Mark Twain
This fast-talking con-man was a character in four of Twain's books and is also the title of a song by the band Rush.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
This writer was known for his humorous writing and drawings.
Who is James Thurber?
This poem by Langston Hughes contains these lines:
"I’ve known rivers / I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins / My soul has grown deep like the rivers"
What is The Negro Speaks of Rivers?
This author is best remembered for his poem about a raven.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
In this Stephen King novel a werewolf kills residents once a month.
What is Cycle of the Werewolf?
Mark Twain said that he came in with this celestial body and he expected to go out with it.
What is Haley's Comet?
This novel by William Faulkner is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters.
What is As I Lay Dying?
This trumpet player and band director is most known for saying the world was beautiful.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This former slave wrote his autobiography detailing how he escaped from slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This Stephen King novel is about a teenage girl that has telekinetic powers.
What is Carrie?
This unfinished novel went through many versions between 1897 and 1908.
What is The Mysterious Stranger?
This Ernest Hemingway novel takes place during the Spanish American War.
What is For Whom the Bell Tolls?
This writer's most famous novel was Their Eyes are Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This woman's book Uncle Tom's Cabin showed the cruelty of slavery in the United States.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The character from the book IT was a monster that took on the form of a killer clown.
Who is Pennywise?
What is Life on the Mississippi?
This writer/artist wrote many classic children's book, but is most well known for one about a cat in a hat.
Who is Dr. Suess?
This writer's most well-known novel is Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison?
The Scarlet Letter was written by this man.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This novella is about a group of four boys hiking to see a dead body of a boy their age.
What is The Body or Stand By Me?
This controversial novel depicts two friends, a boy and an escaped slave, rafting down the Mississippi River.
What is Huckleberry Finn?
Jean Shepherd's book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, was the basis for this memorable Christmas movie.
What is A Christmas Story?
She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelo?
This author's memoirs describe her life in a Little House on the Prairie.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
This Stephen King novel was about an evil and supernatural car.
What is Christine?