Literature Quiz 30: Authors and Books Quiz 2

Literature Quiz 30: Authors and Books Quiz 2

Here is another set of questions based on authors who were born in the month of May. 

Authors and Books Quiz 2

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1. Do you know the Persian polymath, who is known for "The Rubaiyat"?

Rumi
Hafez
Ferdowsi
Omar Khayyam

2. This British writer and historian is the creator of the world famous detective Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
Wilkie Collins
G K Chesterton
Earle Stanely Gardner

3. The American novelist and naturalist is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for both fiction and non-fiction. Who is he?

Peter Matthiessen
Philip Roth
Saul Bellow
John Gardner

4. Name the American singer and songwriter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016

Michael Jackson
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan
Ray Charles

5. Best known as the creator of Jason Bourne, he is one of the most-read writers of spy thrillers. Who is he?

Robert Ludlum
John le Carre
Robert Harris
David Baldacci

6. Rachel Carson is an American marine biologist who is well known for her influential book on the adverse effects of indiscriminate use of pesticides. Can you name the book?

The Uninhabitable Earth
The End of Nature
Silent Spring
The Sixth Extinction

7. Name the British-American writer best known for his biographies of United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

Edmund Morris
Oscar Fay Adams
Garland E. Allen
Toy Morrison

8. Who is the creator of the fictional priest-detective "Father Brown"?

G K Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allen Poe
Earle Stanely Gardner

9. The debut novel by Andrew Clements, an American author of children's literature, published in 1996, was the winner of the Phoenix Award for 2016. Name the book

The Report Card
Frindle
Lunch Money
The School Story

10. Winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is the only Australian to have been awarded the prize. His novel, "The Vivisector", was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970. Who is he?

Peter Carey
Tim Winton
Thomas Keneally
Patrick White

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