Ohio Authors
Memoirs
Literature Students
Blue Literature
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
100

This "Beloved" Ohio author, born in 1931, called Lorainher "Home" and she earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

Who is Toni Morrison?

100

This memoirist was no Leia-bout, having written three: The Princess Diarist, Shockaholic and Wishful Drinking

Who is Carrie Fisher?

100

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?

100

In this detective's 1892 Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

100

Harper Lee won the Pulitzer for this book in 1961

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

200

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?

200

Librarians have "no reservations" recommending Kitchen Confidential by this chef, author, and TV host

Who is Anthony Bourdain?

200

You will find Draco Malfoy studying at this school

What is Hogwarts?

200

Created by Charles Perrault, this fairy tale villain who killed six wives may be based on real murderer Gilles de Rais

Who is Bluebeard?

200

Santiago reeled in the 1953 Pulitzer for Ernest Hemingway in this novel

What is The Old Man and the Sea?

300

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?

300

This memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert is subtitled "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia"

What is Eat, Pray, Love?

300

This John Irving character is a student at Steering prep school, where he takes up wrestling

Who is T. S. Garp?

300

Four years after The Red Badge of Courage, he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories

Who is Stephen Crane?

300

A little bird told us that Donna Tartt won the 2014 Pulitzer for this novel

What is The Goldfinch?

400

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

400

Me Talk Pretty One Day is a memoir of life in Paris by this humorist whose name rhymes with "Paris"

Who is David Sedaris

400

In an early Stephen King novel, she has the last laugh at Ewen High

Who is Carrie (White)?

400

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?

400

This author won the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2020 for The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

Who is Colson Whitehead?

500

This Winesburg, Ohio author was born in Camden in 1876

Who is Sherwood Anderson?

500

Barack Obama wrote the foreword to this other leader's book "Conversations with Myself"

Who is Nelson Mandela

500

This title Shakespeare guy attended school in Wittenberg and two of his mates there are later brought into the plot

Who is Hamlet?

500

Better known for green gables, this author also wrote The Blue Castle

Who is L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery?

500

Marilynne Robinson won the 2005 Pulitzer for this novel, a fictional autobiography of the pastor John Ames

What is Gilead?