Literature Trivia Questions
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Who is the author of the play 'The Widow's Tears' who also translated Homer and greatly impressed John Keats?
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george chapman
Who is the author of the 1954 book titled 'My Left Foot'?
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christy brown
Which famous Danish author wrote the fairy tale that inspired the ballet 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'?
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hans christian andersen
In Sue Grafton's book series, if 'F' is for a person on the run, what is the word?
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fugitive
Which poet's collection, 'The Children of the Night,' included the frequently reprinted poem 'Richard Cory'?
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edwin arlington robinson
What animal 'roared' and 'saved the West' in novels about a tiny duchy called Grand Fenwick?
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mouse
Which poet, who was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wrote the poem 'Goblin Market'?
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christina rossetti
Who wrote the 1938 work 'The Unvanquished', in which the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War?
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william faulkner
Which Beat Generation writer is the subject of the oral biography titled 'Jack's Book'?
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jack kerouac
Who wrote the phrase 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast' in his 'Essay on Man'?
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alexander pope
Which author wrote the 1996 mystery 'The Fallen Man', featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Navajo policeman Jim Chee?
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tony hillerman
What magazine is known as the 'International News Magazine of Book Publishing'?
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publishers weekly
Which author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 for their third novel featuring the character Harry Angstrom?
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john updike
What is the title of Richard Condon's 1959 suspense novel about Raymond Shaw, an ex-POW programmed to be an assassin?
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manchurian candidate
Who wrote the prose 'Devotions' which includes the line, 'No man is an island, entire of itself'?
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john donne
Which contemporary author wrote 'The Alexandria Quartet' and 'The Avignon Quintet'?
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lawrence durrell
Who is the author of the novel 'Curtain: Hercule Poirot's Last Case'?
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agatha christie
Which author, who wrote the novel, is honored in the dedication of the 1957 play 'Miss Lonelyhearts'?
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nathanael west
Who is referred to as 'America's Sherlock Holmes in Sneakers' in this book series?
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encyclopedia brown
Who is the author of both 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Going Solo,' which recounts his experiences in the RAF?
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roald dahl
Who is the author of the unfinished novel 'Sanditon', which she began writing in 1817, the year of her death?
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jane austen
Which fictional heroine's statue at Grand Pre commemorates the expulsion of the Acadians in Nova Scotia?
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evangeline
Which poet became an immediate sensation after the 1812 publication of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'?
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lord byron
What is the name of the title animal in Anna Sewell's only novel that served as a plea for the proper care of horses?
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black beauty
Who is the Newsday columnist who wrote the novel 'The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight'?
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jimmy breslin
What classic book by Margery Williams involves the love of a boy bringing a stuffed bunny to life?
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velveteen rabbit
Which contemporary author saw the paperback release of his book 'The Apocalypse Watch' climb the best seller charts in 1996?
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robert ludlum
In which novel do the characters Wang Lung and O-Lan endure 34 chapters of war, pestilence, famine, floods, drought, disease, and locust swarms?
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good earth
What is the term for a professional copyist, exemplified by Bartleby in a Melville story?
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scrivener
Who is the author of 'Sons', the second novel in the 'House of Earth' trilogy that traces the lives of Wang Lung's three sons?
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pearl s. buck
Who was the 18th century author of 'The Beggar's Opera'?
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john gay
What flower, which could be the Japonica variety, is associated with a courtesan in a Dumas novel?
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camellia
In books by B. Malamud, what is the title given to ballplayer Roy Hobbs?
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natural
Which novelist, known for writing screenplays for Howard Hawks, has a last name that means 'one who works with falcons'?
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william faulkner
Which author, known for writing 'Treasure Island', also created the collection 'A Child's Garden of Verses'?
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robert louis stevenson
In his introduction to 'A Tale of a Tub', which Irish-born satirist says that wisdom 'is a cheese'?
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jonathan swift
Which author, known for 'Ethan Frome', won the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Age of Innocence'?
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edith wharton
Who is the humorist behind the 1942 published collection 'My World--and Welcome to It'?
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james thurber
Who is the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, also known as the Jewish Mark Twain?
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sholem aleichem
Who is the 20th-century German author of the novel 'Buddenbrooks'?
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thomas mann
Who is the author whose stories feature Reb Tevye as the main character, including in 'Today's Children'?
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sholem aleichem
Who is the author of the story 'To Build A Fire', which describes a man and a dog struggling to survive a harsh Yukon winter night?
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jack london
Who is the author who wrote 'The Manchurian Candidate' and completed his third novel, 'Some Angry Angel', in Mexico City?
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richard condon
Who is the author of 'I, Claudius' for adults and 'The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star' for children?
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robert graves
What weather condition is mentioned in the titles of the 1948 and 1949 Caldecott Medal-winning books by Roger Duvoisin and the Haders?
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snow
Which author, known for her Gothic-style novels including 'Bellefleur', describes her works as 'not exactly parodies' but 'parodistic'?
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joyce carol oates
Who wrote the 1957 play 'The Dumb Waiter' featuring two characters who are hired killers?
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harold pinter
Which author, famously from Manhattan, Kansas, wrote the 'Guys & Dolls' stories?
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damon runyon
Which writer's travel books were overshadowed by the popularity of poems like 'The Owl and the Pussycat'?
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edward lear
In which Kipling short story does Daniel Dravot become the godlike monarch of an Afghani tribe?
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man who would be king
Which novel begins with the line, 'Mr. Jones of the Manor Farm had locked the hen-houses...but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes'?
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animal farm
Who is the poet whose 1971 collection 'Winter Trees' includes poems from the last year of her life?
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sylvia plath
Who authored the 1932 story set in Nebraska, titled 'Neighbor Rosicky'?
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willa cather
What novel by Herman Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize and is set during World War II?
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caine mutiny
Who is the author of 'Metamorphosis' who was the subject of a biography by his friend Max Brod?
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franz kafka
What is the name of the enchantress whom Odysseus is protected against by the flower Moly in The Odyssey?
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circe
Which famous author was only 5 years old when the plague devastated London and wrote a detailed account called 'Journal of the Plague Year' 57 years later?
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daniel defoe
Which Sri Lanka-born Canadian author won Britain's Booker Prize for the novel 'The English Patient'?
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michael ondaatje
In which Chaucer work does The Man of Law's Tale tell the story of Constance, an emperor's daughter?
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canterbury tales
Which author originally published his 1893 novel 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets' under the pseudonym Johnston Smith?
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stephen crane
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