How Well Do You Actually Know the Authors Behind These Famous Books?

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Who Wrote The Classic Novel Pride And Prejudice?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Children's Book Charlotte's Web?

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Harper Lee Is Best Known For Writing Which Famous Novel?

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Who Wrote The Grapes Of Wrath?

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Which Author Created The Wizard Of Oz?

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Agatha Christie Is Best Known For Writing Which Genre?

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Who Wrote The Harry Potter Series?

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Gone With The Wind Was Written By Which Author?

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Who Wrote The Diary Of A Young Girl?

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Which Author Wrote Moby Dick?

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Who Wrote The Classic Novel The Great Gatsby?

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Little Women Was Written By Which Beloved American Author?

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Who Wrote The Thrilling Novel The Old Man And The Sea?

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Who Wrote The Spooky Classic Frankenstein?

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John Grisham Is Best Known For Writing Which Type Of Novel?

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Who Wrote The Timeless Classic A Tale Of Two Cities?

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Which Author Created The Famous Detective Sherlock Holmes?

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Toni Morrison Won The Nobel Prize For Literature In Which Decade?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel The Color Purple?

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Which Author Wrote The Suspense Novel Rebecca?

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Who Wrote The Classic Novel Wuthering Heights?

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Mark Twain Is Best Known For Writing Which Classic Novel?

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Who Wrote The Chilling Classic Dracula?

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Which Author Wrote The Handmaid's Tale?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Series Little House On The Prairie?

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George Orwell Wrote Which Famous Dystopian Novel?

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Who Wrote The Sweeping Novel Gone Girl?

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Which Author Wrote The Timeless Classic Anne Of Green Gables?

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Who Wrote The Classic Novel Jane Eyre?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel Beloved?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel Don Quixote?

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Who Wrote The Timeless Novel Middlemarch?

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Which Author Wrote The Classic Novel Catch-22?

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Which Author Wrote The Novel The Call Of The Wild?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel A Wrinkle In Time?

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Which Author Wrote The Classic Novel Crime And Punishment?

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Who Wrote The Classic Novel Treasure Island?

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Who Wrote The Sweeping Epic War And Peace?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel Around The World In 80 Days?

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Which Author Wrote The Timeless Classic The Scarlet Letter?

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Who Wrote The Classic Fairy Tales Cinderella And Sleeping Beauty?

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Who Wrote The Celebrated Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

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Which Author Wrote The Unforgettable Novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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Who Wrote The Spellbinding Novel The Da Vinci Code?

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Who Wrote The Classic Adventure Novel Robinson Crusoe?

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Which Author Wrote The Chilling Novel It?

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Who Wrote The Sweeping Historical Novel Roots?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel The Secret Garden?

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Who Wrote The Famous Play Romeo And Juliet?

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Which Author Wrote The Classic Novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn?

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Who Wrote The Groundbreaking Novel Invisible Man?

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Who wrote Brave New World?

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Who Wrote The Timeless Classic The Count Of Monte Cristo?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel Watership Down?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Fantasy Novel The Hobbit?

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Who Wrote The Sweeping Novel Doctor Zhivago?

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Which Author Created The Beloved Character Hercule Poirot?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel The Catcher In The Rye?

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Which Author Wrote The Classic Novel Madame Bovary?

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Who Wrote The Timeless Classic Gulliver's Travels?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray?

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Which Author Wrote The Classic Novel Les Miserables?

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Which Author Wrote The Chilling Classic The Tell-Tale Heart?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel A Tree Grows In Brooklyn?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel The Alchemist?

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Who Wrote Lord Of The Flies?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel Eat Pray Love?

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Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Memoir The Glass Castle?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel The Joy Luck Club?

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Which Author Wrote The Sweeping Novel Cold Mountain?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel The Bridges Of Madison County?

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Who Wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel The Thorn Birds?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel The Outsiders?

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Who Wrote The Beloved Novel The Kite Runner?

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Who Wrote The Famous Novel The Bell Jar?

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Which Author Wrote The Beloved Novel Where The Crawdads Sing?

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Who Wrote The Sweeping Novel The Pillars Of The Earth?

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Charlotte Bronte

2

Jane Austen

3

Thomas Hardy

4

George Eliot

Jane Austen published Pride And Prejudice in 1813 and originally titled it First Impressions.

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Beverly Cleary

2

E.B. White

3

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Roald Dahl

E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web in 1952 and based the farm on his own property in Maine.

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The Color Purple

2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

3

To Kill A Mockingbird

4

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and reportedly based Atticus Finch on her own father.

1

Ernest Hemingway

2

William Faulkner

3

John Steinbeck

4

F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes Of Wrath in just 100 days and won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

1

Mark Twain

2

Lewis Carroll

3

Robert Louis Stevenson

4

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz in 1900 and wrote 13 more Oz books afterward.

1

Science Fiction

2

Gothic Horror

3

Historical Romances

4

Murder Mysteries

Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time with over two billion books sold worldwide.

1

Stephenie Meyer

2

Philip Pullman

3

J.K. Rowling

4

Judy Blume

J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book while a single mother sitting in Edinburgh cafes.

1

Edna Ferber

2

Pearl S. Buck

3

Margaret Mitchell

4

Willa Cather

Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With The Wind in 1936 and it remains one of the best-selling novels ever published.

1

Elie Wiesel

2

Corrie Ten Boom

3

Anne Frank

4

Irene Gut Opdyke

Anne Frank received her famous red-checked diary as a birthday gift on June 12 1942.

1

Nathaniel Hawthorne

2

Washington Irving

3

James Fenimore Cooper

4

Herman Melville

Herman Melville dedicated Moby Dick to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne and the book flopped when first published.

1

John Dos Passos

2

Ernest Hemingway

3

Sinclair Lewis

4

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925 and it sold poorly during his lifetime.

1

Willa Cather

2

Edith Wharton

3

Louisa May Alcott

4

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Louisa May Alcott based Little Women on her own childhood growing up in Concord Massachusetts.

1

John Updike

2

Ernest Hemingway

3

William Faulkner

4

Theodore Dreiser

Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man And The Sea.

1

Ann Radcliffe

2

Bram Stoker

3

Mary Shelley

4

Edgar Allan Poe

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at just 18 years old during a stormy summer in Switzerland.

1

Legal Thrillers

2

Romance Novels

3

Historical Fiction

4

Science Fiction

John Grisham was a practicing attorney before writing The Firm which launched his bestselling career.

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Thomas Hardy

2

Charles Dickens

3

George Eliot

4

Anthony Trollope

Charles Dickens set A Tale Of Two Cities during the French Revolution and it remains one of history's best-selling novels.

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Wilkie Collins

2

Edgar Wallace

3

G.K. Chesterton

4

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle actually grew tired of Sherlock Holmes and tried to kill him off in 1893.

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The 1980s

2

The 1970s

3

The 2000s

4

The 1990s

Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and her novel Beloved is considered one of America's greatest books.

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Zora Neale Hurston

2

Alice Walker

3

Maya Angelou

4

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 making her the first Black woman to win for fiction.

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Agatha Christie

2

Virginia Woolf

3

Edith Wharton

4

Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier published Rebecca in 1938 and it has never gone out of print since.

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Charlotte Bronte

2

Emily Bronte

3

Jane Austen

4

George Eliot

Emily Bronte published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell.

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The Red Badge Of Courage

2

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

3

The Scarlet Letter

4

The Call Of The Wild

Mark Twain based Tom Sawyer on his own childhood adventures growing up in Hannibal Missouri.

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H.G. Wells

2

Edgar Allan Poe

3

Robert Louis Stevenson

4

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker researched Eastern European folklore for seven years before publishing Dracula in 1897.

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Doris Lessing

2

Ursula K. Le Guin

3

Margaret Atwood

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Joyce Carol Oates

Margaret Atwood wrote every event in The Handmaid's Tale based on something that had already happened in history.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Pearl S. Buck

3

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

4

Willa Cather

Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 years old when her very first Little House book was published in 1932.

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Brave New World

2

Lord Of The Flies

3

1984

4

Fahrenheit 451

George Orwell wrote 1984 while seriously ill and finished it just one year before his death.

1

Jodi Picoult

2

Lisa Gardner

3

Gillian Flynn

4

Nora Roberts

Gillian Flynn wrote Gone Girl in 2012 and it spent eight straight weeks at number one on the bestseller list.

1

L.M. Montgomery

2

Kate Douglas Wiggin

3

Beatrix Potter

4

Frances Hodgson Burnett

L.M. Montgomery was rejected by five publishers before Anne Of Green Gables became a worldwide sensation in 1908.

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Charlotte Bronte

2

Emily Bronte

3

George Eliot

4

Jane Austen

Charlotte Bronte published Jane Eyre in 1847 under the male pen name Currer Bell to be taken seriously.

1

Maya Angelou

2

Zora Neale Hurston

3

Alice Walker

4

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and was inspired by a true historical story.

1

Jorge Luis Borges

2

Miguel De Cervantes

3

Pablo Neruda

4

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Published in 1605 Don Quixote is widely considered the first modern novel ever written.

1

Charlotte Bronte

2

Thomas Hardy

3

George Eliot

4

Anthony Trollope

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans who hid her gender to be taken seriously as a writer.

1

James Jones

2

Kurt Vonnegut

3

Joseph Heller

4

Norman Mailer

Joseph Heller's Catch-22 gave the English language a brand new phrase still used every day.

1

Rudyard Kipling

2

Owen Wister

3

Jack London

4

Zane Grey

Jack London wrote The Call Of The Wild in just a month in 1903 and it became an instant bestseller.

1

Madeleine L'Engle

2

Judy Blume

3

Ursula K. Le Guin

4

Beverly Cleary

A Wrinkle In Time was rejected by 26 publishers before winning the Newbery Medal in 1963.

1

Leo Tolstoy

2

Ivan Turgenev

3

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4

Anton Chekhov

Dostoevsky wrote Crime And Punishment in 1866 while deeply in debt and racing against a publisher's deadline.

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Rudyard Kipling

2

Jules Verne

3

Robert Louis Stevenson

4

Jack London

Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island in 1883 and originally told the story to entertain his stepson.

1

Fyodor Dostoevsky

2

Ivan Turgenev

3

Leo Tolstoy

4

Anton Chekhov

Leo Tolstoy spent six years writing War And Peace and his wife Sofia hand-copied the manuscript eight times.

1

H.G. Wells

2

Jules Verne

3

Arthur Conan Doyle

4

Alexandre Dumas

Jules Verne was so prolific that he wrote over 60 adventure novels and is the second most translated author in history.

1

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2

Herman Melville

3

Washington Irving

4

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was so ashamed of his ancestor's role in the Salem witch trials that he added a W to his last name.

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Aesop

2

The Brothers Grimm

3

Charles Perrault

4

Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Perrault published early literary versions of both tales, making him the most widely credited author for them.

1

Alice Walker

2

Zora Neale Hurston

3

Maya Angelou

4

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in just seven weeks while doing anthropology fieldwork in Haiti.

1

Edith Wharton

2

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3

Louisa May Alcott

4

Willa Cather

President Abraham Lincoln reportedly greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe by saying she was the little woman who started the Civil War.

1

James Patterson

2

John Grisham

3

Dan Brown

4

Michael Crichton

Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code in 2003 and it became one of the best-selling novels in history.

1

Henry Fielding

2

Daniel Defoe

3

Jonathan Swift

4

Samuel Richardson

Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719 and it is widely considered one of the first English novels.

1

Stephen King

2

Anne Rice

3

Peter Straub

4

Dean Koontz

Stephen King published It in 1986 and the terrifying clown Pennywise has scared readers ever since.

1

Ralph Ellison

2

James Baldwin

3

Richard Wright

4

Alex Haley

Alex Haley spent twelve years researching Roots and the 1977 TV miniseries became one of the most watched in American history.

1

Frances Hodgson Burnett

2

Louisa May Alcott

3

Edith Nesbit

4

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Frances Hodgson Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911 and it remains one of the best-loved children's classics ever written.

1

Ben Jonson

2

John Webster

3

William Shakespeare

4

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare wrote Romeo And Juliet around 1594 and it remains the most performed play in the world.

1

Mark Twain

2

Bret Harte

3

O. Henry

4

Jack London

Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn in 1884 and Ernest Hemingway called it the source of all modern American literature.

1

James Baldwin

2

Ralph Ellison

3

Langston Hughes

4

Richard Wright

Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man in 1952 and it won the National Book Award the very following year.

1

George Orwell

2

Aldous Huxley

3

H.G. Wells

4

Ray Bradbury

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in just four months and published it in 1932.

1

Alexandre Dumas

2

Emile Zola

3

Gustave Flaubert

4

Victor Hugo

Alexandre Dumas wrote The Count Of Monte Cristo in 1844 and it remains one of the best-selling novels ever.

1

Roald Dahl

2

J.R.R. Tolkien

3

Richard Adams

4

C.S. Lewis

Richard Adams originally told the story of Watership Down to his daughters on a long car trip in 1966.

1

Jorge Luis Borges

2

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3

Isabel Allende

4

Pablo Neruda

Gabriel Garcia Marquez reportedly pulled over his car and drove home to write this novel after the opening line came to him.

1

Lloyd Alexander

2

T.H. White

3

J.R.R. Tolkien

4

C.S. Lewis

J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote The Hobbit to entertain his own children and published it in 1937.

1

Boris Pasternak

2

Mikhail Bulgakov

3

Leo Tolstoy

4

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Boris Pasternak was forced to decline the Nobel Prize in 1958 after Soviet authorities pressured him over Doctor Zhivago.

1

P.D. James

2

Dorothy L. Sayers

3

Arthur Conan Doyle

4

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie grew so tired of Hercule Poirot that she called him a detestable little creep in her private diary.

1

Kurt Vonnegut

2

J.D. Salinger

3

Jack Kerouac

4

John Updike

J.D. Salinger published the novel in 1951 and it sold over 65 million copies worldwide.

1

Emile Zola

2

Alexandre Dumas

3

Gustave Flaubert

4

Victor Hugo

Gustave Flaubert was actually put on trial for immorality after publishing Madame Bovary in 1857.

1

Samuel Johnson

2

Jonathan Swift

3

Henry Fielding

4

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift originally published Gulliver's Travels in 1726 as a sharp satire of British politics.

1

Wilkie Collins

2

Anthony Trollope

3

Thomas Hardy

4

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's only novel was considered so scandalous in 1890 that editors secretly removed passages before publishing.

1

Emile Zola

2

Stendhal

3

Gustave Flaubert

4

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables in 1862 and it remains one of the longest novels ever written.

1

Herman Melville

2

Nathaniel Hawthorne

3

Edgar Allan Poe

4

Washington Irving

Edgar Allan Poe published The Tell-Tale Heart in 1843 and earned only nine dollars for the story.

1

Willa Cather

2

Betty Smith

3

Edna Ferber

4

Pearl S. Buck

Betty Smith's 1943 debut novel sold over 300000 copies in its first six weeks through a wartime book program.

1

Paulo Coelho

2

Isabel Allende

3

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4

Jorge Luis Borges

Paulo Coelho published The Alchemist in 1988 and it became one of the best-selling books in history.

1

Aldous Huxley

2

Graham Greene

3

John Steinbeck

4

William Golding

William Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 partly for his work on Lord Of The Flies.

1

Cheryl Strayed

2

Nora Ephron

3

Elizabeth Gilbert

4

Brene Brown

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote Eat Pray Love after her divorce and the memoir spent 187 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

1

George Orwell

2

Ray Bradbury

3

Kurt Vonnegut

4

Aldous Huxley

Ray Bradbury chose 451 degrees Fahrenheit because he believed that was the temperature at which paper catches fire.

1

Jeannette Walls

2

Maya Angelou

3

Cheryl Strayed

4

Mary Karr

Jeannette Walls wrote The Glass Castle about her unconventional childhood and it spent over six years on the bestseller list.

1

Celeste Ng

2

Amy Tan

3

Lisa See

4

Maxine Hong Kingston

Amy Tan wrote The Joy Luck Club in 1989 and it was later adapted into a celebrated Hollywood film in 1993.

1

Larry McMurtry

2

Charles Frazier

3

Cormac McCarthy

4

Pat Conroy

Charles Frazier based Cold Mountain on the real Civil War journey of his great-great-uncle W.P. Inman.

1

Danielle Steel

2

Robert James Waller

3

Nora Roberts

4

Nicholas Sparks

Robert James Waller wrote The Bridges Of Madison County in just eleven days and it sold over 50 million copies worldwide.

1

Maya Angelou

2

Zora Neale Hurston

3

Toni Morrison

4

Alice Walker

Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was banned in many schools but remains one of America's most celebrated memoirs.

1

Colleen McCullough

2

Danielle Steel

3

Judith Krantz

4

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Australian author Colleen McCullough published The Thorn Birds in 1977 and it became one of the best-selling novels of that decade.

1

Beverly Cleary

2

S.E. Hinton

3

Lois Lowry

4

Judy Blume

S.E. Hinton was only 15 years old when she began writing The Outsiders and it was published when she was just 18.

1

Jhumpa Lahiri

2

Chimamanda Adichie

3

Khaled Hosseini

4

Arundhati Roy

Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003 and it sold over 38 million copies worldwide.

1

Anne Sexton

2

Carson McCullers

3

Flannery O'Connor

4

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar just one month before her death in February 1963.

1

Delia Owens

2

Kristin Hannah

3

Lisa Jewell

4

Jojo Moyes

Delia Owens was a wildlife scientist for decades before publishing her debut novel at age 70.

1

Edward Rutherfurd

2

James Michener

3

Ken Follett

4

Bernard Cornwell

Ken Follett spent three years researching medieval cathedral architecture before writing a single page of the novel.

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