From Page to Screen
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler’s List?
1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
Who is Agatha Christie?
The novel titled this “Patient” is set in Italy & was written by Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje
What is The English?
This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener
What is Blink?
“Pebble in the Sky” was his first novel, the “Foundation” of a long & prolific career writing science fiction
Who is Asimov?
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.
What is Fight Club?
On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century
What are science fiction and fantasy?
Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote “We Are Going”, the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity
What are Aboriginal?
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel
What is Beloved?
“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land
What is Terabithia?
She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, based on the memoir of the same name.
It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver
What is Barbara?
Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language’s greatest dramas in what’s now the country of Georgia
What is Armenian?
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
What is Firestarter?
He taught us “The Power of Myth”
Who is Joseph Campbell?
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”
What is Goodfellas?
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This poet told the Nobel Banquet, “Our Irish theatre could (never) have come into existence but for” Henrik Ibsen
Who is William Butler Yeats?
This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado
What is Centennial?
The title of this debut novel by Gillian Flynn is an allusion to cutting, part of Camille Preaker’s traumatic past in the book
What is Sharp Objects?
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name
What is The Help?
At 15 she wrote a satirical “History of England” by “a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian”
Who is Jane Austen?
Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what’s now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like “Typhoon” in English
Who is Joseph Conrad?
In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence
What is Neuromancer?
The first book in a series, it opens in Inverness in 1945 & begins. “It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances”
What is Outlander?