The Mothers of Literature
This well known children's mystery author is actually a series of ghost writers using this pen name.
What is Carolyn Keene?
"Some pig" are the words that made both Wilber and this arachnid famous.
Who is Charlotte?
Shakespeare is known for his tragedies; this is the most well known and widely taught in schools. The title is also one letter away from the name of his only son.
What is Hamlet?
In order to avoid copyright issues, this monster's name was changed to a possible derivative of the Greek word "nosophoros" or the archaic Romanian word for undead.
Who is Dracula?
This famous British leader won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Presidential candidate Andrew Jarrett uses the slogan "Make America Great Again" in "The Parable of the Talents," a 1998 dystopian novel by this sci-fi author.
Who is Octavia E. Butler?
This hum-animal suddenly found himself turned into a bug and unable to go to work.
Who is Gregor Samsa?
In ancient Greece, a play was considered to be a tragedy if it contained heroes and this other type of being.
What are gods?
This monster is known for being the progeny of a queen and a gods favorite cow. It can also be found in series such as Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
What is the Minotaur?
Sir Thomas Mallory is famous for writing this french titled Arthurian tale.
What is Le Mort d'Arthur?
She was the first recognized female poet in colonial America.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
The name of this dog has turned into a phrase meaning to be shot even though the cause of death of this pup was originally rabies.
Who is Old Yeller?
This kind of tragedy is named after an ancient Roman stoic philosopher and playwrite and was known for having a large number of deaths at the end of the play.
What is a Senecan Tragedy?
This Roman work features tales of gods turning others and being turned into animals, plants, and more.
What is The Metamorphoses?
The author James M. Barrie did not make any money from this book. All proceeds went to The Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children In London.
What is Peter Pan?
Sully Prudhomme, the poet and essayist who was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, was born in this country.
What is France?
This animal is known from Aesop's Fables and "The Nun's Priest's tale" to be sneaky, and cunning. It's name can also be used to describe the attractiveness of person.
What is a fox?
This play focuses on the contrast in behavior between Americans and Europeanized Americans. It is known as one of the first comedies of a young America.
What is The Contrast?
This book features an angel and a devil who team up together to save the world from the anti-christ.
What is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett?
This epic poem written by Edmund Spencer was the longest poem written in the time of the Renaissance.
What is The Faerie Queene?
Under the pen name Mary Westmacott, this author wrote "Absence in the Spring," one of her few non-mystery novels, in 1944.
Who is Dame Agatha Christie?
This grinning kitten is well known for his disappearing tricks.
Who is the Cheshire Cat?
A type of drama from this country is called "noh" and featured music and dancing while often ending tragically. It was developed during the Muromachi Period.
What is Japan?
This trickster god is native to regions in Africa and is known for his spider form.
Who is Anansi?
This poem by John Milton was said to have came to him in a dream. Since he was fully blind at this point, a member of his family wrote the poem as Milton dictated it.
What is Paradise Lost?