Who Wrote It?
This author wrote the collection of interconnected short stories My Name is Aram.
Who is William Saroyan?
This author, who witnessed Greeks and Armenians fleeing in the aftermath of the tragic burning of Smyrna, famously said "man is not made for defeat."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This author is nicknamed "The King of Horror."
Who is Stephen King?
There are two authors in our presentation from Massachusetts. You will get 100 points for each one you can name.
Who are Edgar Allan Poe and Dr. Seuss?
This author is considered the father of American literature because he captured everyday American life with real language in the tales of characters like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
This author's most famous work tells the tale of Captain Ahab's pursuit of a white whale.
Who is Herman Melville?
This gothic author once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This author is primarily known for their children's books.
Who is Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)?
Three authors from our presentation were born in New York. You will get 100 points for each one you can name.
Who are J.D. Salinger, Herman Melville, and Washington Irving?
This author's novel In Cold Blood is considered the first major true crime novel.
Who is Truman Capote?
Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, the story of a lawyer who defends a Black man falsely accused of a crime in the American South.
Who is Harper Lee?
This science fiction author famously said “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This author's "Iceberg Theory" suggests that the action and dialogue of characters in a story reveal only a small part of the story's meaning.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Three authors from our presentation are from the American South. You will get 100 points for each one you can name and a bonus 50 points if you can name the state they are from.
Who are Truman Capote (Louisiana), William Faulkner (Mississippi), and Harper Lee (Alabama)?
This author lived before the 20th century but created and popularized characters like Rip Van Winkle, the Headless Horseman, and Ichabod Crane—the latter two appearing in the 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow starring Johnny Depp.
Who is Washington Irving?
This author's 1951 novel about teenage alienation and the loss of innocence mostly takes place in New York City.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
This author's experience in World War II informed his most famous novel, in which the simple, absurd phrase of "so it goes" is repeated every single time a death is mentioned.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
This author is famous for writing about the American South using difficult, experimental narration.
Who is William Faulkner?
Four authors from our presentation were born in California. You will get 100 points for each one you can name and 50 additional points if you can name the city they are from.
Who are John Steinbeck (Salinas), Octavia E. Butler (Pasadena), William Saroyan (Fresno), and Ursula K. Le Guin (Berkeley)?
Four authors from our presentation won the Nobel Prize in Literature. You will get 100 points for each one you can name and another 50 points if you can name the year in which they won.
Who are William Faulkner (1949), Ernest Hemingway (1954), John Steinbeck (1962), and Toni Morrison (1993)?
Her two most famous novels reshaped how American literature confronts the haunting, generational trauma of slavery.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This author, known for examining the American Dream, once wrote "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This author brought a philosophical approach to the imaginary worlds of her science fiction novels like A Wizard of Earthsea, The Dispossessed, and The Left Hand of Darkness.
Who is Ursula K. Le Guin?
Six authors in our presentation are from the American Midwest. You will get 100 points for each one you can name and a bonus 50 if you can name the state they are from.
Who are Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana), Ray Bradbury (Illinois), Ernest Hemingway (Illinois), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Minnesota), Toni Morrison (Ohio), and Mark Twain (Missouri)?
This American author has the most movie and television adaptations of their works.
Who is Stephen King?