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.
What was the title of Kitty Kelley’s book about Jacqueline Onassis?
What was Huck Finn’s remedy for warts?
What was the combined ages of Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney when they published their book of Everyday Wisdom in 1994?
Hitchcock appears in a newspaper in Lifeboat who wrote book?
For what did General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing win a Pulitzer Prize in 1932?
Who wrote ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, the first detective story?
In the novel Futility, published in 1898 – fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic – an “unsinkable” luxury liner was lost after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. What was the ship’s name?
The first western novel of what popular author was entitled Hop along Cassidy and the Riders of High Rock?
WHICH ‘LMA’ WROTE LITTLE WOMEN?
Who penned an autobiography entitled The Happy Hooker?
Which novel by Walter Farley was adapted into a film starring Mickey Rooney?
Who is the author of the book… The Postman Always Rings Twice
What is the home state of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz? California, Kansas, Kentucky, Texas
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?
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