Books and authors Quiz 2

Books and Authors Quiz 2

This time, the quiz is based on authors who were born in October

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1. Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, this German novelist was a prisoner of war by US during the World War II. He is best know for his debut novel, The Tin Drum.

Herman Hesse
Gunter Grass
Heinrich Heine
Friedrich Nietzsche

2. David John Moore Cornwell is an English author, best known for his espionage novels written under a pen name. "The Spy who Came in from the Cold" remains one of his best-known workks.

Ian Fleming
Ken Follet
Joseph Conrad
John le Carre

3. This English poet, with his friend William Wordswoth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan are his major works.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord Byron
Edgar Allan Poe
William Blake

4. A recipient of M.D. from Harvard Medical School, this famous author did not practice medicine and chose writing. Known for science fiction, techno-thriller and medical fiction novels, his debut novel was The Andromeda Strain. Who is he?

Robin Cook
Michael Crichton
Arthur Hailey
Andy Weir

5. He has been called the "father of English literature". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey. Who is he?

Lord Byron
Alfred Tennyson
John Milton
Robert Frost

6. Recipient of Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982 for her "The Collected Poems", she had also written a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, which was published shortly after her suicide in 1965.

Carol Ann Duffy
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Christina Rossetti

7. Youngest of the romantic poets, he wrote with great insight and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature. He is called poet of the poet of beauty.

William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
P B Shelley
John Keats

8. A steeplechase jockey and crime writer, he is known for his novels featuring horse racing in England.

Dick Francis
Nicholas Evans
Arthur Hailey
Jack London

9. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. Interview with the Vampire was the first book in the series.

Stephenie Meyer
Anne Rice
Cassandra Clare
Lara Adrian

10. Recipient of 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955) are his most popular play

Arthur Miller
Neil Simon
Edward Albee
Eugene O'Neill

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