booky
100

In 1850, he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries.

who is melville

200

At 15 she wrote a satirical “History of England” by “a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian”


Ms. Jane Austen

300

What repetitively named William Faulkner novel is told as a series of flashbacks from narrator Quentin Compson to his roommate at Harvard?

 Absalom, Absalom!

400

What American novelist is well-known for his sparse use of punctuation and once claimed that to use quotation marks is to "blot the page up with weird little marks?" This author is associated with the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.

Cormac McCarthy

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