE
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| HE DEDICATED HIS NOVEL "MYRA BRECKENRIDGE" TO NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD | show 🗑
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| IN 1997 HE PUBLISHED "COMANCHE MOON" A PREQUEL TO HIS "LONESOME DOVE" | show 🗑
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| NOVELS BY THIS POLITICAL CONSERVATIVE INCLUDE "SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR" AND "MARCO POLO, IF YOU CAN" | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT PARKER
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| IN 1980 THIS AUTHOR HAD HIS AGENT SMILEY, FACE HIS KGB NEMESIS, KARLA | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE METAMORPHOSIS" FELT LIKE "A MISERABLE SPECIMEN" NEXT TO HIS POWERFUL FATHER | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "SOUL ON ICE" WAS MINISTER OF INFORMATION FOR THE BLACK PANTHERS IN THE 1960S | show 🗑
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| show | DICK FRANCIS
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| IN 1998 JILL PATON WALSH FINISHED THIS LATE AUTHOR'S 12 LORD PETER WIMSEY NOVEL | show 🗑
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| show | ROBIN COOK
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| THIS "KISS THE GIRLS" AUTHOR ALSO WROTE THE JINGLE "I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP, I'M A TOYS 'R' US KID" | show 🗑
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| STEPHEN KING PUBLISHED THE STORIES "RAGE", "THE LONG WALK", AND "THE RUNNING MAN" UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM | show 🗑
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| STEPHEN KING'S 1981 OVERVIEW OF THE HORROR GENRE SHARES ITS NAME WITH THIS SAINT-SAENS "DANCE" | show 🗑
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| show | CLIVE BARKER
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| show | O. HENRY
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| show | PABLO NERUDA
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| "THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES" IS A CLASSIC WORK ON MYTHOLOGY BY THIS AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| IN 1997 THE WORLD SAID SAYONARA TO THIS AUTHOR OF "SAYONARA" | show 🗑
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| show | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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| CARLOS FUENTES, AUTHOR OF "THE OLD GRINGO", IS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S LEADING NOVELISTS | show 🗑
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| show | JACK KEROUAC
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| LITERARY SELF-PORTRAIT: ESTHER GREENWOOD | show 🗑
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| THIS PROLIFIC AUTHOR'S "FOUNDATION TRILOGY" IS ONE OF THE BEST-LOVED WORKS OF SCIENCE FICTION | show 🗑
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| show | NIETZSCHE
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| show | O. HENRY
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| OF THIS AUTHOR OF "THE NECKLACE", FLAUBERT SAID, "HE'S MY DISCIPLE AND I LOVE HIM LIKE A SON" | show 🗑
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| FRENCH AUTHOR OF 1795'S "PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM"...OUCH! | show 🗑
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| show | JEREMIAH
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| AUTHOR ERICH SEGAL SAYS OLIVER BARRETT IV IN THIS 1970 NOVEL WAS PARTLY BASED ON AL GORE | show 🗑
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| HE DISCUSSED ALI V. FOREMAN IN HIS BOOK, "THE FIGHT", AND IN THE 1996 FILM, "WHEN WE WERE KINGS" | show 🗑
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| IN "STEAMBATH" THIS AUTHOR MADE GOD A STEAM ROOM ATTENDANT | show 🗑
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| show | NORMAN MAILER
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| "THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET" IS A COLLECTION OF THIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S ESSAYS | show 🗑
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| show | DAMON RUNYON
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| show | MARGARET ATWOOD
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| show | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
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| THIS "RISING SUN" AUTHOR TOOK TO THE SKIES WITH "AIRFRAME", A SUSPENSE NOVEL | show 🗑
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| show | COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH
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| show | KEN FOLLETT
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| show | SARA PARETSKY
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| show | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
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| AUTHOR OF THE "GOOSEBUMPS" SERIES | show 🗑
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| SHE FED US "DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT" IN 1982 AND GAVE US "BREATHING LESSONS" IN 1988 | show 🗑
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| THIS FLORENTINE AUTHOR OF "IL PRINCIPE" ALSO WROTE A HISTORY OF FLORENCE | show 🗑
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| show | PUSHKIN PRIZE
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| show | L'CHAIM
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| ENID BAGNOLD WROTE THIS CLASSIC TALE OF A YOUNG EQUESTRIAN AND THE HORSE SHE WINS IN A RAFFLE | show 🗑
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| show | STEPHEN KING
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| show | DEAN KOONTZ
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| FROM 1903 TO 1905, AMERICAN AUTHOR WINSTON CHURCHILL SERVED IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THIS "GRANITE" STATE | show 🗑
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| show | GEORGE ELIOT
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| DAVID FOSTER WALLACE IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS 1996 COMIC NOVEL WHOSE TITLE MIGHT REFER TO ITS VAST LENGTH | show 🗑
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| show | JOHN BUNYAN
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| show | CAMUS
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| THE LAST NAME OF "ISLAND IN THE SUN" AUTHOR ALEC AND "THE LOVED ONE" AUTHOR EVELYN | show 🗑
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| show | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
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| IN HIS REVISON OF "THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE", E.B. WHITE RECALLED THE CAREFULLY EDGED MOUSTACHE OF THIS CO-AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | GORE VIDAL
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| show | HEMINGWAY
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| HE WROTE HIS 1982 NOVEL "THE RUNNING MAN" UNDER THE PSEUDONYM RICHARD BACHMAN | show 🗑
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| show | JOHN LE CARRE
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES" WROTE MYSTERY NOVELS UNDER THE PEN NAME ALAN PAYNE | show 🗑
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| show | FAULKNER
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| IN 1996 THIS "EXORCIST" AUTHOR PUBLISHED "DEMONS FIVE, EXORCISTS NOTHING: A FABLE" | show 🗑
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| IN 1990'S "DARKNESS VISIBLE", THIS "SOPHIE'S CHOICE" AUTHOR WROTE OF HIS STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION | show 🗑
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| show | HEMINGWAY
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| show | FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC
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| show | SMILLA
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| THE BRITISH BORN AND BRED EVELYN WAUGH SET THIS SATIRICAL 1948 NOVEL IN CALIFORNIA | show 🗑
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| ARKADY RENKO, A MOSCOW INVESTIGATOR IN THIS AUTHOR'S "GORKY PARK" BECOMES A SEAMAN IN "POLAR STAR" | show 🗑
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| show | CLIVE CUSSLER
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| show | ROBERT JAMES WALLER
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| show | CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
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| IN 1996 THIS AUTHOR OF "TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY" SPUN A NEW STORY, "THE TAILOR OF PANAMA" | show 🗑
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| SHORT STORY WRITER HECTOR HUGH MUNRO TOOK THIS PSEUDONYM FORM OMAR KHAYYAM'S "RUBAIYAT" | show 🗑
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| MARLOW, AN ADVENTURER, APPEARS IN SEVERAL WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR, INCLUDING "LORD JIM" | show 🗑
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| show | THOMAS PAINE
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| show | A GOOD MAN
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| THIS ENGLISH POET'S "ODE ON INDOLENCE" WASN'T PUBLISHED UNTIL AFTER HIS DEATH | show 🗑
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| SHE PUBLISHED "EXIT TO EDEN" UNDER THE PEN NAME ANNE RAMPLING | show 🗑
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| show | MELVILLE
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| show | WRIGHT BROTHERS
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| THIS MASTER OF THE ESPIONAGE THRILLER HAS WRITTEN 3 BOOKS ABOUT TOP ASSASSIN JASON BOURNE | show 🗑
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| SHE GAVE HER SHARE OF THE FILM RIGHTS TO "WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION" TO HER DAUGHTER ROSALIND | show 🗑
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| show | BOOTH TARKINGTON
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| A ROYAL HORSE GUARD DURING WWII, HE "REVISITED" THE WAR IN HIS "SWORD OF HONOUR" TRILOGY | show 🗑
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| RUDYARD KIPLING WROTE "THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY" AND HE CREATED HOLLY GOLIGHTLY | show 🗑
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| show | MOO
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| show | JOYCE CAROL OATES
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| show | LAO-TZU
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| show | RUDYARD KIPLING
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| show | KURT VONNEGUT, JR
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| HIS TRAVELS TO EUROPE ABOARD THE STEAMSHIP QUAKER CITY WERE DOCUMENTED IN "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD" | show 🗑
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| IN 1928 ELIE WIESEL WAS BORN IN SIGHET, A TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGE IN THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET" WAS THE OLDER BROTHER OF ZOOLOGIST & WRITER GERALD DURRELL | show 🗑
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| show | THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
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| show | THEODORE DREISER
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| show | AGATHA CHRISTIE
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| show | MAEVE BINCHY
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| THIS RADIO HOST AND AUTHOR OF "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?" EARNED HER DOCTORATE DEGREE IN PHYSIOLOGY | show 🗑
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| show | CAMILLE PAGLIA
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| show | EDITH WHARTON
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| show | EMILE ZOLA
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| show | TEAPOT DOME
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| THE FIRST LINE OF A JANE AUSTEN NOVEL TELLS US THIS HEROINE IS "HANDSOME, CLEVER, AND RICH" | show 🗑
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| FIRST INITIAL SHARED BY AUTHOR RIDER HAGGARD AND GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF | show 🗑
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| show | VIRGIL
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| show | JULES VERNE
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| show | SHOLOM ALEICHEM
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| show | HERMAN HESSE
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| show | CHAUCER
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| show | DANTE ALIGHIERI
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| "THE CHRONICLER OF MAIN STREET" | show 🗑
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| show | MARK TWAIN
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| show | SOPHOCLES
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| show | DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK
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| show | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
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| HIS 1996 BOOK "GOLF DREAMS: WRITINGS ON GOLF", INCLUDES EXCERPTS FROM HIS "RABBIT" NOVELS | show 🗑
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| show | ED MCBAIN
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| show | DOSTOEVSKY
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| IN 1982, A BUST OF THIS AUTHOR WAS UNVEILED IN DUBLIN TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH | show 🗑
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| show | FITZGERALD
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| show | ERICA JONG
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| "TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS" WAS ONE OF THIS WESTERN AUTHOR'S SACKETT SAGAS | show 🗑
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| show | BRAM STOKER
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| AFTER MOVING TO EUROPE, THIS NEW YORKER WROTE HIS 1890 NOVEL "THE TRAGIC MUSE" ABOUT THE ART WORLD OF EUROPE | show 🗑
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| SINCLAIR LEWIS COULD HAVE CALLED THIS 1925 NOVEL "MARTIN"; THAT'S THE TITLE PHYSICIAN'S FIRST NAME | show 🗑
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| show | BEATRIX POTTER
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| THIS AUTHOR FAMOUS FOR HER MARY POPPINS BOOKS PASSED AWAY IN 1996 | show 🗑
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| WHILE ABELARD WAS WOOING HELOISE IN EUROPE, THIS RUBAIYAT AUTHOR WAS WRITING IN THE MIDEAST | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR'S "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER" IS SET ON AN AFRICAN SAFARI | show 🗑
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| ARTHUR C. CLARKE WROTE THIS 1968 SCI-FI NOVEL IN COLLABORATION WITH DIRECTOR STANLY KUBRICK | show 🗑
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| show | STANLEY KUBRICK
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| LT. JOE LEAPHORN AND NAVAJO POLICEMAN JIM CHEE RETURN IN THIS AUTHOR'S 1996 MYSTERY "THE FALLEN MAN" | show 🗑
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| LIKE HIS FATHER'S "THE KILLER ANGELS", JEFF SHAARA'S "GODS AND GENERALS" IS SET DURING THIS WAR | show 🗑
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| show | BLACK SUNDAY
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| AUTHOR OF "THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" | show 🗑
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| 1996'S "FALLING UP" IS THE FIRST NEW VERSE COLLECTION IN 15 YEARS BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE GIVING TREE" | show 🗑
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| show | SHEL SILVERSTEIN
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| show | REMEMBRANCE
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| THE ELEGANT ST. GREGORY IS THE SETTING FOR THIS 1965 ARTHUR HAILEY BESTSELLER | show 🗑
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| USING THEIR FIRST NAMES, IT'S THE PEN NAME OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM WHO WROTE "DECEPTIONS" AND "POT OF GOLD" | show 🗑
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| HER RECENTLY DISCOVERED WORK "LOST LAYSEN" WAS PUBLISHED IN 1996, THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF "GONE WITH THE WIND" | show 🗑
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| ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BASED HIS VERSE PLAY "J.B" ON THIS BOOK OF THE BIBLE | show 🗑
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| show | JOHN MORTIMER
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| EDDIE RICKENBACKER SCATTERED THIS "GUYS & DOLLS" AUTHOR'S ASHES OVER BROADWAY | show 🗑
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| THE HERO OF THIS PRIME MINISTER'S 1846 NOVEL "CONINGSBY", IS THE ORPHANED GRANDSON OF A LORD | show 🗑
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| TOLSTOY FOUGHT IN THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL DURING THIS WAR, WHICH INSPIRED HIS "SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES" | show 🗑
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| IN 1930, 2 YEARS AFTER DIVORCING ARCHIBALD CHRISTIE, SHE MARRIED ARCHAEOLOGIST MAX MALLOWAN | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "SHE" WAS AN ADVISOR TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ON AGRICULTURE | show 🗑
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| NIGERIAN AUTHOR KEN SARO-WIWA, WHO PROTESTED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE BY THIS INDUSTRY, WAS HANGED IN 1995 | show 🗑
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| THIS "THE CRADLE WILL FALL" AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK WAS A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON | show 🗑
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| show | PRIMARY COLORS
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| THIS POET SAID OF EZRA POUND, "mr pound is humane, but not human" | show 🗑
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| show | EDITH SITWELL
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| show | KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
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| SHE WAS FAMOUS FOR HER MYSTERY NOVELS FEATURING LORD PETER WIMSEY | show 🗑
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| show | MARY MCCARTHY
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| show | KIPLING
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| show | GODWIN
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| show | POE
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| show | HEMINGWAY
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| show | MATTHEW
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| show | THE CITADEL
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| show | PHILIP ROTH
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| show | PAT CONROY
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| "BUDDENBROOKS" WAS THE FIRST IMPORTANT NOVEL BY THIS 20TH-C. GERMAN AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | UPTON SINCLAIR
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| ZBIGNIEW HERBERT WRITES POEMS, PLAYS, AND ESSAYS IN THIS, HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE | show 🗑
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| ABEL'S DAUGHTER BECOMES VP OF THE UNITED STATES IN "THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER", THIS EX-MP'S SEQUEL TO "KANE AND ABEL" | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR DREW ON HIS EXPERIENCES AS CAPTAIN OF A WEST AFRICAN RIVER STEAMER FOR "HEART OF DARKNESS" | show 🗑
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| "BATTER MY HEART" IS ONE OF THE BEST'KNOWN "HOLY SONNETS" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "DEATH, BE NOT PROUD" | show 🗑
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| show | CLIFFORD IRVING
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| THIS NOVELIST'S MOTHER, FRANCIS TROLLOPE, WROTE A DEROGATORY BOOK ABOUT AMERICAN MANNERS IN 1832 | show 🗑
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| show | H. RIDER HAGGARD
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| W.M. THACKERAY QUARRELED WITH THIS AUTHOR IN THE SO-CALLED GARRICK CLUB AFFAIR | show 🗑
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| "A TANGLED SKEIN" WAS THIS AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL TITLE FOR "A STUDY IN SCARLET" | show 🗑
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| WILLA CATHER'S "DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP" IS SET IN THIS STATE | show 🗑
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| NORDHOFF AND HALL'S 1934 "MEN AGAINST THE SEA", WAS A SEQUEL TO THIS | show 🗑
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| show | CHESHIRE CAT
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| THIS AUTHOR BASED THE CHARACTER PHILBOYD STUDGE IN "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS" ON HIMSELF | show 🗑
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| show | JACQUELINE SUSANN
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| THE RISE TO POWER OF THE RUTHLESS JULIAN SOREL IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS COLORFUL STENDHAL BOOK | show 🗑
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| show | O PIONEERS
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| "THE PYGMIES" AND "THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS" ARE 2 OF HIS "TANGLEWOOD TALES" | show 🗑
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| HE SAID HIS 1994 NOVEL "A SON OF THE CIRCUS" "ISN'T ABOUT INDIA. I DON'T KNOW INDIA. I WAS THERE ONLY ONCE" | show 🗑
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| show | JOYCE CAROL OATES
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| A DEGENERATE BOOTLEGGER NAMED POPEYE ABDUCTS COLLEGE COED TEMPLE DRAKE IN HIS 1931 NOVEL "SANCTUARY" | show 🗑
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| show | SAN FRANCISCO
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| ALLAN DRURY WON A 1960 PULITZER PRIZE FOR THIS NOVEL ABOUT THE SEAMY UNDERSIDE OF CONGRESS | show 🗑
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| show | CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
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| show | LEWIS CARROLL
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| show | CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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| show | ALDUS HUXLEY
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| A COLLECTOR OF HIS NOVELS WOULD OWN COPIES OF "THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN" AND "THE COLLECTOR" | show 🗑
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| SHE WAS ONLY 19 WHEN SHE PUBLISHED HER FIRST NOVEL, "THE OUTSIDERS" IN 1967 | show 🗑
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| show | POLLYANNA
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| THIS MISSISSIPPI-BORN AUTHOR RECEIVED A 1973 PULITZER FOR "THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER" | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE" COULD CELEBRATE HIS NOVEMBER 11 BIRTHDAY WITH JONATHAN WINTERS | show 🗑
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| IT'S BELIEVED SHAKESPEARE WROTE PART OF A 1595 PLAY ABOUT HIS "UTOPIA" AUTHOR | show 🗑
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| show | REDS
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| THEIR 1955 SHOW, "PIPE DREAM", ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF CANNERY ROW, WAS BASED ON THIS AUTHOR'S "SWEET THURSDAY" | show 🗑
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| IN 1660 THIS AUTHOR OF "THE PILGRIM'S PROGESS" WAS ARRESTED FOR PREACHING WITHOUT A LICENSE | show 🗑
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| show | KIPLING
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| FANNY PRICE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER COUSIN EDMUND IN HER "MANSFIELD PARK" | show 🗑
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| PLAYWRIGHT OF "AMERICAN BUFFALO" AND "THE CRYPTOGRAM" | show 🗑
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| show | EMILY BRONTE
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| show | AGATHA CHRISTIE
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| show | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
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| show | JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
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| THIS MILITARY OFFICER AND AUTHOR OF "BEN-HUR" REPRESENTS INDIANA IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL | show 🗑
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| show | FAULKNER
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| show | NORMAN MAILER
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| THE 16TH EDITION OF BARTLETT'S DEVOTES MORE THAN 5 PAGES TO THIS "FOUR QUARTETS" POET | show 🗑
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| "THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH" WAS THE ONLY BOOK BY THIS AMERICAN HORROR WRITER PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFE | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR'S 1835 STORY, "YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN" IS A TALE OF WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM, MASS. | show 🗑
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| show | SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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| show | JAMES CLAVELL
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| IN 1889 THIS "THE LIFE OF REASON" AUTHOR BEGAN TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AT HARVARD | show 🗑
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| show | BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD
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| show | BOOTH TARKINGTON
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| ERICA JONG CALLED HER BOOK ABOUT THIS "TROPIC OF CANCER" AUTHOR, "THE DEVIL AT LARGE" | show 🗑
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| show | JAMES BALDWIN
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|
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| MICKEY SPILLANE INTRODUCED THIS DETECTIVE IN "I, THE JURY" | show 🗑
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| show | SIR THOMAS MALORY
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| show | TOM ROBBINS
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|
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| THE 1957 PLAY "MISS LONELYHEARTS" IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THIS AUTHOR WHO WROTE THE NOVEL | show 🗑
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| THIS AUTHOR OF "TAMBURLAINE" HAS BEEN CALLED "A SECOND SHAKESPEARE", BUT SOME THINK HE WAS THE FIRST | show 🗑
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| show | HOMER
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| show | CHIVALRY
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| IN AN ESSAY ALBERT CAMUS COMPARED THE HUMAN CONDITION TO THE MYTH OF THIS ROCK PUSHER | show 🗑
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| show | CAMUS
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| show | JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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| show | ROBERT GRAVES
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| FROM 1949-1956 THIS "PRINCESS DAISY" AUTHOR WAS A FASHION EDITOR FOR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING | show 🗑
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| show | ITALIAN
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| show | O. HENRY
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|
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| "THE HUMAN ZERO" IS A COLLECTION OF THIS AUTHOR'S SCI-FI STORIES, AS DELLA STREET COULD TELL YOU | show 🗑
|
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| show | FREDERIC POHL
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| show | DAPHNE DU MAURIER
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|
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| ISABELLE ADJANI PLAYED THE OBSESSIVE DAUGHTER OF THIS AUTHOR IN "THE STORY OF ADELE H." | show 🗑
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| show | MOLIERE
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|
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| THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS SOMETIMES ABBREVIATED KJV AND SOMETIMES DENOTED BY THESE 2 LETTERS | show 🗑
|
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| show | SAUL BELLOW
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| A GROUP OF 19TH-C. AUTHORS IS CALLED THE KNICKERBOCKER GROUP AFTER HIS PEN NAME | show 🗑
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| show | ILIAD & ODYSSEY
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|
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| THE SHORT STORY WRITER SAKI WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN THIS WAR IN 1916 | show 🗑
|
||||
| WILKIE COLLINS WROTE A NOVEL ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS "WOMAN IN ..." THIS COLOR WHO LIVED IN AN ASYLUM | show 🗑
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| show | NORWEGIAN
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|
||||
| COMPLETES THE TITLE OF OLIVE ANN BURNS' NOVEL "COLD SASSY..." | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR OF "OUR MAN IN HAVANA" PUBLISHED A VOLUME OF HIS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN 1990 | show 🗑
|
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| JOEL ENGLE'S BOOK ABOUT HIM IS SUBTITLED "THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF LIFE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BEFORE HE WROTE "NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| MANUEL PUIG'S NOVEL ABOUT THE KISS OF THIS WOMAN WAS BANNED IN HIS NATIVE ARGENTINA | show 🗑
|
||||
| THE JERZY KOZINSKI NOVEL THAT OPENS WITH "IT WAS SUNDAY. CHANCE WAS IN THE GARDEN" | show 🗑
|
||||
| MARIO PUZO'S SEQUEL TO "THE GODFATHER" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FANNY HILL
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|
||||
| show | CARYL CHESSMAN
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|
||||
| show | COLLODI
🗑
|
||||
| PUBLISHED BY THE NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS IN 1984, IT BECAME A BESTSELLER AND A 1990 FILM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JAMES ELLROY
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|
||||
| AN AUTHORITY ON CARD AND BOARD GAMES, HIS LAST NAME COMPLETES THE EXPRESSION "ACCORDING TO..." | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SOLZHENITSYN
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|
||||
| SOME THINK HIS WORKS, INCLUDING "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT", INSPIRED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | show 🗑
|
||||
| IF YOU'VE READ HIS "A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU", THEN YOU KNOW ABOUT THE MADELIEINES | show 🗑
|
||||
| AMBROSE BIERCE WROTE "THE CYNIC'S WORD BOOK" WHICH WAS LATER PUBLISHED UNDER THIS TITLE | show 🗑
|
||||
| MAUDE ADAMS WAS KNOWN FOR STARRING IN THIS AUTHOR'S PLAYS, INCLUDING "THE LITTLE MINISTER" AND "PETER PAN" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | MOLIERE
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|
||||
| show | DOMINICK DUNNE
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|
||||
| SHE WROTE "THE MAKING OF AMERICANS" DURING THE 43 YEARS SHE LIVED IN PARIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
🗑
|
||||
| EUGENE O'NEILL WORK BASED ON THE "ORESTEIA" BY AESCHULUS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SARAH BERNHARDT
🗑
|
||||
| show | FITZGERALD
🗑
|
||||
| THE AUTHOR OF "GREEN MANSIONS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | PAUL SAMUELSON
🗑
|
||||
| AUTHOR OF THE "SUMMA THEOLOGICA", HE HELD ONE OF THE CHAIRES OF THEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN THE ERA OF COLONIALISM, THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE, "TAKE UP THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | BEOWULF
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|
||||
| show | DORIS LESSING
🗑
|
||||
| THERE WERE REQUIEMS FOR THIS AUTHOR OF "REQUIEM FOR A NUN" AFTER HE DIED IN 1962 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | HEMINGWAY
🗑
|
||||
| OSCAR WILDE'S ONLY NOVEL | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | RAYMOND CHANDLER
🗑
|
||||
| THE FIRST VERSE OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS ATTRIBUTES IT AUTHORSHIP TO THIS MAN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | TREVANIAN
🗑
|
||||
| THIS "ENDGAME" AUTHOR WAS A FRIEND OF JAMES JOYCE BUT, CONTRARY TO RUMOR, WAS NOT HIS SECRETARY | show 🗑
|
||||
| HIS BOOK, SIMPLY TITLED "A BOOK", IS DEDICATED TO "LUCIE AND DESI IV" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GROUCHO MARX
🗑
|
||||
| THIS TV STAR'S BOOK, "STRAIGHT SHOOTING", ISN'T "UNTOUCHABLE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL "THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI" IS ALSO CREDITED WITH THE SCREENPLAY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JEAN COCTEAU
🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR OF "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" REFUSED AN OFFER TO BE POET LAUREATE | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE'S THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF "IF BEAGLES COULD FLY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
🗑
|
||||
| THE POLISH-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE PAINTED BIRD", SET IN EUROPE, AND "BEING THERE", SET IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CANADA
🗑
|
||||
| show | U.S. CIVIL WAR
🗑
|
||||
| show | OLIVER GOLDSMITH
🗑
|
||||
| show | NATHANIEL WEST
🗑
|
||||
| "JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS", A GROUP OF NOVELS BASED ON A BIBLE STORY, IS THIS GERMAN AUTHOR'S LONGEST WORK | show 🗑
|
||||
| IT'S BELIEVED SANTA'S REINDEER AND SLEIGH WERE 1ST MENTIONED IN THIS AUTHOR'S "KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | BRUCE CATTON
🗑
|
||||
| A WALTHAM, MASS UNIVERSITY IS NAMED FOR THIS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AND AUTHOR OF 1914'S "OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | BILL MOYERS
🗑
|
||||
| show | KARL MENNINGER
🗑
|
||||
| IN ITALY THIS PIRANDELLO PLAY IS KNOWN AS "SEI PERSONAGGI IN CERCA D'AUTORE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| THE 1ST WOMAN TO WIN A PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION WAS THIS AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" IN 1921 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GARRISON KEILLOR
🗑
|
||||
| HE WAS GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND AUTHOR OF A SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT A "BAD BOY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| ANNE LINDBERGH'S MAIDEN NAME | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ROBERTS
🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN A SLUM IN ODENSE, DENMARK IN 1805 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | TRUMAN CAPOTE
🗑
|
||||
| show | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
🗑
|
||||
| show | ARTHUR MILLER
🗑
|
||||
| show | SPAIN
🗑
|
||||
| show | ALASKA
🗑
|
||||
| THIS LEGENDARY OUTLAAW IS THE SUBJECT OF LARRY MCMURTRY'S NOVEL "ANYTHING FOR BILLY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | KIPLING
🗑
|
||||
| show | THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES
🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, "BETTY ZANE", WAS AN HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT HIS MOTHER'S ANCESTORS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | POE
🗑
|
||||
| show | LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL & YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
🗑
|
||||
| show | DASHIELL HAMMETT
🗑
|
||||
| HER BOOK "SURVIVOR" BEGINS WHERE "MOMMIE DEAREST" LEFT OFF | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | DON MARQUIS
🗑
|
||||
| AUTHOR OF "FATHERS AND SONS", HE WAS THE FIRST RUSSIAN TO BE WIDELY READ AND ADMIRED IN EUROPE | show 🗑
|
||||
| OUTSOLD ONLY BY THE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE, THIS WOMAN IS THE BEST-SELLING ROMANCE WRITER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
🗑
|
||||
| show | TORTILLA FLAT
🗑
|
||||
| show | BENCHLEY
🗑
|
||||
| show | BRONTE SISTERS
🗑
|
||||
| show | EMILE ZOLA
🗑
|
||||
| THE APPROPRIATE GOAL IN THE GAME "AUTHORS" IS TO FORM THESE | show 🗑
|
||||
| LONG-TIME COMPANION OF DASHIELL HAMMETT, SHE WAS PLAYED IN "JULIA" BY JANE FONDA | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JOHN GRISHAM
🗑
|
||||
| JOHN DRYDEN IN 1683 WAS THE FIRST TO USE THE TERM "BIOGRAPHY"...APPROPRIATELY, WHILE WRITING ABOUT THIS GREEK | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | PYGMALION
🗑
|
||||
| THIS AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR HAS SAID, "MAX IS LIKE MY DEMENTED SON AND HE'S TAKING CARE OF HIS FATHER FOR LIFE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1964, IN A RARE INTERVIEW, SHE SAID, "ALL I WANT TO BE IS THE JANE AUSTEN OF SOUTH ALABAMA..." | show 🗑
|
||||
| THE GRANDSON OF A HUMORIST, THE SON OF A CHILDREN'S AUTHOR, HIS FIRST NOVEL IN 1974 WAS A HUGE BESTSELLER | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1956 SHE PUBLISHED "VENICE OBSERVED" AND HER BROTHER KEVIN STARRED IN "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SAINT JOAN
🗑
|
||||
| HE PUBLICLY OBJECTED TO THE NAME OF A 2004 DOCUMENTARY FOR INFRINGING ON THE TITLE OF ONE OF HIS BOOKS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
🗑
|
||||
| show | HUGH LOFTING
🗑
|
||||
| show | HEMINGWAY
🗑
|
||||
| IN THE 16TH-C. HE WROTE, "WHOEVER WISHES TO FOUND A STATE...MUST START WITH ASSUMING THAT ALL MEN ARE BAD..." | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
🗑
|
||||
| LAWRENCE DURELL SAID THAT IN A 1928 NOVEL THIS MAN USED 4-LETTER WORDS TO CANONIZE & CELEBRATE RAW SENSUALITY | show 🗑
|
||||
| "THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T" IN 1953 WAS THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM FROM THIS AUTHOR'S WORKS; A SECOND WAS RELEASED IN 2000 | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1900 HE SENT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $2.20 TO COPYWRIGHT HIS "THE NAVY ALPHABET" AND ANOTHR, MORE "WONDERFUL" BOOK | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1995 A LIBRARY AT THE GLASCOW VETERINARY SCHOOL WAS NAMED IN HIS HONOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1745 HE BEQUEATHED HIS ESTATE TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDING OF A HOSPITAL FOR THE MENTALLY ILL IN DUBLIN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | STEPPENWOLF (HERMAN HESSE)
🗑
|
||||
| AMONG THE POEMS THIS BRITISH NOVELIST WROTE IN THE 1920S WERE "MEN IN NEW MEXICO" AND "AUTUMN AT TAOS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | GEORGE PLIMPTON
🗑
|
||||
| show | TWAIN
🗑
|
||||
| HE CLAIMED THAT AS A PINKERTON DETECTIVE, HE HAD WORKED THE FATTY ARBUCKLE AND NICKY ARNSTEIN CASES | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1996 RAYMOND BENSON TOOK OVER A BOOK SERIES FROM JOHN GARDNER, WHO HAD TAKEN OVER FROM THIS 1ST AUTHOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| TOURISTS MAY VISIT THE CHAWTON, ENGLAND HOME OF THIS SENSIBLE 19TH-C. NOVELIST, STILL POPULAR TODAY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | MELVILLE
🗑
|
||||
| show | FRANCE
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|
||||
| show | JONATHAN SWIFT
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|
||||
| WITH THE SAME INITIALS AS THE AUTHOR, HARRY HALLER IS THE LONE PROTAGONIST OF THIS 1927 GERMAN NOVEL | show 🗑
|
||||
| AMONG THE POEMS THIS BRITISH NOVELIST WROTE IN THE 1920S WERE "MEN IN NEW MEXICO" AND "AUTUMN AT TAOS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HEMINGWAY DESCRIBED THIS WRITER'S 1961 BOOK "OUT OF MY LEAGUE" AS "THE DARK SIDE OF...WALTER MITTY" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE LAUNCHED HIS LECTURING CAREER IN 1866 WITH A TALK LATER TITLED "OUR FELLOW SAVAGES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS" | show 🗑
|
||||
| HE CLAIMED THAT AS A PINKERTON DETECTIVE, HE HAD WORKED THE FATTY ARBUCKLE AND NICKY ARNSTEIN CASES | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN 1996 RAYMOND BENSON TOOK OVER A BOOK SERIES FROM JOHN GARDNER, WHO HAD TAKEN OVER FROM THIS 1ST AUTHOR | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JANE AUSTEN
🗑
|
||||
| show | MELVILLE
🗑
|
||||
| show | FRANCE
🗑
|
||||
| show | MALCOLM GLADWELL
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|
||||
| BIG SUR, DHARMA BUMS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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|
||||
| show | DAVE EGGERS
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|
||||
| show | JON KRAKAUER
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|
||||
| HOWARDS END, A PASSAGE TO INDIA | show 🗑
|
||||
| TWILIGHT, BREAKING DAWN, ECLIPSE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FRANK MCCOURT
🗑
|
||||
| THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CHARLOTTE BRONTE
🗑
|
||||
| THE NOTEBOOK, A WALK TO REMEMBER, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE | show 🗑
|
||||
| EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER, JITTERBUG PERFUME | show 🗑
|
||||
| DAWN FIRST BROKE ON THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL WITH THE WORKING TITLE, "FIESTA" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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|
||||
| show | SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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|
||||
| IN THE 1920S, HEMINGWAY BAILED THIS INNOVATIVE IRISH NOVELIST OUT OF A FEW PARIS BAR FIGHTS | show 🗑
|
||||
| HEMINGWAY GOT THE TITLE FOR THIS 1926 NOVEL FROM ECCLESIATES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SHERWOOD ANDERSON
🗑
|
||||
| show | A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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|
||||
| show | THE SUN ALSO RISES
🗑
|
||||
| show | THE SUN ALSO RISES
🗑
|
||||
| show | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
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|
||||
| show | THE SUN ALSO RISES
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|
||||
| THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL ENDS WITH JAKE BARNES AND LADY BRETT ASHLEY RIDING IN A TAXI | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A FAREWELL TO ARMS
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|
||||
| show | FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
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|
||||
| show | "THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO"
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|
||||
| show | HEMINGWAY
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|
||||
| show | THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
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|
||||
| THIS 20TH-C. NOVELIST DEFINED "GUTS" AS "GRACE UNDER PRESSURE" | show 🗑
|
||||
| IN THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL, ROBERT JORDAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH MARIA | show 🗑
|
||||
| THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL ABOUT THE "LOST GENERATION" IS TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF JAKE BARNES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE SUN ALSO RISES
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|
||||
| THE FIRST 2 SECTIONS OF THIS HEMINGWAY NOVEL, PUBLISHED 9 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, ARE TITLED "BIMINI" AND "CUBA" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JOHN STEINBECK
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To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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