American Authors

Question 1

Who wrote: Little Women

Answer 1

Louisa May Alcott

Question 2

Who wrote: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Answer 2

Richard Bach

Question 3

Who wrote: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Answer 3

L. Frank Baum

Question 4

Who wrote: O, Pioneers

Answer 4

Willa Cather

Question 5

Who wrote: My Antonia

Answer 5

Willa Cather

Question 6

Who wrote: Death Comes for the Archbishop

Answer 6

Willa Cather

Question 7

Who wrote: The Clan of the Cave Bear

Answer 7

Jean M. Auel

Question 8

Who wrote: Leatherstocking Tales

Answer 8

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 9

Who wrote: Invisible Man

Answer 9

Ralph Ellison

Question 10

Who wrote: Red Badge of Courage

Answer 10

Stephen Crane

Question 11

Who wrote: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Answer 11

Stephen Crane

Question 12

Who wrote: The Great Gatsby

Answer 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 13

Who wrote: As I Lay Dying

Answer 13

William Faulkner

Question 14

Who wrote: Roots

Answer 14

Alex Haley

Question 15

Who wrote: Catch 22

Answer 15

Joseph Heller

Question 16

Who wrote: The Old Man and the Sea

Answer 16

Ernest Hemingway

Question 17

Who wrote: The Sun Also Rises

Answer 17

Ernest Hemingway

Question 18

Who wrote: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Answer 18

Ken Kesey

Question 19

Who wrote: To Kill a Mockingbird

Answer 19

Harper Lee

Question 20

Who wrote: Executioner’s Song

Answer 20

Norman Mailer

Question 21

Who wrote: Daisy Miller

Answer 21

Henry James

Question 22

Who wrote: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Answer 22

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 23

Who wrote: Babbitt

Answer 23

Sinclair Lewis

Question 24

Who wrote: The Call of the Wild

Answer 24

Jack London

Question 25

Who wrote: Rosemary's Baby

Answer 25

Ira Levin

Question 26

Who wrote: Catch 22?

Answer 26

Joseph Heller

Question 27

Who wrote: The World According to Garp?

Answer 27

John Irving

Question 28

Who wrote: The Scarlet Letter?

Answer 28

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 29

Who wrote: The Good Earth?

Answer 29

Pearl Buck

Question 30

Who wrote: Our Town?

Answer 30

Thornton Wilder

Question 31

Who wrote: Dr. Zhivago?

Answer 31

Boris Pasternak

Question 32

Who wrote: Invictus? "My head is bloody, but unbowed.... I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Answer 32

William Ernest Henley

Question 33

Who wrote: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

Answer 33

James Thurber

Question 34

Who wrote: Tarzan?

Answer 34

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Question 35

Who wrote: Leaves of Grass?

Answer 35

Walt Whitman

Question 36

Who wrote: The Waste Land? | The first section begins "April is the cruelest month."

Answer 36

T. S. Eliot

Question 37

Who wrote about encounters with the Roman poet Statius & a woman named Matilda in a work that depicts the mountain of Purgatory?

Answer 37

Dante

Question 38

Who wrote: "Tender is the Night?"

Answer 38

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 39

What novelist's best known work is set in the Long Island town of West Egg? What is the name of the novel?

Answer 39

F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby

Question 40

Who wrote: "The Jungle?"

Answer 40

Upton Sinclair

Question 41

Who wrote: "Nineteen Eighty Four?"

Answer 41

George Orwell

Question 42

Who wrote the following: "The Shadow Line","Lord Jim", and "Heart of Darkness"?

Answer 42

Joseph Conrad

Question 43

Who wrote: " Things Fall Apart"?

Answer 43

Chinua Achebe

Question 44

Who wrote "Transformation In Metamorphosis?"

Answer 44

Franz Kafka

Question 45

Who wrote "Age of Innocence?"

Answer 45

Edith Warton

Question 46

Who wrote "Silent Spring?"

Answer 46

Rachel Carson

Question 47

Who wrote "Long day's Journey into Night?"

Answer 47

Eugene O'Neill

Question 48

Who wrote "Father's & Sons?"

Answer 48

Ivan Turgenev

Question 49

Who wrote "Death of a Salesman"?

Answer 49

Arthur Miller