American Literature
If you think you have a Thoreau understanding of trivia, these American Literature questions are the Wright ones for you. Hopefully you've been Twain-ing long enough, but we'll Lee-ave it up to you.
Who said:- ‘I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception’.
Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912?
How was writer William Sydney Porter better known?
What ABC political host penned the inspirational bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters?
In a searing essay titled ‘Uncle Remus, No Friend of Mine’, the writer Alice Walker accused which other African-American author of ‘stealing a good part of my heritage’?
Which city did Truman Capote describe as “eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go?”
The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a best-selling novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid-70’s. Under what name did it eventually terrify the reading and film going public?
What color fur does The Grinch have? Is it a) brown, b) green, or c) yellow?
THE FIRST BOOK TO BE WRITTEN ON A TYPEWRITER, WAS TYPED IN 1875, AND WAS ENTITLED “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER”, WHO W?
Which author famed for his Wild West novels penned the 1912 book Riders of the Purple Sage?
Celie is the name of the central character in which award winning novel by Alice Walker?
Who narrates the Brer Rabbit stories?
Which novel opens with the murder of Miles Archer? Death on the Nile, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Funeral In Berlin
Who was Moby-Dick?
Hemmingway’s Old Man and the Sea is set in which country?
Who wrote Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
In fiction, what is the last name of Dr. Hannibal – the Cannibal?
Lindbergh wrote about his New York to Paris flight in which book?
Who wrote the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness?
What title did William Burroughs intend to give his controversial, scatological book Naked Lunch?
What kind of tree was Betty Smith referring to in her book “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”?
WHAT ARE THE MARCH SISTERS NAMES IN LOUISA M ALCOTTS (LITTLE WOMAN)?
Which children’s toy now considered to be politically incorrect was the brain child of Florence K Upton in 1895
Who wrote the novel Jaws?
Which famous author sent the first typewritten manuscript to a publisher?
Which author was portrayed by Gregory Peck in the film Beloved Infidel? Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
Gabilan is the title animal of which John Steinbeck’s work?
The duke and the king’ are characters that accompany the runaway lead pair in which classic American novel?
What famous author wrote the short story Dry September in 1931 and the novel Light in August in 1932?
Which people inhabited the country in the ‘Land of Oz’ to which Dorothy was blown?
Who hunted Moby-Dick?
Which book, by Herman Melville, opens with the words – Call me Ishmael?
In what year was the first Tarzan novel published?
Who wrote the horror book ‘The Shining’?
WHO WROTE THE NOVEL “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”?
Beatrice Bryant is a lead character in which novel?
Which literary character, created by Washington Irving, suffered from trypanosomiasis?
Who wrote The Glass Menagerie?
Which novel is set on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa? The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Prince And The Pauper, Catch 22,Don Quixote
What was the first book in the Goosebumps series?
What was the name of the last book written by Amelia Earhart?
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by which writer of the macabre?
Earth’s Children is a series of popular alternative pre-historical fiction novels by which author?
Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
What was the title of the book and film about Hannibal Lector as he grows up?
Which book did Mark Chapman read while waiting to be arrested after the murder of John Lennon?
What kind of ship was the U.S.S. Caine in Herman Wouk’s 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny?
WHAT WAS THE PEN-NAME OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER-BOAT PILOT WHO CREATED THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN?
What was the name of Hopalong Cassidy’s horse?
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