Authors and Artists
His best known work is similar in style to Twain's Tom Sawyer. An editor of the Atlantic Monthly, what author is remembered for his semiautobiographical work The Story of a Bad Boy?
Aldrich
A valuable influence on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, what collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio contains 10 young nobles who flee the city of Florence for fear of the plague?
The Decameron
She wrote the poetry volumes Requiem and The White Flock. Who was this foremost Russian poet of the 20th century and the founder of the acmeists?
Anne Akhmatova
He virtually shaped the entire mold of classical theater in France. Who was this playwright, whose most famous plays are Horace and Le Cid?
Pierre Corneille
Translate the following gobbledygook sentence into a common proverb: "A mobile section of petrified matter accumulates no bryophytes."
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Influenced by Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, he utilized the stream of consciousness literary technique. Name this author of The Eye of the Storm who, in 1973, became the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Patrick White
In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey, a white man traveling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South. Give the title of this book which helped ignite public opinion in support of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement.
"Black Like Me"
Irina, Masha and Olga are the title characters in what 1901 drama by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov?
In 1898, he wrote a famous letter to the French president criticizing the Dreyfuss affair. A leader of the French naturalist movement, this author's works include The Dram-Shop, Nana, and Germinal. Who was he?
Emile Zola
In Yesterday, I Cried, she stresses that past hardships can and should be used to teach us how to grow, heal, love others and love ourselves. The message is one that has been echoed in what author's best-sellers, such as, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, and Until Today?
Vanzanti
Identify the English Lake Poet who gives a vivid description of his own experience as a drug addict in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
Thomas De Quincey
In a series of dialogues, it sets forth the author's concept of the ideal gentleman and the norms of courtesy in a cultured society. Identify this chief work of the Italian writer and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione.
The Courtier
Poor Folk was the first published work of what great Russian author, who is more famous for his works The Brothers Karamazov [kar-rah-MAH-zawf] and Crime and Punishment?
Dostoyevsky
The most popular author of the French Renaissance, who is credited with creating the personal essay in his writings?
Montaigne
They stressed the use of human reason and were especially critical of established religious and political practices of the day. Name this group of radical French thinkers and writers of the 18th century that included Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The Philosophes
Name the 17th-century metaphysical poet famous for such works as "The Garden" and "To His Coy Mistress."
Andrew Marvell
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked ... ." So begins what long poem by Allen Ginsberg, one that established him as a major force in the Beat Generation?
"Howl"
This author's bout with skin cancer inspired his novel The Cancer Ward, Whose experience in the Soviet penal system was the basis for The Gulag Archipelago?
Solzhenitsyn
Esther, Andromache, and Phaedra are three successful dramas by what 17th-century playwright who has been hailed as the greatest writer of classical tragedy in France?
Jean Racine
Examples of this literary genre include the novels David Copperfield and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. German for "formation novel," what type of literary work treats the personal development of a single individual from youth to adulthood?
Bildungsroman
He was a transforming influence in American theater for almost four decades. Name this director and producer who, in 1954, founded what would become the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Joseph Papp
"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," the philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote in what essay that supports complete power for the monarchy?
Leviathan
This writer first earned recognition with his collection of tales about peasant life titled A Sportsman's Sketches. This Russian author's later works include A Month in the Country and A House of Gentlefolk, but he is best remembered for his masterpiece Fathers and Sons. Name him.
Turgenev
Skilled at writing love poems, sonnets and political verse, he was once called the "Prince of Poets." He served as leader of the Pleiade poets of the 16th century and is considered the greatest poet of the French Renaissance. Name him.
Pierre De Ronsard
As a youth, he trained for the civil service, and he held many government positions throughout his lifetime. He was also an accomplished writer whose works embraced the customs and folklore of the Russian peasantry. Identify this 19th century Russian author of Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov.
Alexander Pushkin