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Authors Trivia

Test your knowledge about famous authors, classic literature, and beloved novels with these engaging questions.

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  1. Who is the author of the "The Hunger Games" trilogy?
  2. Who has won the Booker Prize twice, the second time for the 2012 sequel "Bring Up the Bodies"?
  3. Can you name the series of children's horror novels featuring Slappy the Dummy, written by American author R.L. Stine?
  4. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" is a quote by which author?
  5. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
  6. Published in 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" is a work of historical fiction by which American author?
  7. French novelist Gustave Flaubert is best known for which 1857 book?
  8. Which writer died a day before William Shakespeare?
  9. Which 1826 historical romance novel was written by James Fenimore Cooper?
  10. Who was the youngest of the Bronte sisters?
  11. In which century did John Milton live?
  12. English playwright and writer Aphra Behn was born during the build-up to which war?
  13. Which novelist is best known for his novel "Ulysses"?
  14. Who has been described as France's William Shakespeare?
  15. Virginia Woolf was a central figure and member of which group of English writers?
  16. Which English writer, on his first visit to America in 1842, was greeted like a modern rock star?
  17. Lewis Carroll’s poem "Jabberwocky" is from which book?
  18. Kurt Vonnegut's breakthrough was his very successful sixth novel; can you name it?
  19. Which author wrote "On the Road" and is associated with the Beat Generation?
  20. Garcia Marquez is best known for which novel, which sold over fifty million copies?
  21. Which writer became Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University in 1925?
  22. Which modern author has published several of his works under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?
  23. Edgar Allan Poe is often credited with inventing the modern detective story with which novel?
  24. Can you name the first African American woman to write a non-fiction bestseller with her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
  25. Whose "Three Laws of Robotics" have become central to the study of artificial intelligence?
  26. What's most notable about Marcel Proust’s masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time"?
  27. By what name do we better know Theodor Geisel?
  28. Which writer used the profits from her books to buy and preserve thousands of acres of land in the Lake District?
  29. Who wrote both the book and the screenplay for "Gone Girl"?
  30. Which best-selling author wrote the novel "And Then There Were None"?


Answers



  1. Suzanne Collins
  2. Hilary Mantel
  3. Goosebumps
  4. George Orwell
  5. Bob Dylan
  6. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  7. Madame Bovary
  8. Miguel de Cervantes
  9. "The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757"
  10. Anne Bronte
  11. 17th century (1608–1674)
  12. The English Civil War
  13. James Joyce
  14. Moliere
  15. Bloomsbury Group
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. "Through the Looking-Glass"
  18. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969)
  19. Jack Kerouac
  20. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967)
  21. J.R.R. Tolkien
  22. Stephen King
  23. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
  24. Maya Angelou
  25. Isaac Asimov
  26. One of the longest novels ever written (over 4,000 pages)
  27. Dr. Seuss
  28. Beatrix Potter
  29. Gillian Flynn
  30. Agatha Christie