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American Classics & Their Authors
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1
Who wrote the anxiety-filled classic
The Catcher in the Rye
?
Margaret Mitchell
J.D. Salinger
William Faulkner
Ralph Ellison
2
Who wrote
White Fang
and
The Call of the Wild
?
William James
Theodore Dreiser
Jack London
Upton Sinclair
3
Which author won the Pulitizer Prize for her beloved 1960 novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harper Lee
Toni Morrison
Emily Dickinson
4
Do you know who wrote the somber war novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls
which was published in 1940?
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Ralph Ellison
Ernest Hemingway
5
People who read this writer's short story "The Tell-tale Heart" often feel fear as they read it.
Edgar Allen Poe
Jack London
John Kennedy Toole
Robert Penn Warren
6
The Poisonwood Bible
swept readers along to the Congo with the Price family of missionaries. Who wrote it?
Henry James
Ernest Hemingway
Barbara Kingsolver
Edgar Allen Poe
7
Which author continues to charm new generations of readers with her 1868 novel
Little Women
?
Barbara Kingsolver
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Zora Neale Hurston
Louisa May Alcott
8
Which author introduced readers to Chingachgook in
The Last of the Mochicans
?
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Miller
J.D. Salinger
John Updike
9
Which novelist wrote
Invisible Man
, a 1952 tale of race and identity?
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Toni Morrison
Ralph Ellison
10
You can call the narrator Ishmael, but do you know the name of the author who wrote
Moby Dick
?
John Steinbeck
Herman Melville
Richard Wright
Robert Penn Warren
11
I'll let you help me whitewash this fence if you can guess which of these authors wrote
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
.
Mark Twain
Cormac McCarthy
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
12
Which author based her 1987 novel
Beloved
on a tale written by a real-life slave who escaped to freedom?
Louisa May Alcott
Edith Wharton
Toni Morrison
Harper Lee
13
Who wrote the 1850 tale of shame known as
The Scarlet Letter
which captures Puritan rule in 17th century New England?
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Harper Lee
14
The Great Gatsby
offered readers a glimpse into the Roaring Twenties. Who wrote this novel?
Paul Auster
Joseph Heller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
15
Do you know who wrote
Uncle Tom's Cabin
which ranks as one of the bestselling novels of the 1800s?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zora Neale Hurston
16
This U.S. poet laureate is from the Midwest, received the Pulitzer Prize, & writes about Midwest landscape & rural life.
Ted Kooser
Bryce Fopma
Edgar Allen Poe
Billy Collins
17
Which American novelist penned
Absalom, Absalom!
, a tale inspired by a biblical son of David?
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
Thomas Pynchon
18
Which writer penned
The Grapes of Wrath
, a portrayal of the Great Depression?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Ellison
Harper Lee
John Steinbeck
19
Who wrote
The Red Badge of Courage
, a book known for its realistic take on the Civil War?
Thomas Pynchon
Henry Miller
Stephen Crane
Vladimir Nabokov