Ohio Authors
This "Beloved" Ohio author, born in 1931, called Lorainher "Home" and she earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
Who is Toni Morrison?
This memoirist was no Leia-bout, having written three: The Princess Diarist, Shockaholic and Wishful Drinking
Who is Carrie Fisher?
The novel in which we learn that one Mr. Caulfield has failed four out of five classes at Pencey
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
In this detective's 1892 Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer for this book in 1961
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Thinking about this Ohio author, born in Columbus in 1943 will give you Goosebumps and his Fear Street series is spooky as well!
Who is R. L. Stine?
Librarians have "no reservations" recommending Kitchen Confidential by this chef, author, and TV host
Who is Anthony Bourdain?
You will find Draco Malfoy studying at this school
What is Hogwarts?
Created by Charles Perrault, this fairy tale villain who killed six wives may be based on real murderer Gilles de Rais
Who is Bluebeard?
Santiago reeled in the 1953 Pulitzer for Ernest Hemingway in this novel
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
This colorfully named author penned Riders of the Purple Sage after he was born in 1872 in Muskingum County in a city named for his great-grandfather Ebenezer
Who is Zane Grey?
This memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert is subtitled "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia"
What is Eat, Pray, Love?
This John Irving character is a student at Steering prep school, where he takes up wrestling
Who is T. S. Garp?
Four years after The Red Badge of Courage, he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories
Who is Stephen Crane?
A little bird told us that Donna Tartt won the 2014 Pulitzer for this novel
What is The Goldfinch?
This cartoonist grew up in Chagrin Falls and graduated from Kenyon College. After making editorial cartoons for the Cincinnati Post, he became famous for Calvin & Hobbes
Who is Bill Watterson
Me Talk Pretty One Day is a memoir of life in Paris by this humorist whose name rhymes with "Paris"
Who is David Sedaris
In an early Stephen King novel, she has the last laugh at Ewen High
Who is Carrie (White)?
In this 1908 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island
What is The Blue Lagoon?
This author won the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2020 for The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys
Who is Colson Whitehead?
This Winesburg, Ohio author was born in Camden in 1876
Who is Sherwood Anderson?
Barack Obama wrote the foreword to this other leader's book "Conversations with Myself"
Who is Nelson Mandela
This title Shakespeare guy attended school in Wittenberg and two of his mates there are later brought into the plot
Who is Hamlet?
Better known for green gables, this author also wrote The Blue Castle
Who is L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery?
Marilynne Robinson won the 2005 Pulitzer for this novel, a fictional autobiography of the pastor John Ames
What is Gilead?