Literature

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She described her work as "Human nature in the Midland Countries" & involving "three or four families in a country village"

Jane Austen

She's interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. near her sisters, who were models for Beth & Meg

Louisa May Alcott

The success of "Little Women" prompted her to write in her journal, "paid up all the debts, thank the lord!"

Louisa May Alcott

This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters

Louisa May Alcott

Besides the title role in "The Bride of Frankenstein ", Elsa Lanchester also played this writer

Mary Shelley

The same year his "The Last of the Mohicans" was published, he was named U.S. Consul at Lyon, France

James Fenimore Cooper

Alex Cross

James Patterson

Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7

Pearl Buck

He rescues Friday from cannibals & later rescues Friday's father as well

Robinson Crusoe

In a 1719 sequel, he & his manservant revisit the island where he was shipwrecked

Robinson Crusoe

His novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was based on his own struggles in a Siberian labor camp

Solzhenitsyn

Lev Rubin in this Soviet dissident's "The First Circle" was based on 1960s Russian civil rights figure Lev Kopelev

Solzhenitsyn

This author describes "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" at a Stalinist labor camp

Solzhenitsyn

The hero's clubfoot in "Of Human Bondage" represented this author's stammer

Somerset Maugham

While serving as an ambulance driver during WWI, he finished his novel "Of Human Bondage"

Somerset Maugham

This Kenneth Grahame novel began as a series of bedtime tales told to his son starting in 1904

The Wind In The Willows

The adventures of Rat, Mole, Toad & Badger are told in this 1908 British book

The Wind in the Willows

The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic

The Wind in the Willows

While teaching Russian literature at Cornell, he wrote his famous novel "Lolita"

Vladimir Nabokov

"Other Voices, Other Rooms" was this author's 1st published novel

Truman Capote

He said it took him "Five years to write 'In Cold Bloo

Truman Capote

In 1845 he published "The Raven and Other Poems"; the other poems include "The Conqueror Worm"

Edgar Allan Poe

Manet did illustrations for a French translation of this author's poem "The Raven"

Edgar Allan Poe

"I am Tarzan of the apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine"

Edgar Rice Burroughs

As a war correspondant, this Tarzan creator witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include "Jungle Battles", "His Own Kind" & "The Call of the Primitive"

Edgar Rice Burroughs

During WWII this Tarzan creator worked as a correspondent for the L.A. Times

Edgar Rice Burroughs

"The House of Mirth", "Ethan Frome"

Edith Wharton

Born Edith Newbold Jones, she published "The House of Mirth" under this, her married name

Edith Wharton

Her major works, including "The Age of Innocence", were written while living in France, where she moved in 1907

Edith Wharton

She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English

Edith Wharton

Sinclair Lewis dedicated "Babbitt" to this author of "The Age of Innocence"

Edith Wharton

This "Age of Innocence" author launched her career with a how-to book on "The Decoration of Houses"

Edith Wharton

Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words†by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent meâ€

Ernest Hemingway

He dedicated “Across The River And Into The Trees†“to Mary with loveâ€

Ernest Hemingway

"Absalom, Absalom!"

Faulkner

John Updike called this author's "The Metamorphosis" "An indubitable masterpiece"

Franz Kafka

The Prague tombstone of this German-language writer who died in 1924 is inscribed in Hebrew

Franz Kafka

If his "Time Machine" took you back to the 1880s, you'd find him working as an apprentice draper

H.G. Wells

"I had no idea of originating an American flapper... I simply took girls whom I knew very well" & "used them for my heroines"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"This Side of Paradise"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Budd Schulberg based the alcoholic central character of "The Disenchanted" on this "Gatsby" author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio

H.G. Wells

Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine"

H.G. Wells

In this Orwell novel, the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war

1984

This 1949 novel features a society dominated by such slogans as "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"

1984

Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it

Anne Rice

In 1998 her "Pandora" came out of the box as the first of her "New Tales of the Vampires"

Anne Rice

This author seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1997-11-27_DJ_22.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> was born Howard Allen O'Brien; her name was soon changed [Woman with fairly short black hair shown]

Anne Rice

With "Pandora", she recently began a new series of vampire tales

Anne Rice

"Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author

Charles Dickens

"It's all right, Miles," Spade told him. "Come in. Miss Wonderly, this is Mr. Archer, my partner"

Dashiell Hammett

The book-of-the-month club calls this Dostoyevsky work "the greatest crime novel ever written"

Crime and Punishment

The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker & her sister by Raskolnikov

Crime and Punishment

In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover

Dashiell Hammett

In 1965 Lillian Hellman re-issued 5 of his detective novels

Dashiell Hammett

The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo"

Don Quixote

This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests

Don Quixote

This character's squire was Sancho Panza

Don Quixote

This knight errant's steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor

Don Quixote

"'My goodness! My gracious!' they shouted. 'My word! It's something brand new! It's an elephant-bird'"

Dr. Seuss

"The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in 1953 was the 1st live-action feature film from this author's works; a 2nd was released in 2000

Dr. Seuss

A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham"

Dr. Seuss

His unladylike horror story "The Cask of Amontillado" was first published in Godey's Lady's Book, in 1846

(Edgar Allan) Poe

This author's old third-floor room at 85 W. 3rd in Greenwich Village is haunted; residents hear "tell-tale" signs

(Edgar Allan) Poe

A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in this American author's 1840s story "Rappaccini's Daughter"

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, one of his ancestors was a judge at the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story "Endicott and the Red Cross"

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

"Princess Daisy"

Judith Krantz

Following up her 1978 bestseller, she dished out "Scruples Two" in '92

Judith Krantz

From 1949-1956 this "Princess Daisy" author was a fashion editor for Good Housekeeping

Judith Krantz

One of his last collections of tales, "Uncle Remus and the Little Boy", was published posthumously in 1910

Joel Chandler Harris

He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000

John Grisham

He wrote "A Time To Kill" while serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives

John Grisham

In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client

John Grisham

In 1997 this author of "The Firm" & "The Rainmaker" published a new legal thriller, "The Partner"

John Grisham

In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts"

John Grisham

With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer"

John Grisham

"In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases", wrote this novelist

John Irving

"The 158-Pound Marriage", "The Cider House Rules", "A Son of the Circus"

John Irving

Before he was famous he drove around with a license plate that read "Garp"

John Irving

He said his 1994 novel "A Son of the Circus" "Isn't about India. I don't know India. I was there only once"

John Irving

A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962

John Steinbeck

He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream"

John Steinbeck

He led a marine biology expedition to Baja California & later wrote about it in "The Sea of Cortez"

John Steinbeck

He was born in Salinas, California; his father was treasurer of Monterey County

John Steinbeck

Shortly after "The Grapes of Wrath" was published, he embarked on an expedition to Mexico

John Steinbeck

The author who wrote "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink"

John Steinbeck

His 1996 book "Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf" includes excerpts from his "Rabbit" novels

John Updike

In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur"

John Updike

With his "Rabbit At Rest", he turned to today's news for his 2006 novel "Terrorist"

John Updike

Among his novels featuring spy George Smiley are "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" & "Smiley's People"

John le Carré

In 1996 this author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" spun a new story, "The Tailor of Panama"

John le Carré

The success of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" allowed him to quit the foreign office to write full time

John le Carré

Edgar Stillman Kelley's symphony "Gulliver" was inspired by a novel by this satirist

Jonathan Swift

In 1726, he received 200 pounds for his tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the only time he was paid for his writing

Jonathan Swift

In 1745 he bequeathed his estate to be used for the founding of a hospital for the mentally ill in Dublin

Jonathan Swift

In his journal of 1710 to 1713, he referred to himself as "Presto"

Jonathan Swift

Made dean of St. Pat's @ Dublin. Will pen "Travels". Pls publish "Journal to Stella" after my death

Jonathan Swift

The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22)

Joseph Heller

When he began writing "Catch-22", he was an advertising writer for TIME magazine

Joseph Heller

"We Were The Mulvaneys" is one of this Princeton professor's more than 25 novels since 1964

Joyce Carol Oates

20th century American critic & novelist Carol

Joyce Carol Oates

Her 2000 novel "Blonde" is, of course, about Marilyn Monroe

Joyce Carol Oates

In 2001 this novelist & short story writer's "We Were the Mulvaneys" was chosen for Oprah's Book Club

Joyce Carol Oates

She says her Gothic-style novels, like "Bellefleur", are "not exactly parodies" but "parodistic"

Joyce Carol Oates

She said, “I didn't realize I had an imagination until I wrote ‘Scruples’â€

Judith Krantz

This 19th century sci-fi writer foretold the artificial satellite in his story "The Begum's Fortune"

Jules Verne

This author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" also wrote librettos for operettas

Jules Verne

In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him

Michael Crichton

This novelist who wrote about gorillas in "Congo" is on the board of the Gorilla Foundation

Michael Crichton

Peer Gynt, the title character of his 1867 play, is based on a legendary Norwegian folk hero

Ibsen

This Norwegian was in his early 20s when he wrote his first play, "Catalina", in 1850

Ibsen

"A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Esmeralda earns her living by dancing with her goat, Djali, in this novel

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Quasimodo gets plastic surgery & really rings Esmeralda's bell

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A"

The Scarlet Letter

The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom"

The Scarlet Letter

Poet who wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out"

Robert Frost

This poet's annual Christmas greeting for 1949 featured "On a tree fallen across the road"

Robert Frost

Though he won a Pulitzer for "New Hampshire", you'll find this poet's remains in a cemetery in Vermont

Robert Frost

The Samoans built a road to this novelist's house called “The Road of the Loving Heartâ€

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Samoans gave him the title "Tusitala", or "Teller of Tales"

Robert Louis Stevenson

This "Kidnapped" author wrote about a real journey he made in "Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes"

Robert Louis Stevenson

This "Treasure Island" author's "Silverado Squatters" was based on the journal he kept on his honeymoon

Robert Louis Stevenson

1719 novel about a mariner who lived 8 & 20 years all alone in an uninhabited island

Robinson Crusoe

He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From The Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester

Thomas Hardy

He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From the Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester

Thomas Hardy

In his youth, this author of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" played the fiddle at weddings & dances

Thomas Hardy

Roman Polanski's film "Tess" was based on his novel "Tess of the D' Urbervilles"

Thomas Hardy

The title of his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" is found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Thomas Hardy

This "Return of the Native" author's first novel, "Desperate Remedies", was published in 1871

Thomas Hardy

"You Can't Go Home Again" until you name this author who wrote it

Thomas Wolfe

He was born at home Oct. 3, 1900 in Asheville, N.C. & later found out you can't go home again

Thomas Wolfe

His "The Bonfire of the Vanities" was first published as a serial in Rolling Stone

Thomas Wolfe

His lover, stage designer Aline Bernstein, helped him publish "Look Homeward, Angel"

Thomas Wolfe

In Asheville his gravestone bears the line "The last voyage, the longest, the best" from "Look Homeward, Angel"

Thomas Wolfe

The New York Times Magazine has called him "King of the Techno-Thriller"

Tom Clancy

In 1894 Mark Twain took this character "Abroad"; 2 years later, he became a "Detective"

Tom Sawyer

In an 1896 sequel, this Mark Twain title character turned "Detective"

Tom Sawyer

In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!"

Treasure Island

Controversial even when serialized in the "National Era", it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

This "Lolita" author remembers his childhood in St. Petersburg in his memoir "Speak, Memory"

Vladimir Nabokov

Like Dickens, this "Vanity Fair" contemporary left his last novel, "Denis Duval", unfinished

William Makepeace Thackeray

In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car

The Great Gatsby

One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was "Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires"

The Great Gatsby

This 1925 novel contains the line "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy"

The Great Gatsby

Buried treasure found on an islet in the Tuscan Archipelago makes this character wealthy

the Count of Monte Cristo

In an 1844 novel, Edmond Dantes disguises himself as Abbe Busoni & this title noble

the Count of Monte Cristo

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character

the Great Gatsby

"A Journal of the Plague Year" by D.D.

Daniel Defoe

"For never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant, than Friday was to me"

Daniel Defoe

1720's "The Adventures of Captain Singleton" was his next novel after "Robinson Crusoe"

Daniel Defoe

After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him"

Daniel Defoe

Published in 1724, his last major work of fiction was "Roxana", about a courtesan, not a castaway

Daniel Defoe

Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault

Albert Camus

"After Many A Summer Dies the Swan" is a 1939 novel by this author of "Brave New World"

Aldous Huxley

Before he disappeared in 1914, this "Dictionary" writer penned such ghost stories as "The Haunted Valley"

Ambrose Bierce

His works about the war include the essay "What I Saw of Shiloh" & the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Ambrose Bierce

In his "Devil's Dictionary", a bore is defined as "A person who talks when you wish him to listen"

Ambrose Bierce

He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871

Theodore Dreiser

His 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" was based on a real life murder case

Theodore Dreiser

Published in 1915, "The 'Genius' " is a semi-autobiographical novel by this author of "Sister Carrie"

Theodore Dreiser

Songwriter Paul Dresser, who changed the spelling of his name, was this "Sister Carrie" author's brother

Theodore Dreiser

It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain"

Agatha Christie

It's no mystery that she was born in 1890 in Devon, England, wrote 67 novels under this name & 6 as Mary Westmacott

Agatha Christie

It's no mystery that this Englishwoman wrote romantic fiction under the pen name Mary Westmacott

Agatha Christie

Astronaut Dave Bowman is brought back to life in his recent novel "3001: The Final Odyssey"

Arthur C. Clarke

He helped cover the Apollo 12 & 15 space missions with Walter Cronkite & Wally Schirra

Arthur C. Clarke

He won a Hugo Award for a 1973 novel

Arthur C. Clarke

He wrote the "2001", "2010", "2061" & "3001" Odyssey books

Arthur C. Clarke

In January 1999 this author issued a public statement reminding the world the third millennium really begins Jan. 1, 2001

Arthur C. Clarke

This author of "2010: Odyssey Two" sold his first science fiction stories while in the RAF during WWII

Arthur C. Clarke

"A Tangled Skein" was this author's original title for "A Study in Scarlet"

Arthur Conan Doyle

After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist

Arthur Conan Doyle

In addition to "A Study in Scarlet" & "The White Company", his stories include the spooky "The Brown Hand"

Arthur Conan Doyle

After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes King of the Geats & rules for 50 years

Beowulf

Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat

Beowulf

Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created

Beowulf

From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic

H.G. Wells

He wrote his 1848 novel "Dombey and Son" while living in Switzerland

Charles Dickens

His "Pickwick Papers" was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz

Charles Dickens

In 1858 W.M. Thackeray quarreled with this author in the so-called Garrick Club Affair

Charles Dickens

Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies

Canada

This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities"

Charles Dickens

"David Copperfield" is considered his most autobiographical novel

Charles Dickens

"Shadows On The Grass" is a collection of African vignettes by this Danish baroness

Isak Dinesen

Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke

Isak Dinesen

Male pen name used by Danish baroness Karen Blixen for "Out Of Africa"

Isak Dinesen

He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's 1956 Grand National Steeplechase when his horse gave out

Dick Francis

"1984" was a 1949 book by Eric Blair written under this pen name

George Orwell

He became a Roman Catholic 14 years before publishing "The Power and the Glory"

Graham Greene

He wrote "Our Man in Havana" & "The Third Man" as well as the screenplays for them

Graham Greene

His 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" takes place in pre-Castro Cuba

Graham Greene

This author of espionage novels like "Our Man in Havana" was a popular candidate for the prize

Graham Greene

A trip to India inspired his 1922 novel "Siddhartha"

Hermann Hesse

A visit to India inspired <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-04-11_DJ_06.jpg" target="_blank">his</a> novel "Siddhartha", published in German in 1922

Hermann Hesse

One review called his "Steppenwolf" "the ultimate novel of intellect in despair"

Hermann Hesse

"Cross", a 2006 bestseller, is his 12th thriller featuring Alex Cross

James Patterson

His Alex Cross thrillers include "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue"

James Patterson

Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years

James Patterson

This "Kiss The Girls" author also wrote the jingle "I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid"

James Patterson

"Slaughterhouse Five" (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut

Besides "The Prince", he is also known for his "Discourses on" Livy

Machiavelli

In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved"

Machiavelli

In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…"

Machiavelli

Sebastian de Grazia's Pulitzer-winning bio of this Italian "In Hell" mentions "The Prince" in 2 chapter titles

Machiavelli

19th century American essayist & novelist David

Henry David Thoreau

Charles Ives named the fourth movement of his "Concord Sonata" for this man who pondered a pond

Henry David Thoreau

Emerson encouraged me to start keeping a journal, which I did until a few months before my death in 1862

Henry David Thoreau

From 1845 to 1847 he lived in a cabin he built on the shore of Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau

He hated "busyness" & built the cabin he lived in: A very hidden author

Henry David Thoreau

In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"

Henry David Thoreau

The land on which he built a small cabin in 1845 was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

This pal of Emerson was known for a little "Civil Disobedience"

Henry David Thoreau

Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled"

Henry David Thoreau

"The Bostonians" by H.J.

Henry James

1904's "The Golden Bowl" was one of my last novels; I later became a British subject

Henry James

After moving to Europe, this New Yorker wrote his 1890 novel "The Tragic Muse" about the art world of Europe

Henry James

Anne Edwards' biography of this author is titled "Road to Tara"

Margaret Mitchell

He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839

Mark Twain

He wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as a sequel to "Tom Sawyer"

Mark Twain

Sadly, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just 10 days after her birth

Mary Shelley

She met poet Percy in the spring of 1814, eloped to France with him in July & married him in 1816

Mary Shelley

"Rappaccini's Daughter" is one of the short stories featured in his "Mosses From An Old Manse"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Celestial Railroad" from his "Twice-Told Tales" is a parody of John Bunyan's works

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Pygmies" & "The Pomegranate Seeds" are 2 of his "Tanglewood Tales"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

He gave Hester a scarlet "A"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

His last completed novel, "The Marble Faun", was published in 1860

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roger Chillingworth, Ethan Brand, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 1900 he published his first collection of stories, "The Son of the Wolf"

Jack London

In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy

Oliver Twist

This "parish boy" hero is born in a workhouse & becomes one of Fagin's thieves

Oliver Twist

This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"

Oliver Twist

This Dickens title orphan was given his name by Mr. Bumble

Oliver Twist

<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-12-25_DJ_02.jpg" target="_blank">She</a>'s noted for her novels of life in China

Pearl Buck

She's buried at her Penn. farm, & the name on her tombstone is written in Chinese rather than English

Pearl Buck

This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself

Pearl Buck

This author of "The House of Spirits" once worked for the U.N.'s food & agriculture organization

Isabel Allende

In 1905 this "Call of the Wild" author ran for mayor of Oakland, California as a Socialist

Jack London

Born in 1547, this Spanish author always craved the fame of his contemporary Lope de Vega

Cervantes

Chapter 83 of this Herman Melville novel is entitled "Jonah Historically Regarded"

"Moby Dick"

In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to "chase that white whale on both sides of land"

"Moby Dick"

Novel in which Ishmael, feeling "a damp, drizzly November" in his soul, goes to work on a whaler

"Moby Dick"

Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel

"Moby Dick"

"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me"

A.A. Milne

Author seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-06-21_FJ.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> with his son

A.A. Milne

He based many of his children's stories on his son Christopher Robin & the boy's stuffed toys

A.A. Milne

He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young"

A.A. Milne

His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders"

A.A. Milne

In "Vespers" he wrote, "Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Christopher Robin is saying his prayers"

A.A. Milne

In 1922 he published "The Red House Mystery"; in 1928 "The House At Pooh Corner"

A.A. Milne

Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore

A.A. Milne

"Curtain: Poirot's last case" was supposed to be published after her death but was released during her lifetime

Agatha Christie

"Sleeping Murder", her last Miss Jane Marple novel, was published posthumously in 1976

Agatha Christie

"The Mirror Crack'd" is one of several of her novels to feature Miss Jane Marple

Agatha Christie

Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas"

Agatha Christie

In 1930, 2 years after divorcing Archibald Christie, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan

Agatha Christie

In 1954 she became the first recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America

Agatha Christie

"Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body...swung gently from...the Owl Creek Bridge"

Ambrose Bierce

Author of "The Devil's Dictionary", at 71 he went south of the border & was never seen again

Ambrose Bierce

"The Moon Lady" was the first children's book by this author of "The Joy Luck Club"

Amy Tan

On a 1987 trip to China, this author of "The Joy Luck Club" met 2 of her half-sisters for the first time

Amy Tan

She departed from the theme of Chinese-American mothers & daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish From Drowning"

Amy Tan

She turned her short story collection "Wind and Water" into the bestseller "The Joy Luck Club"

Amy Tan

This author of "The Joy Luck Club" was born in California shortly after her parents immigrated to the U.S.

Amy Tan

"Three Sisters" (1901)

Anton Chekhov

"The Thorn Birds"

Colleen McCullough

"The Rainbow" by D.H.L.

D.H. Lawrence

He completed "The Brothers Karamazov" shortly before his 1881 death in St. Petersburg

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1726: "Where in the World Is Lemuel?"

Gulliver's Travels

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-07-02_J_26.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.</a>) In one translation of an 1868 work, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-07-02_J_26a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name"

Hans Christian Andersen

First editions of his "The Portrait of A Lady" & "The Bostonians" each have 3 voulmes

Henry James

His novel "Daisy Miller" opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland

Henry James

The "Iliad", The "Odyssey"

Homer

A 1900 collection of his short stories was titled "The Son of the Wolf"

Jack London

During the Russo-Japanese War, this "Call of the Wild" author served as a reporter for Hearst

Jack London

In addition to Buck & White Fang, this author wrote about Jerry, an Irish terrier pup

Jack London

Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection "Lost Face"

Jack London

"Buffalo Girls" & "The Evening Star" are among this "Lonesome Dove" author's recent novels

Larry McMurtry

"Horseman, Pass By", the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie "Hud" in 1963

Larry McMurtry

Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie

Larry McMurtry

He set "The Last Picture Show" & "Texasville" in the fictional town of Thalia

Larry McMurtry

He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment"

Larry McMurtry

2 old Quakers, Captain Peleg & Captain Bildad, are part-owners of the Pequod in this 1851 novel

Moby Dick

"Morning, Noon & Night" was a 1995 bestseller by this author of "The Other Side of Midnight"

Sidney Sheldon

"The Sign of Four" (1890)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1970: "For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions" of Russian literature

Solzhenitsyn

He was imprisoned after writing a letter critical of Stalin & wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" on his experiences

Solzhenitsyn

Although this "Of Human Bondage" author earned a medical degree, he never practiced medicine

Somerset Maugham

He based "The Moon and Sixpence" on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British

Somerset Maugham

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

Stephen Crane

He wrote "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "The Blue Hotel" & "The Red Badge of Courage"

Stephen Crane

1992: "Waiting to Exhale"

Terry McMillan

Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right

Terry McMillan

She co-wrote the screen adaptation of her 1996 novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"

Terry McMillan

This "Waiting To Exhale" author's first published novel was 1987's "Mama"

Terry McMillan

"The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories

The Canterbury Tales

It consists of a story-telling contest to pass the time on a trip to the shrine of St. Thomas A Becket

The Canterbury Tales

Late 14th century: "A Miller, a Reeve & a Nun Walk into a Bar"

The Canterbury Tales

Russell, a fox, appears in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of this Chaucer work

The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, the Friar's Tale, & the Nun's Priest's Tale are part of this larger group

The Canterbury Tales

Stephen Crane established his reputation with this novel of the Civil War

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane subtitled this novel "An Episode of the American Civil War"

The Red Badge of Courage

This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"

The Red Badge of Courage

This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"

The Red Badge of Courage

"The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel

The Scarlet Letter

A puritanical tale: "A Note From Miss Johansson"

The Scarlet Letter

Characters in this Hemingway novel include Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley & Pedro Romero, a bullfighter

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway took the title of this novel about journalist Jake Barnes from a passage in Ecclesiastes

The Sun Also Rises

Jake Barnes gets a prescription for Viagra & settles down with Lady Brett Ashley

The Sun Also Rises

In 1998 he brought back ex-Navy Seal & former CIA agent John Clark in the techno-thriller "Rainbow Six"

Tom Clancy

"L'art d'etre grand-pere" is a not so miserables poetry collection by this author

Victor Hugo

His poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" says, "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above"

William Butler Yeats

In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!"

Willa Cather

James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Pioneers" & she wrote "O Pioneers!"

Willa Cather

Pioneering Nebraska novelist seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-02-14_J_07.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> in 1915

Willa Cather

She dedicated "O Pioneers!" to her fellow novelist Sarah Orne Jewett

Willa Cather

She set "Death Comes For The Archbishop" in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie

Willa Cather

She wrote for the Nebraska State Journal & the Pittsburgh Leader before penning "My Antonia"

Willa Cather

Ray Bradbury & producer-dir. John Huston co-wrote the screenplay based on this Melville classic

"Moby Dick"

The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg

"Moby Dick"

Book one of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Shimerdas"

"My Antonia"

Novel in which Willa Cather wrote, "The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family" in the area

"My Antonia"

The title of this Willa Cather novel refers to a certain Ms. Shimerda

"My Antonia"

When Antonia Shimerda is introduced in this novel, she's "a girl of fourteen" with curly, wild-looking hair

"My Antonia"

Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel

"The Red Badge of Courage"

Many are ready to demonstrate their bravery at the start of this 1895 Stephen Crane novel

"The Red Badge of Courage"

Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23

"The Red Badge of Courage"

This Stephen Crane novel is set during the Battle of Chancellorsville

"The Red Badge of Courage"

Union soldier Henry Fleming is the hero of this 1895 Civil War novel

"The Red Badge of Courage"

"'All for one and one for all!' 'Excellent!' cried D'Artagnan"

(Alexandre) Dumas

Called "a French Sir Walter Scott", he's known for novels such as "Les Trois Mousquetaires"

(Alexandre) Dumas

He wrote "The 3 Musketeers"; his son wrote "Camille"

(Alexandre) Dumas

The "pere" of this 19th c. French novelist was born out of wedlock to a marquis & a black slave woman of Santo Domingo

(Alexandre) Dumas

C. Auguste Dupin

(Edgar Allan) Poe

He pondered weak & weary over many a curious volume at 230 N. Amity Street in Baltimore

(Edgar Allan) Poe

He responded to an admirer that "Nothing was omitted in 'Marie Roget' but what I omitted myself"

(Edgar Allan) Poe

19th c. author known for writing about a "venerable mansion" with "seven acutely peaked gables"

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne

1949: "Big Brother & The Holding Co.: A Winston Smith Novel"

1984

I sat there with Winston / We sat there, we 2 / But when busted for thoughtcrime / I knew I was through

1984

This author who wrote about "The Princess Who Could Not Laugh" made us smile with "Winnie-the-Pooh"

A.A. Milne

In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire

Agatha Christie

She described "And Then There Were None" as "a better piece of craftsmanship than anything else" she wrote

Agatha Christie

She gave her share of the film rights to "Witness For The Prosecution" to her daughter Rosalind

Agatha Christie

She introduced Hercule Poirot in her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

Agatha Christie

She introduced Hercule Poirot in her very first novel, "The Mysterious Affair At Styles"

Agatha Christie

"The Stranger", "The Plague"

Albert Camus

1957: This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague"

Albert Camus

A rat infestation takes its toll on a French town in this Algerian-born author's "The Plague"

Albert Camus

Algerian-born Frenchman who wrote "The Stranger" before he worked for the resistance during WWII

Albert Camus

He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957

Albert Camus

His "Myth of Sisyphus" outlined his theory of the absurd

Albert Camus

A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man

Aldous Huxley

An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian

Aldous Huxley

He based Mark Rampion in "Point Counter Point" on his friend D.H. Lawrence; Philip Quarles was based on himself

Aldous Huxley

In 1937 this "Brave New World" author left Europe for a new home in the United States

Aldous Huxley

This "Brave New World" author's 1921 novel "Crome Yellow" abounds with eccentric characters

Aldous Huxley

After his return to Russia in 1994, this former dissident was given his own TV talk show

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After several years living in Vermont, he returned to Russia amid fanfare in 1994

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

His novel "Cancer Ward" originally was banned in the Soviet Union

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This "Gulag Archipelago" writer taught mathematics while in exile in central Asia

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was "told to" this deeply rooted author

Alex Haley

A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews†in 1962

Alex Haley

He's the former Coast Guard journalist seen here who helped popularize genealogy

Alex Haley

His 1988 book "A Different Kind of Christmas" was based on a story outline for the TV film "Roots: The Gift"

Alex Haley

"For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The Color Purple"

Alice Walker

"The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart" is a largely autobiographical story collection by this "Color Purple" author

Alice Walker

Anthropologists pose as missionaries in "By The Light of My Father's Smile" by this author of "The Color Purple"

Alice Walker

Her fourth novel, "The Temple of My Familiar", featured several characters from "The Color Purple"

Alice Walker

She taught Black Studies at Jackson State College before she wrote "The Color Purple"

Alice Walker

This African-American author's works include the 500,000-year-spanning "Temple of My Familiar"

Alice Walker

"I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less"

Anne Rice

"Memnoch The Devil" is the fifth book in this author's "Vampire Chronicles"

Anne Rice

"Memnoch The Devil", "The Queen Of The Damned", "Interview With The Vampire"

Anne Rice

"The Tale of the Body Thief" is this author's fourth & latest novel about the vampire Lestat

Anne Rice

1990: "The Witching Hunt"

Anne Rice

Among the items that have been sold on her website are a Coven party fan & Lestat cologne & wine

Anne Rice

On "You Made Me A Bloodsucking Monster!", vampires Lestat & Louis confront their creator, this author

Anne Rice

On Halloween one of her fan clubs hosts a "Gathering of the Coven" party in New Orleans

Anne Rice

She called her book "Vittorio the Vampire" a vampire version of "Romeo and Juliet"

Anne Rice

She leaves vampires behind for the tale of an ancient Babylonian spirit in "Servant of the Bones"

Anne Rice

She published "Exit To Eden" under the pen name Anne Rampling

Anne Rice

She says that "Blood Canticle" just may be her last Vampire Chronicle

Anne Rice

The vampire Lestat takes a journey through Hell in her 1995 novel "Memnoch the Devil"

Anne Rice

This author created the Vampire Lestat, the "bad boy of the bloodsucking world"

Anne Rice

He insisted "The Cherry Orchard" was "A comedy, in places even a farce"; some may disagree

Anton Chekhov

In a work by this dramatist, Trepliov kills a sea gull, the symbol of his broken dreams

Anton Chekhov

Written in 1900, "In the Ravine" is one of this Russian playwright's finest stories

Anton Chekhov

It's no mystery; he was knighted in 1902 for his work defending British policy in the Boer War

Arthur Conan Doyle

This British physician and novelist based his Holmes character on one of his university professors

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Schindler's List" maker Thomas Keneally

Australia

Colleen McCullough used to drive a bus in this, her native country

Australia

Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country

Australia

The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture

Australia

"Atlas Shrugged" is the fullest fictional presentation of this author's philosophy, objectivism

Ayn Rand

Her novel "The Fountainhead" was rejected by 12 publishers, some of whom declared it too controversial

Ayn Rand

In "The Fountainhead", she wrote "Great men can't be ruled"

Ayn Rand

In 1949 she adapted her novel "The Fountainhead" for the big screen

Ayn Rand

She dedicated both "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" to Frank O'Connor

Ayn Rand

She once said "The Fountainhead" was "only an overture" to her "Atlas Shrugged"

Ayn Rand

She published her last novel, "Atlas Shrugged" in 1957, when she was 52

Ayn Rand

"The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies" was a follow-up to her stories of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny

Beatrix Potter

Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits

Beatrix Potter

Illustrator of Flowers & Fungi, she also wrote children's tales like "Peter Rabbit"

Beatrix Potter

Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists

Beatrix Potter

She always kept rabbits on her farm, Hill Top, so children wouldn't be disappointed if they stopped for a visit

Beatrix Potter

She illustrated the piggies seen here

Beatrix Potter

The illustrator of 1902's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"

Beatrix Potter

The real first name of this Peter Rabbit creator was Helen

Beatrix Potter

This author of "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" looked a bit like Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle when she wore a frilled white cap

Beatrix Potter

Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971

Beatrix Potter

The hero of this Old English poem dies killing a dragon that attacked his people, the Geats

Beowulf

The title character of this epic poem is the nephew of King Hygelac of the Geats

Beowulf

He based Lara in "Dr. Zhivago" on his mistress Olga Ivinskaya

Boris Pasternak

His "Dr. Zhivago" aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said "Nyet" to the Nobel Prize in 1958

Boris Pasternak

Published in 1931, "Safe Conduct" is an autobiographical work by this "Doctor Zhivago" author

Boris Pasternak

This "Doctor Zhivago" author's father, Leonid, was a painter & illustrator of Tolstoy's works

Boris Pasternak

While he wrote a lot of poems, "Doctor Zhivago" was his only novel

Boris Pasternak

"The Lady Of The Shroud", "The Mystery Of The Sea", "Dracula"

Bram Stoker

His 1904 horror novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars" is much less famous than his "Dracula"

Bram Stoker

His first novel, "The Snake's Pass", was published in 1890, 7 years before "Dracula"

Bram Stoker

Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania

Bram Stoker

1938's "Out Of The Silent Planet" was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator

C.S. Lewis

A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books

C.S. Lewis

Books based on his BBC Radio lectures during WWII include "The Screwtape Letters" & "Mere Christianity"

C.S. Lewis

He called his fifth Narnia novel "The Horse and His Boy"

C.S. Lewis

His "Screwtape Letters" & other works examining Christianity were first heard on the BBC or serialized in newspapers

C.S. Lewis

Dorothy Livesay, a native of this North American country, won the Governor General's Award for poetry twice

Canada

From 1967 to 1978 Joyce Carol Oates taught English at the University of Windsor in this country

Canada

Sir John Buchan wrote "The 39 Steps" before he became Governor-General of this North American country

Canada

A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author

Cervantes

He used incidents from his captivity as a pirates' slave for "Don Quixote"

Cervantes

In "Exemplary Tales", a 1613 collection, he claimed to be the first to write short stories in Castilian

Cervantes

In a 1605 prologue, this Spaniard tells the reader that he has written an "invective against books of chivalry"

Cervantes

It took him 10 years to come out with "Don Quixote Part II"

Cervantes

Published in 1613, his "Exemplary Tales" are believed to be the first short stories written in Castilian

Cervantes

This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle

Cervantes

"Dombey and Son", "Hard Times", "Our Mutual Friend"

Charles Dickens

4 years before writing "Little Dorrit", he wrote his wife that their daughter "Little Dora...is suddenly stricken ill"

Charles Dickens

Of all his books, he said he liked "David Copperfield" the best

Charles Dickens

Queen Victoria called his death "A very great loss. He had ... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes"

Charles Dickens

Readers in 1860-61 picked up copies of "All The Year Round" to read installments of his "Great Expectations"

Charles Dickens

This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished

Charles Dickens

Wilkins Micawber, Samuel Pickwick, Bob Cratchit

Charles Dickens

As a medical student at Moscow University, he wrote stories under the name Antosha Chekhonte

Chekhov

By 1890 this author & playwright had written hundreds of short stories, including "The Steppe"

Chekhov

He wrote his last short story, "The Betrothed", shortly before his play "The Cherry Orchard"

Chekhov

Perhaps best known for his plays, such as "Uncle Vanya", he was also a famed short-story writer

Chekhov

Credited to Luo Guanzhong, "All Men Are Brothers" is a famous tale about an outlaw gang of this country

China

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" sang its sweet melodies for the emperor of this country

China

J.G. Ballard's experiences in this country during World War II shaped his novel "Empire of the Sun"

China

Li Po, who lived over 1,000 years ago, was one of this country's greatest poets

China

Many say that Tu Fu was this country's greatest poet

China

In "The October Horse", this "Thorn Birds" author recounts the romance of Caesar & Cleopatra

Colleen McCullough

The latest tome from this author of "Tim" is "The First Man in Rome"

Colleen McCullough

This "Thorn Birds" author is an admitted Scrabbleholic; she likes to play daily

Colleen McCullough

Dostoevski novel in which Raskolnikov, a young student, kills an old woman pawnbroker

Crime And Punishment

"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake" refers to a murderer in this 1866 novel

Crime and Punishment

In this 1866 Dostoevsky novel, a student named Raskolnikov murders an old woman pawnbroker & her sister

Crime and Punishment

"Women in Love" with this author can find the ranch he lived on in the '20s near Taos, New Mexico

D.H. Lawrence

He was living in Italy when he wrote "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

D.H. Lawrence

His first novel "The White Peacock" preceded "Sons and Lovers" by 2 years

D.H. Lawrence

In 1912 he eloped with Freida von Richthofen, sister of the famed aviator

D.H. Lawrence

In 1913 he published his first book of poems as well as "Sons and Lovers"

D.H. Lawrence

In his 1913 novel "Sons And Lovers", Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie Chambers

D.H. Lawrence

Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" is based in part on his own mom

D.H. Lawrence

On publication in 1915, his "The Rainbow" was labeled obscene & banned, & unsold copies were destroyed

D.H. Lawrence

"The Big Knockover", a collection of his stories & short novels, was edited by Lillian Hellman

Dashiell Hammett

He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases

Dashiell Hammett

It doesn't take a P.I. like his Sam Spade to find this man's grave at Arlington; it's in Section 12, Lot 508

Dashiell Hammett

Sam Spade

Dashiell Hammett

A jockey who raced in the Grand National, his mysteries usually have a horse-racing theme

Dick Francis

In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses"

Dick Francis

This mystery author was a racing correspondent for the London Sunday Express for 16 years

Dick Francis

At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge"

Dickens

At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes

Dickens

He first used the pseudonym Boz in the August 1834 issue of “The Monthly Magazineâ€

Dickens

In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory

Dickens

Marley & Co. weren't his only spirits; he also wrote about ghosts in "The Haunted House"

Dickens

Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry

Don Quixote

Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills"

Don Quixote

He promised that if Sancho Panza became his squire, he'd make him governor of an island

Don Quixote

Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit

Don Quixote

Sancho Panza calls him "The Knight of the Sad Countenance"

Don Quixote

Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel

Don Quixote

Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church

Don Quixote

Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character

Don Quixote

The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work

Don Quixote

A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde"

Dorothy Parker

Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried

Dorothy Parker

In 1994 Ferber & Fitzgerald also appeared when Jennifer Jason Leigh played this witty writer

Dorothy Parker

In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer"

Dorothy Parker

We wonder if this witty gal wrote dialogue for "A Star Is Born" while sitting at a round table

Dorothy Parker

As of 1996 he had 5 of the 15 bestselling children's books ever, led by "Green Eggs and Ham"

Dr. Seuss

His 1986 story "You're Only Old Once!" is "A Book for Obsolete Children"

Dr. Seuss

In 1991 the N.Y. Times said English was "too skimpy for so rich an imagination"; his language & meter were irresistible

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Geisel, better known by this pseudonym, wrote "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet" under the name Theo. LeSieg

Dr. Seuss

His 1954 play "Under Milkwood", was originally written for radio

Dylan Thomas

In "A Refusal To Mourn the Death" of a child, he wrote, "After the first death, there is no other"

Dylan Thomas

Poet who relived his boyhood in “A Child's Christmas in Walesâ€

Dylan Thomas

Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death

Dylan Thomas

This hard-drinking Welshman was residing in NYC's Chelsea Hotel when he met an untimely demise in 1953

Dylan Thomas

"Bad Man From Bodie" was the British title of this "Ragtime" author's first novel "Welcome To Hard Times"

E.L. Doctorow

"The Book of Daniel", "Ragtime"

E.L. Doctorow

His novels "Ragtime" & "World's Fair" were both set in NYC before WWII

E.L. Doctorow

This "Ragtime" author's initials stand for Edgar Laurence

E.L. Doctorow

"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"

Edgar Allan Poe

A new theory says this author died of rabies, not alcoholism or drug abuse, October 7, 1849

Edgar Allan Poe

An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating"

Edgar Allan Poe

D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and... horrible underground passages of the human soul"

Edgar Allan Poe

D.H. Lawrence said this writer of "The Bells" "sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom"

Edgar Allan Poe

First published in 1835, "Berence" has been called "his most horrifying tale"

Edgar Allan Poe

He set 2 of his stories, "The Balloon Hoax" & "The Gold-Bug", on Sullivan's Island, S.C., where he'd served in the army

Edgar Allan Poe

He wrote "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" shortly after becoming editor of Graham's Magazine

Edgar Allan Poe

He wrote “The Bells†& “Annabel Lee†at his farmhouse in the Bronx

Edgar Allan Poe

His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye"

Edgar Allan Poe

His story "Ms. Found in a Bottle" was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest

Edgar Allan Poe

In 1836 he marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm, for whom it is thought he wrote "Annabel Lee"

Edgar Allan Poe

In 1843 his story "The Gold Bug" won a $100 prize from the "Dollar Newspaper" in Philadelphia

Edgar Allan Poe

Mathew Brady took the photo seen here of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-02-14_J_01.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> author & West Point dropout

Edgar Allan Poe

Roderick & Madeline are the doomed twins in his scary 1839 story "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Edgar Allan Poe

He's interred at his former home at 18354 Ventura Blvd. in Encino, not Tarzana, California

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzana, California is named for his most famous character

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She co-authored a book about "The Decoration of Houses" before writing "The House of Mirth"

Edith Wharton

"Called Back" is the epitaph on this poet's Amherst grave

Emily Dickinson

Her headstone at West Cemetery in Amherst says she was "BORN DEC. 10, 1830 CALLED BACK MAY 15, 1886"

Emily Dickinson

In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound"

Emily Dickinson

She wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed"

Emily Dickinson

"Any Woman's Blues" was a 1990 novel by this "Fear Of Flying" author

Erica Jong

Her career took off after publishing "Fear of Flying" in 1973

Erica Jong

Her next book after "Fear of Flying" was a poetry collection, "Loveroot"

Erica Jong

Reviewing her "Fear oF Flying" in 1973, John Updike said it had "class & sass, brightness & bite"

Erica Jong

She was a poet before turning to fiction with "Fear of Flying"

Erica Jong

She's also a poet, but she's more famous for her "Fear of Flying"

Erica Jong

"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death..." he wrote in "Death in the Afternoon"

Ernest Hemingway

"In Love and War" showed this author as an ambulance driver wounded in WWI & falling for his nurse

Ernest Hemingway

A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not"

Ernest Hemingway

Activities at a Key West, Fla. festival honoring this author include a running of the bulls & a short story contest

Ernest Hemingway

After leaving the Mayo Clinic, this author committed suicide July 2, 1961 at his Ketchum, Idaho home

Ernest Hemingway

Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, "The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word"

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying some fishing near Havana, Cuba, he's the writer seen here

Ernest Hemingway

Faulkner said this writer "has no courage" & "has never used a word where the reader (may need) a dictionary"

Ernest Hemingway

He took the title of his "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from a work by John Donne

Ernest Hemingway

His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death

Ernest Hemingway

His 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" has been published in England as "Fiesta"

Ernest Hemingway

His famous story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was originally published in Esquire in 1936

Ernest Hemingway

His story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936

Ernest Hemingway

In 1922 this novelist said of Ezra Pound, "He's teaching me to write, and I'm teaching him to box"

Ernest Hemingway

In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers

Ernest Hemingway

In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wrote, "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing"

Ernest Hemingway

In the movie "In Love & War", Chris O'Donnell played this American author wounded in Italy during WWI

Ernest Hemingway

Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day

Ernest Hemingway

The film "In Love and War" draws on the diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky, who got to know this author in WWI

Ernest Hemingway

This American adventurist armed his boat & hunted German subs in the Caribbean during WWII: Weighty man, sneer

Ernest Hemingway

This American novelist created the old fisherman Santiago & the young bullfighter Pedro Romero

Ernest Hemingway

This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.

Ernest Hemingway

You can tour the house at 907 Whitehead Street in Key West where he wrote "For Whom The Bell Tolls"

Ernest Hemingway

<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-28_DJ_07a.jpg" target="_blank">Scottie</a>, daughter of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-28_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> author, grew up to be a journalist & Washington socialite

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Early collections of his stories include "Flappers And Philosophers" & "Tales Of The Jazz Age"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key, he was the voice of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He published "Flappers and Philosophers", his first book of short stories, in 1920, the year he married Zelda

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He wrote amateur musical comedies at Princeton about 10 years before "The Great Gatsby"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

His 2 middle names were Scott & Key

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Saul Bellow said this "Jazz Age" author "couldn't distinguish between innocence and social climbing"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sheilah Graham got material for 3 memoirs for her affair with this author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Jazz Age's Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The success of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise", allowed him to marry Zelda

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This "Tender is the Night" author was one of the many writers who had a crack at the script for "Gone with the Wind"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zelda Sayre broke her engagement with him (a broke adman) in 1919, but married him (now a successful novelist) in 1920

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Requiem for a Nun" was his sequel to "Sanctuary"

Faulkner

"Sartoris" published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County

Faulkner

A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying"

Faulkner

American novelist & short story writer who created Yoknapatawpha County

Faulkner

He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, Mississippi

Faulkner

The Snopes family appeared in 6 of his novels, including "The Hamlet", "The Town" & "The Mansion"

Faulkner

"Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mould me man ..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel

Frankenstein

In the original tale, Elizabeth, the bride of this man, is strangled by the monster

Frankenstein

The "X-Files" episode entitled "Post-Modern Prometheus" was an update of this classic 1818 tale

Frankenstein

This Mary Shelley tale is told through the letters of an Arctic explorer named Walton

Frankenstein

1915's "The Metamorphosis" is one of the best-known works by this Czech-born author

Franz Kafka

In due process you can tell us his "Der Prozess" was metamorphosed into English as "The Trial"

Franz Kafka

He knew firsthand about "Crime and Punishment"; he spent 4 years in a Siberian prison labor camp

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2000-07-10_DJ_19.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> in 1849 for the crime of conspiracy, he barely escaped the punishment of death

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This author of "Crime and Punishment" wrote "The Idiot" while on the run from creditors

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Middlemarch" is one of her masterpieces

George Eliot

19th century author Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name

George Eliot

She created Adam Bede, Silas Marner & Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

She was 38 when her first works of fiction were published; "Adam Bede" came out 2 years later

George Eliot

William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of "Silas Marner"

George Eliot

Big Brother could tell you his real name was Eric Arthur Blair

George Orwell

He's buried in Oxfordshire under a headstone that says "Here Lies Eric Arthur Blair"

George Orwell

In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"

George Orwell

In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called "Why" this great anti-totalitarian writer "Matters"

George Orwell

Not surprisingly, in 1984 his "1984" was a bestseller

George Orwell

On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called "The Wintry Conscience of a Generation"

George Orwell

With the proceeds from "Animal Farm" he bought a home on the Hebridean island of Jura

George Orwell

"Francois le Champi" is an 1848 novel by this woman who liked to wear men's clothes

George Sand

A wild romance with Alfred de Musset inspired this Frenchwoman with a masculine name to write "Elle et lui"

George Sand

Born Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, she chose this pseudonym for her 1st novel, 1832's "Indiana"

George Sand

Her first novel was written in collaboration with another author using the joint pseudonym Jules Sand

George Sand

When the people of Nohant, France refer to "the Chateau", they mean the home of this 19th C. woman

George Sand

Among the places visited in this novel are Glubdrubdib, an island of sorcerers, & Luggnagg

Gulliver's Travels

In this novel, one of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag is described as being "as tall as an ordinary spire-steeple"

Gulliver's Travels

So on again, o again, from Laputa to Glubbdubdrib / I'm giving up, something something a Flubbdubgrib

Gulliver's Travels

This 1726 satire reported the existence of Mars' 2 moons 151 years before Asaph Hall discovered them

Gulliver's Travels

As a youth, this "War of the Worlds" author studied biology under the great scientist Thomas H. Huxley

H.G. Wells

This author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"

H.G. Wells

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-11-20_J_12.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.</a>) This author once said that "<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-11-20_J_12a.jpg" target="_blank">The Little Mermaid</a>" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it

Hans Christian Andersen

Cecil Bodker is the only Dane to win the coveted 51-year-old award named for this countryman

Hans Christian Andersen

Danny Kaye played a cobbler who gained fame as this writer of fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Danny Kaye sang "Inchworm" & "Thumbelina" in a delightful musical about this children's author

Hans Christian Andersen

He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; "The Tinder Box" was among them

Hans Christian Andersen

He wrote "O.T.: A Danish Romance" & lived a fairy tale life: Christian

Hans Christian Andersen

He wrote "The Snow Man", "The Snowdrop", "The Ice Maiden" & "The Snow Queen"

Hans Christian Andersen

His "Eventyr, fortalte for Born", or "Fairy Tales, Told for Children" was published in 1835

Hans Christian Andersen

In a fairy tale by this Danish author, the Snow Queen takes little Kay away in her sleigh to her icy palace

Hans Christian Andersen

In the 1830s he wrote, "'But he has nothing on at all,' said a little child at last"

Hans Christian Andersen

This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called "The Fairy Tale of My Life"

Hans Christian Andersen

This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805

Hans Christian Andersen

"'Do all lawyers defend n-negroes, Atticus?' 'Of course they do, Scout'"

Harper Lee

Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"

Harper Lee

In "Capote", Catherine Keener portrayed this Southern novelist, on the cusp of publication

Harper Lee

In 1991 the U. of Alabama awarded this "To Kill A Mockingbird" author an honorary Doctor of Letters degree

Harper Lee

This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch

Harper Lee

"The American Woman's Home" was co-written by Catharine Beecher & this famous sister

Harriet Beecher Stowe

19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote "The American Woman's Home" with this more famous sister

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Britannica says her 1852 novel helped "solidify both pro- and antislavery sentiment"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Catharine Beecher, a promoter of higher education for women, was the sister of this famous author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topsy, an impish black girl

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, she wrote what became an immediate bestseller

Harriet Beecher Stowe

You know her 1852 antislavery novel, but maybe not her 1870 "The Ghost in the Mill"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Green Hills of Africa", "A Moveable Feast", "The Nick Adams Stories"

Hemingway

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-11-03_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the JFK Library & Museum.</a>) The Kennedy Library has a fine collection of the papers & mementos of this writer, including an antelope that he shot on safari

Hemingway

His "A Moveable Feast" calls Fitzgerald's talent as natural as the pattern of the dust on a butterfly's wings

Hemingway

Jack, son of this author, took his fly rod on a parachute jump into WWII occupied France, claiming it was an antenna

Hemingway

This author was the son of a doctor, & he made the father of his alter ego Nick Adams a doctor, too

Hemingway

This son also rose on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois

Hemingway

While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters

Hemingway

While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy

Hemingway

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-17_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls in Washington Square, New York.</a>) As a boy <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-17_DJ_26a.jpg" target="_blank">he</a> lived right here in the area & later wrote "Washington Square", whose heroine prefers it to any other habitation

Henry James

Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works

Henry James

Olive Chancellor was into woman's lib in his 1886 novel "The Bostonians"

Henry James

One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England

Henry James

Oscar Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray" & he wrote "The Portrait of A Lady"

Henry James

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-11-11_DJ_08.wmv">Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.</a>) This American novelist, more associated with whales, visited the Galapagos & mused on the tortoise as a symbol of the two sides of existence, with its dark topside & bright underside

Herman Melville

After picking up his book "Moby Dick", you might be relieved to know he wrote short stories too

Herman Melville

An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick"

Herman Melville

As a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany

Herman Melville

He dedicated "Moby Dick" to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

He followed his 1850 sea tale "White-Jacket" with another sea tale about a white object

Herman Melville

He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name

Herman Melville

His book, "Omoo", is subtitled "Adventures in the South Seas"

Herman Melville

His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific

Herman Melville

In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool

Herman Melville

In 1842 he & a shipmate jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands & lived for a month with the Typee tribe

Herman Melville

In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience

Herman Melville

J.N. Reynolds' "Mocha Dick", about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man's "Moby Dick"

Herman Melville

Published in 1849, "Redburn: His FIrst Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy

Herman Melville

Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel "Mardi"

Herman Melville

The manuscript for "Billy Budd" was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death

Herman Melville

This seafaring author had a lot to "wail" about: his somber 1852 novel "Pierre" is semi-autobiographical

Herman Melville

You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi"

Herman Melville

"Demian" is a Bildungsroman by this German novelist & poet

Hermann Hesse

As well as the "Iliad" & "Odyssey", a number of hymns are attributed to him

Homer

Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet

Homer

In the 6th century B.C., Greeks used his "Iliad" & "Odyssey" as textbooks

Homer

His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories

Honore De Balzac

"Les Chouans" in 1829 was the first novel this "La Comedie Humaine" author published under his own name

Honore de Balzac

He spent almost 20 years writing the novels & stories that have since become known as "The Human Comedy"

Honore de Balzac

This French author's original surname was Balssa before his father changed it

Honore de Balzac

This Norwegian wrote his play "An Enemy of the People" while living in Rome

Ibsen

This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway

Ibsen

This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt"

Ibsen

He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old

Isaac Asimov

His 1950 classic "I, Robot" contains 9 related stories about (what else?) robots

Isaac Asimov

This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them"

Isaac Asimov

This writer's "Foundation" was published in a one-volume paperback with a novel by Poul Anderson

Isaac Asimov

"Aphrodite: A Memoir Of The Senses" is a 1998 novel from this "House Of The Spirits" author

Isabel Allende

"Barrabas came to us by sea" is how this female author began "The House of the Spirits"

Isabel Allende

"Of Love and Shadows", "The House of the Spirits"

Isabel Allende

"The House of the Spirits" is the first novel by this Lima-born woman

Isabel Allende

"The Stories of Eva Luna" is a collection by this Chilean woman with political connections

Isabel Allende

After her uncle Salvador was overthrown & died in a military coup, she & her family fled Chile

Isabel Allende

First & last name of the writer whose uncle became the president of Chile in 1970

Isabel Allende

Her 2003 memoir was titled "My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile"

Isabel Allende

In "Out of Africa", she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu

Isak Dinesen

It reportedly took him about 10 years to write "The Catcher in the Rye"

J.D. Salinger

The first line of his 1951 novel mentions a "lousy childhood ... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"

J.D. Salinger

Ward Stradlater, Robert Ackley, Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

Zowie! This author of "Franny and Zooey" was once apprenticed to a pig slaughterer in Poland

J.D. Salinger

As a child, she liked to play witches & wizards with her friends Ian & Vikki Potter

J.K. Rowling

Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen

J.K. Rowling

In 2007 Forbes estimated her earnings at $1 billion; Author! Author!

J.K. Rowling

She uses her initials because it was feared that boys might avoid books written by a Joanne Kathleen

J.K. Rowling

She was an English teacher by day in Portugal when she began using her mornings to write about wizards

J.K. Rowling

While out of work, she wrote much of her first Harry Potter book at a cafe while her daughter napped

J.K. Rowling

"The Silmarillion", his prequel to "Lord of the Rings", was published after his death

J.R.R. Tolkien

"The Two Towers" (1954, book 2 of a trilogy)

J.R.R. Tolkien

After several decades off it, works by this man seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-26_FJ.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003

J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins

J.R.R. Tolkien

His middle names were Ronald Reuel

J.R.R. Tolkien

In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared

J.R.R. Tolkien

This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959

J.R.R. Tolkien

This author of "The Lord of the Rings" was born in South Africa & brought to England at age 4

J.R.R. Tolkien

While grading school papers, he came up with the line "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

J.R.R. Tolkien

In 1900 the Atlantic Monthly published his story "An Odyssey of the North", his literary breakthrough

Jack London

This "Call of the Wild" author reported on the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers

Jack London

This author of "The Son of the Wolf" & "The Sea-Wolf" called his home "Wolf House"

Jack London

"Mercedes of Castile" is a lesser-known novel by this author of "The Leather-Stocking Tales"

James Fenimore Cooper

"The Deerslayer" was the last written, but first chronologically, of his "Leatherstocking Tales"

James Fenimore Cooper

"The Red Rover" is a sea novel by this author of "The Last of the Mohicans"

James Fenimore Cooper

"The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish" is this author's 1829 novel about King Philip's War

James Fenimore Cooper

Frontier writer Fenimore

James Fenimore Cooper

He prefaced chapters IX & X of his novel "The Pathfinder" with quotes from "As You Like It"

James Fenimore Cooper

Henry March in his novel "The Deerslayer" is nicknamed Hurry Harry because he's always on the move

James Fenimore Cooper

His 5 "Leatherstocking Tales" portray Natty Bumppo from his youth to his death over 60 years later

James Fenimore Cooper

His novels include "The Prairie", "The Pioneers", & "The Pathfinder"

James Fenimore Cooper

Wah-Ta!-Wah, Uncas, Chingachgook

James Fenimore Cooper

"Dubliners" is a collection of short stories by this Irish author

James Joyce

As an assistant to this author, Samuel Beckett had to fight off the advances of his daughter Lucia

James Joyce

Ezra Pound gave an enthusiastic review to "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by this Irish author

James Joyce

In 1939 he wrote, "O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia... Tell me all. Tell me now"

James Joyce

In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to "Finnegans Wake"

James Joyce

Ironically, it was Gertrude Stein who observed of this Irishman, "People like him because he is incomprehensible"

James Joyce

Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses"

James Joyce

Seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-10-25_DJ_03.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> is a portrait of this author as a middle-aged man

James Joyce

This Irishman's first & most understandable novel was "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

James Joyce

This Irishman's many prose innovations included the use of stream of consciousness

James Joyce

While at University College, Dublin, he wrote the essay "The Day of the Rabblement", attacking the Irish Literary Theatre

James Joyce

"Tales of the South Pacific"

James Michener

From 1944 to 1946 he served as a naval historian in the south Pacific

James Michener

He published "Hawaii" the same year Hawaii became a state

James Michener

He wrote about Polish life in "Poland" & the history of South Africa in "The Covenant"

James Michener

This "Roses are Red" author also inspired a TV show with his "Women's Murder Club" series

James Patterson

"Northanger Abbey"

Jane Austen

A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death

Jane Austen

Anne has been convinced not to marry Wentworth in this woman's novel "Persuasion"

Jane Austen

Born in 1775, showed "Sensibility" in 1811, never married, died in 1817

Jane Austen

Illness prevented her from finishing "Sanditon"; "Northanger Abbey" was published posthumously

Jane Austen

In "Emma" she wrote, "Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"

Jane Austen

In "The Janeites", a story by Rudyard Kipling, a group of soldiers have a deep admiration for this author

Jane Austen

John Murray, Lord Byron's publisher, also put out this woman's "Emma" & "Mansfield Park"

Jane Austen

Longfellow said this "Pride And Prejudice" author's writings "Are a capital picture of real life"

Jane Austen

She dedicated her 1816 novel "Emma" to his royal highness, the Prince Regent

Jane Austen

She died on July 18, 1817 after dealing with some pride & prejudice in her day

Jane Austen

She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility"

Jane Austen

She wrote "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice" & "Northhanger Abbey" between 1795 & 1798

Jane Austen

She wrote in "Emma", "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"

Jane Austen

Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today

Jane Austen

"I never liked long walks", says the heroine of this Charlotte Bronte novel

Jane Eyre

The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8

Jane Eyre

The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words "Reader, I married him"

Jane Eyre

William Makepeace Thackeray wrote that "Some of the love passages" of this Charlotte Bronte work "made me cry"

Jane Eyre

"Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox"

Joel Chandler Harris

"Little Mr. Thimblefinger And His Queer Country" is a children's book by this creator of Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris

This author of the Uncle Remus stories also wrote "Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine"

Joel Chandler Harris

A library at Mississippi State University has a room honoring this "Pelican Brief" author

John Grisham

An attorney must search the Brazilian rain forest for a missing heir in his novel "The Testament"

John Grisham

In 2000 he published "The Brethren" about 3 imprisoned ex-judges

John Grisham

He wrote of a cross-country trek with a poodle in "Travels with Charley"

John Steinbeck

In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers

John Steinbeck

In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California

John Steinbeck

In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again

John Steinbeck

"Rabbit At Rest"

John Updike

He may have put his rabbit to rest, but in 1996 he published a new family saga, "In The Beauty Of The Lilies"

John Updike

His fourth & he says final Rabbit Angstrom novel is "Rabbit at Rest"

John Updike

A former spy himself, he described his spy George Smiley as "short, fat, and of a quiet disposition"

John le Carré

In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean"

Jonathan Swift

"God Knows", a 1984 novel by this "Catch-22" author, is a satire narrated by King David

Joseph Heller

His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe

Joseph Heller

John Yossarian

Joseph Heller

Her first published novel was "Scruples" in 1978

Judith Krantz

In the late 1940s this "Princess Daisy" author worked as a fashion publicist in Paris

Judith Krantz

This "Scruples" author dishes the dirt on herself in "Sex and Shopping: Confessions of A Nice Jewish Girl"

Judith Krantz

An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken

Jules Verne

Captain Nemo & Phileas Fogg

Jules Verne

For 35 years straight, he published a new novel each year, including "From the Earth to the Moon"

Jules Verne

His "Voyages Extraordinaires" include one "From the Earth to the Moon" & one "To the Center of the Earth"

Jules Verne

His 19th century novels such as "The Mysterious Island" foretold the submarine, the aqua lung & TV

Jules Verne

In 1887 this science fiction author wrote a novel about the U.S. Civil War, "North Against South"

Jules Verne

Rejected in 1863 when its autos & subways seemed too fantastic, his "Paris au XXIeme Siecle" was finally published in 1994

Jules Verne

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", "Timequake", "Mother Night"

Kurt Vonnegut

"Welcome to the Monkey House", "Galapagos", "Player Piano"

Kurt Vonnegut

He subtitled his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Championsâ€, “Or Goodbye Blue Monday!â€

Kurt Vonnegut

In 1991 on cable television he introduced stories from his book "Welcome to the Monkey House"

Kurt Vonnegut

His WWII imprisonment in a Dresden slaughterhouse inspired "Slaughterhouse-Five"

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This "Breakfast of Champions" author once put breakfast on the table by selling Saabs on Cape Cod

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This "Breakfast of Champions" author once ran a Saab auto dealership

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This author based the character Philboyd Studge in "Breakfast of Champions" on himself

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

He wrote 14 books about Oz, & some short stories too

L. Frank Baum

In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel

L. Frank Baum

In 1900 he sent the Library of Congress $2.20 to copyright his "The Navy Alphabet" & another, more "Wonderful", book

L. Frank Baum

In 1900 he wrote the line, "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick"

L. Frank Baum

This wonderful author of Oz sometimes wrote books for boys under the pen name Captain Hugh Fitzgerald

L. Frank Baum

Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz

L. Frank Baum

In 1997 he published "Comanche Moon", a prequel to his "Lonesome Dove"

Larry McMurtry

Her "Little House in the Big Woods" begins in Wisconsin

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

In 1941 she wrote "Little Town on the Prairie"

Laura Ingalls Wilder

In 1977 a reconstruction of her "Little House" was put on the original site 13 miles southwest of Independence

Laura Ingalls Wilder

She didn't start writing her "Little House" novels until she was in her 60s

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this "Little House on the Prairie" author briefly lived is a museum

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Happy families are all alike" begins his "Anna Karenina"

Leo Tolstoy

"Kholstomer" by this "War And Peace" author is a satire on human beings from a horse's point of view

Leo Tolstoy

"Two Hussars" is a short story by this author of the very long novel "War and Peace"

Leo Tolstoy

After this epic Russian novelist didn't win in 1901, he wrote a letter declining the prize thereafter

Leo Tolstoy

His "Anna Karenina" was originally published in installments between 1875 & 1877

Leo Tolstoy

His epic novel "War And Peace" features over 500 characters

Leo Tolstoy

His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya

Leo Tolstoy

As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Lewis Carroll

Concerning his "Alice in Wonderland" books, he said, "I meant nothing but nonsense"

Lewis Carroll

He began his "Jabberwocky" poem, " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..."

Lewis Carroll

His grave is marked "REV. CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON. FELL ASLEEP JAN. 14, 1898. AGED 65 YEARS"

Lewis Carroll

In 1865 he wrote the line "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

Lewis Carroll

In addition to his "Alice" books, he wrote many math works including "Euclid and His Modern Rivals"

Lewis Carroll

"Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel

Little Women

Chapter 25 of this book is called "The First Wedding" & it described Meg's marriage to John Brooke

Little Women

In "Good Wives", the second part of this novel, Aunt March dies & leaves her home, Plumfield, to Jo

Little Women

In this novel, Jo March becomes a writer & marries Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged professor

Little Women

Professor Bhaer, introduced in this 1868 novel, may have been based on William Rimmer, a teacher Louisa May Alcott knew

Little Women

"To The Far Blue Mountains" was one of this western author's Sackett sagas

Louis L'Amour

<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-04-11_DJ_13.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> Western author grew up listening to tales of his great-grandfather, who was scalped by the Sioux

Louis L'Amour

He introduced the Sackett family in his 1960 Western novel "The Daybreakers"

Louis L'Amour

This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels

Louis L'Amour

This western author stopped using pen names soon after the publication of "Hondo " in 1953

Louis L'Amour

Buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., she died 2 days after her father, Bronson

Louisa May Alcott

Henry James called her "the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom"

Louisa May Alcott

Her home Orchard House was the model for whre the March family lived in her most famous novel

Louisa May Alcott

She followed up "Little Women" with "An Old-Fashioned Girl" & "Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag"

Louisa May Alcott

She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel

Louisa May Alcott

Her recently-discovered work "Lost Laysen" was published in 1996, the 60th anniv. of "Gone With The Wind"

Margaret Mitchell

In "Gone with the Wind" she wrote of "the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain"

Margaret Mitchell

In Macmillan's spring 1936 catalog, her upcoming novel was misidentified as "Come with the Wind"

Margaret Mitchell

In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"

Margaret Mitchell

In the early 1920s she scandalized Atlanta society by doing a provocative dance at a debutante ball

Margaret Mitchell

She left the Atlanta Journal in 1926 after injuring her ankle, & spent the next ten years writing a novel

Margaret Mitchell

She sometimes joked that she was writing a sequel to her famous novel to be titled "Back With the Breeze"

Margaret Mitchell

"Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z"

Mark Twain

"The Pilgrim From Hannibal"

Mark Twain

An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi"

Mark Twain

Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author

Mark Twain

Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi"

Mark Twain

Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them"

Mark Twain

From 1862 to 1864 he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada

Mark Twain

He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands"

Mark Twain

He wrote about fictional children Willie Mufferson, Joe Harper, & Sid Sawyer

Mark Twain

His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad"

Mark Twain

In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it"

Mark Twain

In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens first used this pseudonym on February 3, 1863 in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used this pen name in 1863 while with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nev.

Mark Twain

The Palace Hotel in S.F. has played host to such luminaries as Oscar Wilde & this "Prince and the Pauper" scribe

Mark Twain

This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi

Mark Twain

When his father died in 1847, he had to leave school & work as a printer's apprentice at the Hannibal Courier

Mark Twain

"Before I Say Good-Bye" is her 22nd romantic thriller, so it's no mystery -- she's good

Mary Higgins Clark

"Deck The Halls", a Christmas thriller, was a joint effort by Carol Higgins Clark & this author, her mom

Mary Higgins Clark

Several of her suspense novels including "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" derive their titles from old songs

Mary Higgins Clark

This "The Cradle Will Fall" author's first book was a biography of George Washington

Mary Higgins Clark

This author of "A Cry in the Night" & "We'll Meet Again" is known as the queen of suspense

Mary Higgins Clark

This thriller writer was set when she earned $1 million for the paperback rights to "A Stranger Is Watching"

Mary Higgins Clark

"I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"

Mary Shelley

After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving's friends to fix them up

Mary Shelley

In 1851 she was laid to rest in an English churchyard along with husband Percy's heart & a copy of his "Adonais"

Mary Shelley

"The Andromeda Strain", "Jurassic Park"

Michael Crichton

He brought back the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" & "The Lost World"

Michael Crichton

He published "The Andromeda Strain" in 1969, during his last year in medical school

Michael Crichton

In 1969 & 1970 this "Andromeda Strain" author was a fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Michael Crichton

In 1993 this author sold the film rights to "Disclosure" for about $3.5 million before it had been published

Michael Crichton

This "Jurassic Park" author once taught anthropology at Cambridge University

Michael Crichton

This author who gave us the giant reptiles of "Jurassic Park" stands 6'9"

Michael Crichton

Ayn Rand once cited this late Mike Hammer author as her favorite popular writer

Mickey Spillane

He created Mike Hammer & played the part in the 1963 film "The Girl Hunters"

Mickey Spillane

He wrote comic book stories for "Captain America" & "Captain Marvel" before hitting it big with "I, the Jury"

Mickey Spillane

Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane

This author introduced detective Mike Hammer in "I, The Jury"

Mickey Spillane

Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal

Moby Dick

Ishmael called him the incarnation of "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought"

Moby Dick

Melville's white whale tale

Moby Dick

In 1852 this "Scarlet Letter" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The "Old Manse" in Concord where he & his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845 was rented from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Naked and the Dead", "Existential Errands", "The Executioner's Song"

Norman Mailer

He discussed Ali vs. Foreman in his book "The Fight" & in the 1996 film "When We Were Kings"

Norman Mailer

He wrote his 1948 novel "The Naked and the Dead" while he was enrolled at the Sorbonne

Norman Mailer

In January 2003 Provincetown proclaimed this "Naked and the Dead" author's day, in honor of his 80th birthday

Norman Mailer

This late author of controversial books like "Oswald's Tale" had 6 wives, including the one he stabbed

Norman Mailer

This novelist & author of "Advertisements for Myself" celebrated his 80th birthday on Jan. 31, 2003

Norman Mailer

He wrote many short stories with surprise endings including "The Gift of the Magi"

O. Henry

In 1904 this short story author's first book, "Cabbages and Kings", was published

O. Henry

Is 1906 collection "The Four Million" contained some of his best-known stories, including "The Gift of the Magi"

O. Henry

We'll give you a chocolate bar if you'll name this short story writer born Sept. 11, 1862 in North Carolina

O. Henry

William Sydney Porter

O. Henry

Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with "The Flight of Sikes"--Bill Sikes

Oliver Twist

Dickens' boy who was sold by the orphanage after asking for a second bowl of porridge

Oliver Twist

In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind"

Oliver Twist

In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution

Oliver Twist

A scandalous Irishman, my parents were also writers: I lace words

Oscar Wilde

Ambrose Bierce described this "Earnest" playwright as "That sovereign of insufferables"

Oscar Wilde

Born in 1854, was well-read in Gaol for 2 years, Paris-ed away in 1900

Oscar Wilde

His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"

Oscar Wilde

Reviewing "An Ideal Husband", G.B. Shaw said this fellow Irishman "has the property of making his critics dull"

Oscar Wilde

Sebastian Melma was the name used by this Irish playwright while in exile

Oscar Wilde

"Much Obliged, Jeeves", this author's last collection of Bertie-&-Jeeves stories, was published in 1971

P.G. Wodehouse

He wrote his stories about Bertie Wooster & his manservant Jeeves over a period of about 50 years

P.G. Wodehouse

His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum"

P.G. Wodehouse

Sean O' Casey sniped that this author of "Jeeves" was "English literature's performing flea"

P.G. Wodehouse

This author of "The Man With Two Left Feet" & "My Man Jeeves" was a prisoner of the Germans during WWII

P.G. Wodehouse

Born Neftali Reyes, this Nobel-winning Chilean poet penned "Elementary Odes" in 1954

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet to whom Massimo Troisi delivered mail as "The Postman"

Pablo Neruda

Great Chilean poet known for his "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"

Pablo Neruda

His father disapproved of his poetry writing, so Chile's Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto adopted this pen name

Pablo Neruda

This poet was Chile's ambassador to France when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971

Pablo Neruda

Adam & Eve confront the big man himself & discuss this 1667 Milton poem on "I Can't Believe You Evicted Me!"

Paradise Lost

In 1671, Milton wrote "Paradise Regained", a sequel to this

Paradise Lost

In this epic poem about leaving heaven, John Milton created Pandemonium, the capital of Hell

Paradise Lost

This work says, "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven"

Paradise Lost

"Sons", the second novel in her "House of Earth" trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung's 3 sons

Pearl S. Buck

1938: "For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China"

Pearl S. Buck

Best-known for her books about China, she published her "American Triptych" as John Sedges

Pearl S. Buck

Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic

Pearl S. Buck

In 1949 this Nobel Laureate founded Welcome House, an adoption agency specializing in Asian-American children

Pearl S. Buck

In the 1930s she wrote biographies of her father & mother, who were Presbyterian missionaries to China

Pearl S. Buck

Try to un"earth" a copy of "Imperial Woman", this American woman's 1956 novel about the last empress of China

Pearl S. Buck

"I Married a Communist", "The Human Stain" & "American Pastoral" make up a recent trilogy by this novelist

Philip Roth

"Letting Go" was the 1st full-length novel by this author of "Goodbye, Columbus"

Philip Roth

"The Great American Novel", "Zuckerman Bound", "Portnoy's Complaint"

Philip Roth

A writer named Nathan Zuckerman is featured in several books by this author

Philip Roth

He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959

Philip Roth

He's won 2 Nat'l Book Awards: for "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1960 & for "Sabbath's Theater" 35 years later

Philip Roth

Nathan Zuckerman, Trick E. Dixon, Alexander Portnoy

Philip Roth

1996 bestsellers by this author include "Vampire Breath" & "Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns"

R.L. Stine

He began his "Goosebumps" series with 1992's "Welcome to Dead House"

R.L. Stine

The paperbacks in this writer's "Goosebumps" series have numbers as well as titles

R.L. Stine

This author is famous for giving readers "Goosebumps" & leading them down "Fear Street"

R.L. Stine

"With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame..."

Ray Bradbury

He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books

Ray Bradbury

He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel

Ray Bradbury

His story "I Sing the Body Electric!" was adapted as an episode of "The Twilight Zone"

Ray Bradbury

In 1947 he published his first story collection, "Dark Carnival"; the "Martian Chronicles" came 3 years later

Ray Bradbury

In 1979 a play based on his novel "Fahrenheit 451" was produced in Los Angeles

Ray Bradbury

"The Twits" is the tale of a perfectly dreadful couple by this author of "James and the Giant Peach"

Roald Dahl

Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time

Roald Dahl

His widow Felicity said he would have loved the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie; he hated the old one

Roald Dahl

This "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author wrote of his days in the RAF in "Going Solo"

Roald Dahl

This creator of Willy Wonka wrote in a hut whose decor included bits of his own spine from an operation

Roald Dahl

This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913

Robert Frost

(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Oahu, Hawaii) When this Scottish-born author took refuge in Samoa, he was known as Tusitala, or "story-teller"

Robert Louis Stevenson

Graham Greene was born 10 years after this distant writer relative of his died in the South Seas

Robert Louis Stevenson

Shortly after writing "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped", he died on the island of Samoa

Robert Louis Stevenson

This Daniel Defoe character was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family

Robinson Crusoe

This title character of an 18th c. novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized

Robinson Crusoe

"Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated

Rudyard Kipling

Bombay-born author whose 1st novel was "The Light That Failed"

Rudyard Kipling

Born in India, this English author was the youngest person to win a Nobel prize in literature

Rudyard Kipling

He dedicated his 1888 book "Plain Tales From The Hills" "To the wittiest woman in India"

Rudyard Kipling

He wrote the poem "Gunga Din" to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India

Rudyard Kipling

His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..."

Rudyard Kipling

His first "Jungle Book" was so popular that he published his "Second Jungle Book" in 1895

Rudyard Kipling

His stores include "The Man Who Was" and "The Man Who Would Be King"

Rudyard Kipling

In the era of colonialism, this British author wrote, "Take Up the White Man's Burden"

Rudyard Kipling

It's said that this "Kim" author's autograph was so prized in the 1890s that many of his personal checks were never cashed

Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli's song "Against People" appears in this author's "Second Jungle Book"

Rudyard Kipling

The Asian travels of 1944 winner Johannes Jensen got him dubbed Denmark's this British writer who won in 1907

Rudyard Kipling

This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years

Rudyard Kipling

This author's "The Man Who Would Be King" has been called the perfect short story

Rudyard Kipling

Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" & he wrote "The Jungle Book"

Rudyard Kipling

After a fatwa was issued against him in February 1989, he went into hiding under police protection

Salman Rushdie

Author & involuntary recluse seen here

Salman Rushdie

His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses"

Salman Rushdie

In 1990 this "Satanic Verses" author published the children's book "Haroun & The Sea Of Stories"

Salman Rushdie

This controversial Bonbay-born Brit is the author of "Midnight's Children" & of the cake slogan "Naughty but nice"

Salman Rushdie

"'...Why look'st thou so?'--'With my crossbow I shot the albatross'"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Lyrical" English poet Taylor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Devonshire-born man rhymed about an "Ancient Mariner"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You can visit the home of this poet and buddy of Wordsworth on Lime Street in the Village of Nether Stowe

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After winning an Oscar & a Tony, he tried his hand at novels like "The Naked Face" & "The Other Side of Midnight"

Sidney Sheldon

One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie"

Sidney Sheldon

This author of "The Other Side of Midnight" co-wrote the screenplay for "Easter Parade"

Sidney Sheldon

A teacher of philosophy until her first novel was published, her best-known work is "The Second Sex"

Simone De Beauvoir

Best known for her romance with Sartre, she also had a fling with Chicago novelist Nelson Algren

Simone de Beauvoir

She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel "The Mandarins" on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir

She fictionalized her affair with Nelson Algren in "Les Mandarins", & based the heroine's husband on Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir

This "Second Sex" author taught philosophy for 12 years before writing her first novel

Simone de Beauvoir

"The Chronicler of Main Street"

Sinclair Lewis

"The Man from Main Street" is a collection of this Nobel Prize winner's essays

Sinclair Lewis

A collection of his letters, "From Main Street to Stockholm", was published posthumously in 1952

Sinclair Lewis

His father Emmet, a country doctor, gave him much of the background for Dr. Kennicott in his novel "Main Street"

Sinclair Lewis

In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate

Sinclair Lewis

The Reader's Encyclopedia said, "He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them"

Sinclair Lewis

This "Babbitt" author published his 1st novel, "Hike And The Aeroplane", under the pseudonym Tom Graham

Sinclair Lewis

When he died in 1951, his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Sinclair Lewis

A little detective work in a Hampshire churchyard & you'll find the grave of this "PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

His Sherlock Holmes was partly based on a teacher at Edinburgh University

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The unimaginative Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-30_J_03.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.</a>) Central Park's Literary Walk features <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-30_J_03a.jpg" target="_blank">Robert Burns</a> & <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-30_J_03b.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> great novelist & <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-30_J_03b.jpg" target="_blank">countryman</a>, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen

Sir Walter Scott

Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands

Sir Walter Scott

Ellen Douglas is the title character of this Scottish author's "The Lady of the Lake"

Sir Walter Scott

Richard Middlemas gets crushed by an elephant in "The Surgeon's Daughter", an 1827 tale by this Edinburgher

Sir Walter Scott

The defense of Douglas Castle in 1306 is the subject of this Edinburgh native's 1832 novel "Castle Dangerous"

Sir Walter Scott

This Scot is buried at Dryburgh Abbey near a view he so loved that his horses paused there on the way to his funeral

Sir Walter Scott

"A Sport of Nature" is the story of a black activist's white wife in this, author Nadine Gordimer's homeland

South Africa

Most of Nadine Gordimer's novels including "July's People" are set in this country where she grew up

South Africa

Nadine Gordimer

South Africa

Nadine Gortimer, born in the Transvaal in this country, had her 1st story published when she was 15

South Africa

Henry Fleming, the hero of "The Red Badge of Courage", reappeared in his short story "Lynx-Hunting"

Stephen Crane

His "Red Badge Of Courage" first appeared in shortened form in the Philadelphia press

Stephen Crane

"Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's 1st novel, and "Carrie" was this author's

Stephen King

"The Dead Zone", "The Dark Half", "It"

Stephen King

"The Stand"

Stephen King

1990 bestsellers included Sidney Sheldon's "Memories of Midnight" & this author's "Four Past Midnight"

Stephen King

Among this author's bestsellers are "Misery" & "The Tommyknockers"

Stephen King

Annie Wilkes, John Coffey, Carrie White

Stephen King

He wrote his 1982 novel "The Running Man" under the pseudonym Richard Bachman

Stephen King

In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong

Stephen King

In 1990 he reissued "The Stand" with nearly 500 more pages than the original

Stephen King

In 1996 he simultaneously published "The Regulators" as Richard Bachman & "Desperation" under this name

Stephen King

In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy

Stephen King

Peter Straub & this master of horror were good friends long before they collaborated on "The Talisman"

Stephen King

Peter Straub collaborated with this man on the wildly successful best-seller, "The Talisman"

Stephen King

Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O'Dim

Stephen King

Richard Bachman

Stephen King

This author once had a newsletter devoted to him titled "Castle Rock"

Stephen King

When his 1978 novel "The Stand" was reissued in 1990, it was about 50% longer than the original

Stephen King

While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit

Stephen King

A month after "The Bell Jar" was published in 1963, she took her own life

Sylvia Plath

Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her in the early days of her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Gwyneth Paltrow was this poet, struggling with depression & hubby Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath

In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic

Sylvia Plath

The knight is the first character to tell his story in this Chaucer classic

The Canterbury Tales

No Brontes, just Dantes / Got sent off to D'if / But with Danglars, that Danglars! / He had a big beef

The Count Of Monte Cristo

Don't "count" on missing "You Stole My Life, I'm Paying You Back!" featuring this 1844-45 Dumas classic

The Count of Monte Cristo

Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ernest Hemingway's only Pulitzer Prize came in 1953 for this short novel about a Cuban named Santiago

The Old Man And The Sea

1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later

The Old Man and the Sea

In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as "El Campeon"

The Old Man and the Sea

This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water"

The Old Man and the Sea

At the end of this novel, Reverend Dimmesdale reveals publicly that he is the father of Hester Prynne's daughter

The Scarlet Letter

At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness"

The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called "Another View of Hester"

The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled "Hester and the Physician"

The Scarlet Letter

Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled "Pearl"

The Scarlet Letter

Hester looked at the frock / she looked in dismay / "Do you have it in something/ other than 'A'?"

The Scarlet Letter

Hemingway's epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, "One generation passeth away..."

The Sun Also Rises

Lady Brett Ashley elopes with a bullfighter in this Hemingway novel

The Sun Also Rises

This Hemingway novel about the "Lost Generation" is told from the viewpoint of Jake Barnes

The Sun Also Rises

This children's story describes Toad Hall as "a dignified old house of mellowed red brick"

The Wind in the Willows

"Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author

Thomas Hardy

"The Mayor of Casterbridge"

Thomas Hardy

1873's "A Pair Of Blue Eyes" was the first novel he put his name on; "Far From The Madding Crowd" was second

Thomas Hardy

After the public outcry over his "Jude The Obscure", this author never wrote another novel

Thomas Hardy

Due to negative public reaction to "Jude the Obscure", he abandoned writing novels for the last 33 years of his life

Thomas Hardy

Tho he "looked homeward" to North Carolina, he lived in NYC because "You Can't Go Home Again"

Thomas Wolfe

"He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible"

Tolkien

He made recordings reading from some of his own works, including "Poems and Songs of Middle-earth"

Tolkien

He originally wrote "The Hobbit" to entertain his kids

Tolkien

If you're in the "hobbit" of reading his books, try his non-hobbit tale "Farmer Giles Of Ham"

Tolkien

Rohan, or Riddermark, is an important realm of Middle-Earth in books by this author

Tolkien

"The Sebastopol Sketches", "The Cossacks", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

Tolstoy

<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-03_J_21.mp3">Da, "War and Peace" published in complete form 2day. Liking 1869. Is very good year</a>

Tolstoy

Christopher Plummer was nominated for an Oscar for playing this Russian author in 2009's "The Last Station"

Tolstoy

Turgenev regarded this author of "The Cossacks" as the "great author of the Russian land"

Tolstoy

As his novel "Executive Orders" begins, Jack Ryan has just become president of the U.S.

Tom Clancy

Before playing "Patriot Games", all his military experience was in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore

Tom Clancy

In 1989 both the hardcover & paperback editions of his “Cardinal of the Kremlin†were bestsellers

Tom Clancy

In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing"

Tom Clancy

Marko Ramius, John Kelly (aka Mr. Clark), Jack Ryan

Tom Clancy

President Reagan called this man's first novel "The Hunt for Red October" the "perfect yarn"

Tom Clancy

This character once asked Becky Thatcher, "Do you love rats?"

Tom Sawyer

This title character in an 1876 novel asks, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"

Tom Sawyer

When he first saw Becky Thatcher, "a certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory"

Tom Sawyer

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-04-24_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.</a>) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-04-24_DJ_07a.jpg" target="_blank">this author</a>'s "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church

Toni Morrison

A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993

Toni Morrison

Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby"

Toni Morrison

In 1977 her "Song of Solomon" became the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection by a black author in 37 years

Toni Morrison

Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon"

Toni Morrison

She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon"

Toni Morrison

She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved"

Toni Morrison

Thanks to Oprah, her 1970 novel "The Bluest Eye" was a bestseller in 2000

Toni Morrison

When featured on "Oprah", her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" returned to the bestseller list in 1996

Toni Morrison

Jim Hawkins narrates this 1883 novel

Treasure Island

Jim Hawkins, the Hispaniola's cabin boy, narrates this Robert Louis Stevenson tale

Treasure Island

Squire Trelawney outfits the schooner Hispaniola & hires its crew in this 1883 tale

Treasure Island

Harper Lee helped him research an article which developed into the work "In Cold Blood"

Truman Capote

In 1958 he wrote, "Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires was the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost"

Truman Capote

In November 1959 he arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to begin 6 years of research for "In Cold Blood"

Truman Capote

Joel Knox is the teenage hero of this "In Cold Blood" author's novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms"

Truman Capote

Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Breakfast of Champions" & he wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Truman Capote

Philip Seymour Hoffman was him, writing "In Cold Blood"

Truman Capote

Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly" & he created Holly Golightly

Truman Capote

10 years after this novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe was shocking again with "Lady Byron Vindicated"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

George Shelby dedicates his life to abolition in this Harriet Beccher Stowe novel

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lincoln called it "the book that caused the big war"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

This 1852 work was subtitled "Life Among the Lowly"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo

Victor Hugo

Before "Les Miserables", he attacked the French penal system in the novel "Claude Gueux"

Victor Hugo

Chapters in an 1831 work by this author include "Maitre Jacques Coppenole" & "A Tear for a Drop of Water"

Victor Hugo

He began a novel called "Les Miseres" as early as 1840; it was finished in 1861 with a different title

Victor Hugo

In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)"

Victor Hugo

In his 80th year, the Paris street where he lived was renamed for this "Hunchback of Notre Dame" author

Victor Hugo

This author of "Les Miserables" wrote to his future wife that "It seems to me that what I feel is not of Earth"

Victor Hugo

When this author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" died in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc De Triomphe

Victor Hugo

"The Window" & "Time Passes" are sections of her stream-of-consciousness novel "To the Lighthouse"

Virginia Woolf

"To the Lighthouse"

Virginia Woolf

Her "To the Lighthouse" revolves around visits by the Ramsay family to its summer home on the Isle of Skye

Virginia Woolf

In 1941, before taking her final dip, she wrote her sister Vanessa, "I am certain now that I am going mad again"

Virginia Woolf

Literary history was shaped in 1905 when this female author moved from 22 Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square

Virginia Woolf

Money & "A Room of One's Own" are needed if a woman is to be a writer, she asserted in a 1929 essay

Virginia Woolf

Nicole Kidman (in a prosthetic nose) portrayed "The Hours" of this author

Virginia Woolf

Nicole Kidman spent "The Hours" in a fake nose as her

Virginia Woolf

Playwright Edward Albee asked "Who's afraid of" this respected British novelist

Virginia Woolf

The fashionable but suffering Clarissa Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

This British author dedicated her 1928 novel "Orlando" to Vita Sackville-West

Virginia Woolf

This British author seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-02-14_J_11.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> first "Bloom"ed in 1882

Virginia Woolf

"Invitation to a Beheading" is an anti-utopian novel by this author of "Lolita"

Vladimir Nabokov

Composer Rachmaninoff lent this Russian-born novelist the money to come to the U.S. in 1940

Vladimir Nabokov

Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina"

Vladimir Nabokov

This "Lolita" author began writing in English while living in France

Vladimir Nabokov

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-04-07_J_15.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.</a>) Novel in which Moscow was without its inhabitants & the soldiers were sucked into her, radiating from the Kremlin

War and Peace

Natasha Rostova marries Pierre Bezukhov in this classic Tolstoy novel

War and Peace

Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long

War and Peace

Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters

War and Peace

"It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"

Washington Irving

A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name

Washington Irving

Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker

Washington Irving

Diedrich Knickerbocker

Washington Irving

During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders

Washington Irving

He rejected offers to run for Congress & Mayor of New York & to be Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy

Washington Irving

He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes

Washington Irving

He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York"

Washington Irving

He's the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone

Washington Irving

One contributor to "Knickerbocker" magazine was this author, who used Knickerbocker as a pseudonym

Washington Irving

Sunnyside, the old Dutch home he remodeled in Tarrytown, N.Y., was made a public shrine in 1947

Washington Irving

The "History of New York... by Diedrich Kickerbocker" was actually written by him

Washington Irving

While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne

Washington Irving

While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio

Washington Irving

The heroine of her 1923 novel "A Lost Lady" is based on Mrs. Silas Garber, wife of a governor of Nebraska

Willa Cather

The town of Red Cloud, Nebraska has a historical center devoted to this author

Willa Cather

This author of "My Antonia" set her last novel, "Sapphira And The Slave Girl", in Virginia, her home state

Willa Cather

A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here: ("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made")

William Butler Yeats

A poet who became a senator of the Irish Free State: I'm a subtle wit, really

William Butler Yeats

The title of this poet-playwright's 1893 book "The Celtic Twilight" became a synonym for the Irish literary revival

William Butler Yeats

"A Rose For Emily" is a well-known short story by this author of "The Sound And The Fury"

William Faulkner

"Absalom, Absalom!"

William Faulkner

"The Reivers"

William Faulkner

A degenerate bootlegger named Popeye abducts college coed Temple Drake in his 1931 novel "Sanctuary"

William Faulkner

He ventured from Oxford to Hollywood to write for the movies, including "The Big Sleep"

William Faulkner

His third published novel, "Sartoris", was the first he set in Yoknapatawpha County

William Faulkner

In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War

William Faulkner

Nobel Prize-winning Mississippian seen here

William Faulkner

Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay"

William Faulkner

Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what "you know... that little patch... in Mississippi where you started from"

William Faulkner

Stores around the town square of Oxford, Mississippi closed during his funeral at St. Peter's Cemetery

William Faulkner

This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson

William Faulkner

This author's "The Bear" is one of many stories dealing with the McCaslins of Yoknapatawpha County

William Faulkner

Towrard the end of World War I, this Mississippi-born author joined the Royal Air Force in Canada

William Faulkner

British novelist & satirist Makepeace

William Makepeace Thackeray

Much of this "Vanity Fair" author's novel "Henry Esmond" takes place during the reign of Queen Anne

William Makepeace Thackeray

Some consider this author's "The History of Henry Esmond" his greatest work, not "Vanity Fair"

William Makepeace Thackeray

This "Vanity Fair" author's novel "The Virginians", is a sequel to "Henry Esmond"

William Makepeace Thackeray

"The story of Nat Turner had been long gestating in my mind, ever since I was a boy", said this novelist

William Styron

He modeled Sophie in "Sophie's Choice" on a woman he met while living in Brooklyn

William Styron

In 1990's "Darkness Visible", this "Sophie's Choice" author wrote of his struggle with depression

William Styron

This "Sophie's Choice" author set his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness", in his native Virginia

William Styron


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