From Page To Screen
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler’s List?
1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
Who is Agatha Christie?
This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener
What is Blink?
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier
Who is John Brown?
By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____”
What is zero?
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.
What is Fight Club?
On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century
What are science fiction and fantasy?
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel
What is Beloved?
His “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend’s death
Who is Boswell?
“The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People”
What is 7?
She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, based on the memoir of the same name.
Who is Melissa McCarthy?
It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver
What is Barbara?
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
What is Firestarter?
“The Pioneers”, the latest by David McCullough, features the settlers of this American territory just past the Ohio river
What is the Northwest Territory?
An international bestseller: “The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”
What is 100?
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”
What is Goodfellas?
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado
What is Centennial?
Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie “The Immortal Life of” this woman
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
From “The Charge of the Light Brigade”: “All in the valley of Death rode the ___”
What is 600?
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name
What is The Help?
At 15 she wrote a satirical “History of England” by “a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian”
Who is Jane Austen?
In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence
What is Neuromancer?
His fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson appeared in 2012 & was followed by great anticipation of volume 5
Who is Robert Caro?
A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)
What is 206?