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Question 1

E(dward) M(organ) Forster

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1879-1970 English author - A Room with a View (1908); Howards End (1910); A Passage to India (1924) - Wrote about class division, gender, homosexuality - Nominated for Nobel 13 years

Question 2

Giovanni Boccaccio

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1313-75 Italian writer y Renaissance humanist - The Decameron (1353-contains 100 tales told during the Black Death); On Famous Women (1374-biographies); Teseida (1341-epic poem)

Question 3

James M. Cain

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1892-1977 American author from MD - Hardboiled crime fiction, which inspired many films - Double Indemnity (1943); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934); Mildred Pierce (1941); The Butterfly (1947)

Question 4

Jose Luis Borges

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1899-1986 Argentine short-story writer - Ficciones (Fictions-1941); The Aleph (1949); A Universal History of Infamy (1935); The Zahir (1949) - Very influential, y the starting point of Latin-American magical-realism genre

Question 5

E(dgar) L(awrence) Doctorow

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1931-2015 American author of historical fiction - Billy Bathgate (1989-about Dutch Schultz); The Book of Daniel (1971-about the Rosenbergs); Ragtime (1975); The March (2005-about Civil War)

Question 6

Henry Fielding

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1707-54 English author y playwright - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749); Amelia (1751); Joseph Andrews (1742) - Worked as a lawyer then judge, y founded London’s 1st professional police force in 1749, The Bow Street Runners

Question 7

Isabel Allende

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1942- Chilean-American writer - The House of the Spirits (1982); City of the Beasts (2002); Of Love and Shadows (1985) - Magical realism style - Awarded Pres Medal of Freedom in 2014

Question 8

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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1804-64 American author from MA - The House of the Seven Gables (1851); The Scarlet Letter (1850); Twice Told Tales (1837-short story collection) - Worked at the Boston Customs House y later appointed a consul to Europe

Question 9

Theodore Dreiser

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1871-1945 American author from IN - Sister Carrie (1900); An American Tragedy (1925) - Part of naturalist movement; his novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code

Question 10

Daniel Defoe

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1660-1731 English author - Robinson Crusoe (1719); Moll Flanders (1722); A Journal of the Plague Year (1722); A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain (1727) - Considered one of the founders of the English novel - Also worked as a journalist y spy

Question 11

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

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1896-1940 American author from MN - The Great Gatsby (1925); This Side of Paradise (1920); The Beautiful and Damned (1922); Tender is the Night (1934); The Love of the Last Tycoon (1941-posthumous) - Married Zelda Fitzgerald in Montgomery AL, then lived in NYC y Paris

Question 12

Aldous Huxley

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1894-1963 English author - Brave New World (1932); The Doors of Perception (1952-essay about taking mescaline); Island (1962) - Moved to Hollywood in 1937 y became a screenwriter - Proponent of pacifism y mysticism

Question 13

Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

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1832-1898 English author, mathematician, y Anglican deacon - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871-contains Jabberwocky y The Walrus and the Carpenter); The Hunting of the Snark (1876-poem)

Question 14

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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1819-1880 female English author - Silas Marner (1861); Middlemarch (1872); Adam Bede (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); Romola (1863); Daniel Deronda (1876)

Question 15

Alexandre Dumas

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1802-1870 French author - The Count of Monte Cristo (1845); The Three Musketeers (1844); Twenty Years After (1845-sequel to T3M); The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847-sequel-contains subplot The Man in the Iron Mask) - Son of a famous Haitian-French general

Question 16

Kate Chopin

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1850-1904 American author from St Louis - The Awakening (1899-early feminist novel set in New Orleans); Desiree’s Baby (1893); Story of an Hour (1894); At Fault (1890)

Question 17

Thomas Hardy

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1840-1928 English author - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874); The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886); Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1895) - Victorian realism style

Question 18

Carl Hiaasen

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1953- American author y journalist from FL - Tourist Season (1986); Skin Tight (1989); Strip Tease (93); Lucky You (97); Skinny Dip (04) - Young adult novels: Hoot (02); Flush (05); Scat (09) - Crime fiction about environmentalism y gov corruption

Question 19

(Jacqueline Jill) Jackie Collins

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1937-2015 English romance novelist - The Stud (1969); Lovehead (1974); Hollywood Wives (1983); Poor Little Bitch Girl (2009) - Lived mostly in Los Angeles - Sister of actress Joan Collins

Question 20

Victor Hugo

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1802-1885 French author y poet - Les Misérables (1862); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (aka Notre-Dame de Paris in French-1831) - Best known in France for his poetry collections Les Contemplations; La Légende des siècles - Buried in the Panthéon

Question 21

Richard Adams

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1920- English author - Watership Down (1972); Shardik (1974); The Plague Dogs (1977); The Girl in a Swing (1980) - Most novels told from point of view of animals

Question 22

William S(eward) Burroughs

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1914-97 American author - Naked Lunch (1959); Junkie (1953); The Nova Trilogy (1967) - A primary figure of the Beat Generation - Heroin addict who travelled the world - Accidentally killed his 2nd wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City

Question 23

Stephen Crane

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1871-1900 American writer - The Red Badge of Courage (1895); Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893); The Open Boat (1897) - Wrote in the Realist style - Died at age 28 of tuberculosis

Question 24

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner

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1897-1962 American author from MS - The Sound and the Fury (1929); As I Lay Dying (1930); Light in August (1932); A Fable (1954-Pulitzer); The Reivers (1962-Pulitzer); Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - Stories usually set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County

Question 25

Raymond Chandler

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1888-1959 American-British author - Hardboiled detective stories feat Philip Marlowe - The Big Sleep (1939); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Little Sister (1949)

Question 26

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett

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1894-1961 American author - Hard-boiled detective novels - The Maltese Falcon (1929-feat Sam Spade); The Thin Man (1934-feat Nick y Nora Charles); Red Harvest (1929-feat The Continental Op) - Blacklisted for being active in Communist politics

Question 27

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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1821-81 Russian author - Notes from Underground (1864); Crime and Punishment (1866); The Idiot (1868); The Brothers Karamazov (1879) - Exiled in Siberia (1849-54) for political beliefs

Question 28

Bede

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672-735 English Catholic monk y author - Aka Venerable Bede or Saint Bede - Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People in 731- Called "The Father of English History" - Canonized in 1899 y named a Doctor of the Church

Question 29

Margaret Atwood

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1939- Canadian author from Ottawa - The Handmaid's Tale (1985); Cat's Eye (1988); The Blind Assassin (2000-Booker Prize); Oryx and Crake (2003)

Question 30

(Henry) Graham Greene

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1904-91 English author - The Confidential Agent (1939); The Third Man (1949); The Quiet American (1955); Brighton Rock; The Power and the Glory

Question 31

William (Gerald) Golding

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1911-93 English author - Lord of the Flies (1954); To the Ends of the Earth trilogy: Rites of Passage (1980-Booker); Close Quarters (1987); Fire Down Below (1989) - Nobel Prize Lit in 1983 - Knighted in 1988

Question 32

Thomas Harris

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1940- American author - Best known for suspense novels about his character Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs (1988); Red Dragon (1981); Black Sunday (1975) - Avoids publicity; last interview given in 1976

Question 33

Fannie Farmer

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1857-1915 American culinary expert y author from MA - Wrote the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), which was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point - Also wrote Chafing Dish Possibilities (1898); What to Have for Dinner (1905)

Question 34

Barbara Cartland

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1901-2000 English author of romance novels - One of the best-selling, y most prolific and commercially successful authors of the 20th century - Wrote more than 700 books, mostly Victorian-era romances - Jig-Saw (1923); A Virgin in Mayfair (1932); A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1951); Fire in the Blood (1983); Two Hearts in Hungary (1991); An Icicle in India (1995)

Question 35

Samuel Butler

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1835-1902 English author - Erowhon (1872-a Utopian satirical novel); The Way of All Flesh (1903-a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman) - In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, y made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey

Question 36

Daniel Handler

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1970- American author from San Francisco - Known for his work under the pen name (and about the character) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 novel series starting with The Bad Beginning - 1999-2006); All the Wrong Questions (4 novel series - 2012-2015); The Basic Eight (1998) - Has played accordion professionally for several bands

Question 37

Nick Hornby

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1957- English author - Fever Pitch: A Fan’s Life (1992); High Fidelity (1995); About a Boy (1998); Juliet, Naked (2009) - Works usually about music y sports, y several have been adapted into films