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This author is most famous for his poem, "The Raven"
Who was Edgar Allan Poe
This author and Elon Musk have been named in a cyberbullying lawsuit by Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif
Who is J.K. Rowling
What is burning them
There is an argument that Albert Camus was killed by this organization due to his anti-Soviet rhetoric
What is the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti/the Committee for State Security)
George Eliot was of this gender
What is woman (Mary Ann Evans)
This early modern playwright and poet has a type of sonnet named after him
Who was William Shakespeare (Shakespearean sonnets)
This author is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for her novel, The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker
These two authors were once very close friends, but their relationship soured due to differences in opinion regarding how best to establish world building. They soon made up but never saw eye-to-eye about their literary approaches
Who were J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death began when he showed up at one of these in a stupor, wearing clothes that didn't belong to him
What is a tavern/bar
Oscar Wilde was tried for this in 1895 with many counts of gross indecency
What is homosexuality
This author hated the main character of his books so much that he killed him off, only to revive him soon after due to public outcry
Who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
While writing, Margaret Atwood also taught this at a university level
What is English literature
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were close friends for a time, Hemingway started constantly making fun of Fitzgerald in newspapers and magazines due to Fitzgerald's...
Nikolai Gogol died of starvation after refusing food due to accidentally doing this during a period of depression
What is burning his manuscripts
Neil Gaiman was married to Amanda Palmer before their divorce in 2022 who is the lead singer of this many bands
What is 3 (The Dresden Dolls, Evelyn Evelyn, and 8in8)
This author, known primarily for her children's books about various animals, was responsible for saving an endangered breed of sheep
Who was Beatrix Potter
This author is the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison
D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield were close enough friends that Lawrence wove Mansfield into his novels; for example, Gudrun in this book of his was drawn directly from her
What is Women in Love
Mark Twin was born on the day that this comet appeared and later correctly predicted that he would die the next time it came around
What is Halley's Comet
This mystery author made headlines due to her sudden disappearance. The happenings surrounding the disappearance have never been solved due to her losing her memory afterward
Who was Agatha Christie
This author wrote her famous work during a horrible vacation, the lightning inspiring her to write about the hubris of man creating life on a dare to write a scarier horror story than what she has read before
Who was Mary Shelley
This author used to sell monster stories for pennies to the neighborhood kids, only stopping once a mother complained
Who is George R. R. Martin
Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde had a falling out due to Bram Stoker stealing this
Who is his fiancée (Florence Balcombe)
Barbara Salinas Norman died alone in her apartment in this city and was not found until two years later
Where is Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of this poet, is often credited as the first computer programmer after proposing the first computer, the Analytical Engine
Who was Lord Byron