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 classic adventure story did author William Styron reject when he was a reader for the McGraw-Hill – a mistake he had his narrator, Stingo, repeat in his novel Sophie’s Choice?
Who is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes?
Whose Complete Guide To Running is credited with beginning the craze for jogging?
Hemmingway said there’s only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Car Racing and what?
What was the name of the ocean liner that provided the setting for Katherine Anne Porter’s novel A Ship of Fools?
Who was the subject of the 1968 biography Always on Sunday? A :Ed Sullivan.
WHICH ‘IA’ IS THE AMERICAN SCIENCE-FICTION WRITER WITH HIS OWN SCI-FI MAGAZINE?
WHICH AMERICAN AUTHOR WROTE THE NOVEL (ROOTS)?
Who wrote the poem The Raven?
Who is the author of the book… Jurassic Park
Point Clue: I am one of the worlds most successful writers of horror stories and my past works include, The Shining, The Dead Zone and Misery. Who am I?
Who wrote “Jaws”?
Who said “Nothing is so much to be feared as fear”?
Which 1940 novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas and is considered one of the earliest successful novels by an African American?
What famous American novelist has written several mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box?
Which American dramatist and novelist wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947?
What author bought the minivan that hit him for $1,500 so he could take a sledgehammer to it?
Along with Isaac Asmiov and Arthur C. Clarke, who is considered one of the ‘Big Three’ science-fiction writers with books like Stranger in a Strange Land?
Similar to John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World, which influential 1930s book by Edgar Snow is an account of the Communist Party of China?
IN FRANK HERBERT’S DUNE WHAT ARE THE MAKERS?
Which cat created by TS Eliot is known as the Railway Cat?
Who penned the novel Interview with the Vampire?
Who is the author of the book… Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Who wrote the novel The Moon and Sixpence?
What was the name of the orange-and-white kitten in the classic children’s books that featured Dick and Jane and their dog Spot?
Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea?
Which writer created Philip Marlowe, Private Eye?
What is Neil Simon’s real first name?
In Mad magazine’s spoofs of Superman, what names were used for the Man of Steel and his newspaperman alter ego?
What famous American author’s grandfather was the model for Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem The Last Leaf, about an aged survivor to the Boston Tea party?
Who wrote the opera Porgy and Bess?
Which American thriller writer wrote ‘Debt of Honor’, ‘Rainbow Six’, ‘Red Storm Rising’, ‘The Sum of All Fears’ and ‘Red Rabbit’?
FOR WHICH PARTICULAR GENRE IS ZANE GREY BEST KNOWN?
Which descendent of Harriet Beecher Stowe created the heroine Dr Kay Scarpetta?
Which 1975 vampire novel by Stephen King features a lead character called Ben Mears?
Who is the author of the book… The Big Sleep
Point Clue: I was born on September 21, 1947 in the American town of Portland. I graduated from university in 1970 with a degree in English and went on to become a high school teacher at Hampden Academy. Who am I?
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
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