Quiz Bowl Literature Practice (writers)

Plautus

A character in one of this man's works dreams of being attacked by a monkey after not having lent that monkey a ladder. In that work by this man, a girl stolen from her parents by pirates attempts to escape her pimp, Labrax. Another of his works climaxes after a servant of Callidamates reveals to Theuropides that Philolaches has been partying and that his house is not haunted. This author of Rudens and Mostellaria wrote a play whose title slave makes a bet with Simo about his master Calidorus's attempt to save Phoenicium from slavery, as well as a play which ends with servants beating up the arrogant Pyrgopolinices. Lars Familiaris allows the miser Euclio to discover the title object of another of his plays. For 10 points, identify this author of Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Aulularia, an early Latin comic playwright.

Wole Soyinka

A character sings a song entitled "Don't Touch My Uniform" in his one-act play about Samba, entitled The Beatification of the Area Boy. Other plays by this author include A Play of Giants and Requiem for a Futurologist. One of this author's plays centers on Bero's denial of his culture, and in another, Baroka fights with Lankunle over the right to marry Sidi. Mr. Pilkins intervenes in the ritual suicide of Elesin Oba in another of this author's plays. For 10 points, identify this author of Madmen and Specialists, The Lion and the Jewel, and Death and the King's Horseman, a Nigerian.

Allen Ginsberg

A speaker of one of this man's poems eats "reality sandwiches" and admits "a naked lunch is natural to us." The speaker of another of this man's poems asserts that "Death is that remedy all singers dream of" as he walks in Greenwich Village thinking of his mother Naomi. The refrain "I'm with you in Rockland" appears in another poem by this author of "Kaddish." That poem by this man begins, "I saw the best (*) minds of my generation destroyed by madness." For 10 points, name this Beat poet who wrote "Howl."

Virgil

An unattributable work by this author, "The Mosquito," comprises a namesake appendix along with the Catalepton. He wrote of the love between Corydon and Alexis as well as a prophecy of the coming of a Messiah in two of his Eclogues. Hesiod's Works and Days formed the basis for another of his works, which deals with cures for goat diseases, strong thoroughbred horses, and mythological bees. In addition to The Georgics, he wrote of Evander, Lavinia and Dido in an epic poem about the founding of Rome. For 10 points, name this author of The Aeneid.

Thomas Mann

At his death, this author left an unfinished novel about the confidence man Felix Krull. He wrote a tetralogy about the Biblical Joseph during this author's exile from his native country, while earlier he wrote about his hometown Lübeck for his novel centering on the decline of the titular mercantile family. This author of Buddenbrooks also wrote novels about Hans Castorp's stay in a Swiss sanatorium and Gustav von Aschenbach's obsession with Tadzio in the titular Italian city. For 10 points, name this German author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice.

Hermann Hesse

Erwin hands a clay figurine to his anti-superstitious friend Friedrich in this man's short story "Within and Without." Tu Fu and Louis attempt to help their friend, the title painter, in his novel Klingsor's Last Summer, and Pistorius becomes the mentor of Emil Sinclair, who searches for the title character in his Demian. Joseph Knecht's successor to the title of Magister Ludi narrates his Glass-Bead Game, and a better known novel ends when Hermine is stabbed by the title character, Harry Haller. For 10 points, name this German author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.

Homer

George Chapman translated this author's two main works into English. This author used the epithets "wine-dark" to describe the sea and "grey-eyed" to describe Athena. One of this author's title characters is attacked by the Laestrygonians, and calls himself "No-Man" to escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus. An epic poem by this author begins by depicting the wrath of Achilles, and ends with a victorious army hiding inside the Trojan Horse. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek poet of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

e. e. cummings

He claimed that "kindness and goodness do not make a fellow tall" in "Lily has a Rose," and retold the story of Little Eva and Eliza in his ballet Tom. He wrote of males who "cannot chat of this and that" in "the boys i mean are not refined." He told of a man "more blond than you" who "will not kiss your ... flag" in his "I Sing of Olaf, Glad and Big." He wrote of "someones marrying their everyones/ laughing their cryings" in one work, and told of a French concentration camp run by Appolyon in World War I in a work based on Pilgrim's Progress. For 10 points, name this author of "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" and The Enormous Room.

George Orwell

He wrote about Gordon Comstock and Dorothy Hare in two of his earlier novels, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and A Clergyman's Daughter. He told of his childhood in an autobiographical essay published three years after his death, Such, Such Were the Joys and described his experiences among poor miners in northern England in The Road to (*) Wigan Pier. He warned against using overly obtuse and meaningless speech in his essay Politics and the English Language using the example of "a not unblack dog". His first book talked about his time in the title cities, Down and Out in Paris and London, and other works based in his travels include Homage to Catalonia and Burmese Days. His most famous works include characters like Parsons, Syme, and Boxer, and, more centrally, Napoleon and Winston Smith. FTP name this author of Animal Farm and 1984.

Franz Kafka

In one of his stories, the European guest of a caravan stops at an oasis and talks to an old dog-like animal. In addition to "Jackals and Arabs," he wrote about an ape that learned to act like a human and that gives the title "Report to an Academy." In one of his novels, a bank employee is arrested without reason and receives no answers, while in another novel, a man dies when his father throws an apple at him after turning into a "vermin." For 10 points, name this creator of Joseph K. and Gregor Samsa, the author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.

Miguel Asturias

He wrote about a battle between Catalina and Yumí to control the title moon spirit in one work, while he criticized the Central American fruit industry in a series containing the novels The Cyclone, The Green Pope, and The Eyes of the Interred. This author of Mulata de tal and The Banana Trilogy wrote a work which describes pre-Colombian Mayan civilization using elements of magical realism, and his more well known works include one in which Nicho is transformed into a coyote and Gaspar Ilom is killed by planters, and another in which Colonel Sonriente is murdered by the Zany, but Abel Carvajal and General Canales are accused of the crime. For 10 points—name this author of Leyendas de Guatemala, Men of Maize and El Señor Presidente.

Voltaire

His characters include Formosante, who searches for her lover in The Princess of Babylon, and the Scythian Babouc, who sees the fall of Persepolis in The World as it Is. His poetic works include The Wordly One, an apologia about the author's love of physical comforts; Epistle to Urania, which rejects Christian orthodoxy; and An Essay on Epic Poetry, which was written in English to promote his epic, The Henriad. One of his plays centers on a queen of Messina who marries Polyphonte, Merope, while, in his most popular tragedy, the sultan Orosman kills the title slave girl, Zaire. FTP, name this prolific author whose most famous tale follows the adventures of Cacambo, Cunegonde, and Pangloss and is called Candide.

James Joyce

His first publication was a collection of 36 love poems entitled Chamber Music. Stephen Hero was a posthumous publication that contained large portions of another of his works, while Humphrey Chimpdon appears in another work, Finnegan's Wake. "Eveline", "Araby", "The Dead" and twelve other stories appear in one of his works depicting the middle class life of residents of the title city, while another work about Leopold Bloom contained allusions to a work by Homer. For 10 points, identify this Irish author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Ulysses.

Yukio Mishima

Hisao reveals to Asako that he plans to assassinate his father in this man's play The Rokumeikan. Akio likens the tears of his former lover to the title objects in "Fountains in the Rain," from his collection Acts of Worship. Noguchi marries the proprietress of the Setsugoan in his After the Banquet. Fusako's fiancé Ryuji is given drugged tea at the end of another of this man's novels, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In one of his works, the line "when you meet the Buddha, kill him" convinces Mizoguchi to burn down the Kinkakuji. For 10 points, name this author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Confessions of a Mask who killed himself on live TV in Japan.

Nikolai Gogol

In a story by this author, a demon has eyelids that drag on the ground, and the seminarian Khoma has a deadly encounter with a witch. In addition to "Viy," he wrote about a Cossack whose son Ostap is killed by Polish troops. Another of his novels sees a man scam five hundred rubles and admit that he is not the title figure despite Anton's confusion. In addition to Taras Bulba and The Inspector General, this author wrote about a copyist who becomes a ghost near Kalinkin Bridge after his expensive garment is stolen. For 10 points, name this writer of "The Overcoat."

Jack Kerouac

In one novel by this author, the protagonist almost decides to join the agrarian community of a Mexican woman named Terry. Old Bull Lee is a drug addict who appears in a novel by this author, who described climbing Matterhorn Peak with Gary Snyder in his novel The Dharma Bums. This author fictionalized himself as (*) Sal Paradise in a novel that centers on his escapades with Neal Cassady, who is fictionalized as Dean Moriarty. For 10 points, name this writer from the Beat generation who wrote On the Road.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In one novel by this author, the student Dyomka has his leg amputated against the advice of Asya, and another of this man's novels includes research done by Sologdin and refused by the mathematician Nerzhin. In addition to Cancer Ward and The First Circle, this man wrote a novel in which an orderly writes poetry and the Baptist Alyosha has been imprisoned for his religion. That novel also features the the title character's squad leader Tiurin, and this man also wrote an autobiographical work with a similar setting. For 10 points, name this Russian author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.

Jorge Luis Borges

In one of his stories a gunman uses mystic Jewish symbolism to trap and shoot the detective Erik Lonrot. In addition to "Death and the Compass," this man wrote a story in which a French writer attempts to write a word-for-word recreation of a Cervantes novel in "Pierre Menard, Author of the (*) Quixote." His other works include thought experiments like "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and one that explores an infinite collection of books. For 10 points, name this man who included "The Aleph," "Library of Babel," and "The Garden of Forking Paths" in his collection Ficciones.

T. S. Eliot

In one of his works the psychiatrist Henry Harcourt-Reilly reconciles Edward and Lavinia by convincing them to host the title event, and another poem offers the bleak image, "Tenants of the house / thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." He calls the river "a strong brown god" and is satisfied with "the life of significant soil" in "The Dry Salvages," part of a work whose other sections include "East Coker" and Burnt Norton." The refrain "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME" appears in the section "A Game of Chess" in a poem that begins "April is the cruelest month." FTP, identify this author of "Gerontion," The Four Quartets, and "The Waste Land."

William Faulkner

In one of this author's novels, Gail Hightower has a vision of an enormous wheel, and Percy Grimm shoots a man who killed Joanna Burden. Rosa Coldfield narrates another of this author's novels, which focuses on the father of Charles Bon, Thomas Sutpen. In one of his novels, Cash loses his leg and Darl is taken to an insane asylum during a journey to Jefferson to bury Addie Bundren. For 10 points, name this American author, who set many of his novels in Yoknapatawpha County, including Light in August, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury.

Haruki Murakami

In one of this author's novels, the protagonist is interrogated by policemen named Bookish and Fishermen about the murder of Mei after befriending a thirteen year old psychic at the Dolphin Hotel. In another, the protagonist avoids INKlings during a journey to an underground laboratory, and is assigned to read dreams from unicorn skulls by "the gatekeeper." This author of Dance, Dance, Dance wrote about a trilogy of novels about "the Rat," including A Wild Sheep Chase, as well as Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. For 10 points, name this contemporary Japanese novelist of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Henrik Ibsen

In one of this author's plays, the son of Albert Allmers is killed by the Rat Wife. In another of this author's plays, Judge Kroll accuses Rebecca West of attempting to manipulate the clergyman Johannes. In addition to Little Eyolf and Rosmersholm, this playwright created characters like the daughter of Hjalmar Ekdal, who shoots herself after talking to Gregers Werle, and Nora Helmer, who leaves her husband Torvald. For 10 points, name this Norwegian playwright of The Wild Duck, Ghosts, and A Doll's House.

O. Henry

In one of this author's short stories, Judge Menefee tells a lady to award an apple to the man who tells the best story about the hermit Redruth, only to discover that she has eaten it herself. Besides "The Sphinx Apple," this author wrote many stores about the con men Andy Tucker and Jeff Peters, as well as stories set in the West like "The Caballero's Way." His collections include Cabbages and Kings and The Four Million. For 10 points, name this author who used plot twists in short stories like "The Last Leaf," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and "The Gift of the Magi."

Ernest Hemingway

In one of this man's works, Thomas Hudson comes to terms with the death of his kids and hunts for a damaged German boat. He wrote a work in which Harry Morgan runs contraband, and also wrote of Robert and Maria, who clash with Paolo, in the stories "Islands in the Stream" and "True at First Light." Another short story by this author sees Al and Max discuss murdering the boxer Ole Andreson. That work is "The Killers," which includes his recurring character Nick Adams. This man's longer works include To Have and Have Not and one in which Manolin assists the fisherman Santiago. For 10 points, name this author of A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

Aldous Huxley

In one of this writer's novels, the editor of The Literary World constantly tries to sleep with Beatrice Gilray, who decided to remain a virgin after her uncle molested her in a taxi as a child. In that novel, Frank Illidge and Maurice Spandrell collaborate to murder the leader of the Brotherhood of British Freemen, Everard Webley. This author described Philip Quarles and Walter Bidlake in his novel Point Counter Point and wrote about Denis Stone visiting the title estate in Crome Yellow. This author wrote a novel that describes Bokanovsky's Process of cloning and sees Lenina Crowe and Bernard Marx visit the New Mexico Savage Reservation. For 10 points, name this British author who wrote about John the Savage growing up outside the World State in his novel Brave New World.

Victor Hugo

In one of this writer's novels, the wolf Homo helps Gwynplaine find the blind girl Dea. In addition to The Man Who Laughs, this author wrote a novel in which Griffenfield imprisons the pure maiden Ethel and is defeated by Ordener Guldenlew, Hans of Iceland. One of this author's books focuses on the escaped convict and caretaker of Collette, Jean Valjean, while another features the character Esmeralda and is about the bellringer Quasimodo. For ten points, identify this author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Toni Morrison

In one of this writer's novels, two feuding women named Heed and Christine share the mansion of dead hotel owner Bill Cosey, while another novel focuses on a community known as the Bottom, which is home to Nel Wright and the titular character, who accidentally drowns Chicken Little. Love and Sula are novels by this writer of Guitar Bains, Milkman Dead, and Pecola Breedlove, who aspires to look like Shirley Temple. In another of her novels, Paul D's relationship with Sethe sparks jealousy from the titular ghost. For 10 points, name this American writer of Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved.

Tennessee Williams

In one play by this author, carts drawn by two street sweepers remind readers of the inevitability of death. In another play, one character gives money to the Union of Merchant Seamen. Another play opens as the drug-addled Princess Kosmonopolis wakes up in the town of St. Cloud and makes love to the gigolo Chance Wayne. This author wrote plays about Kilman's arrival in a Central American town and about Dr. Cukrowicz's lobotomy on a mother whose homosexual son is cannibalized by a crowd of boys. Another play features the artist (*) Hannah Jelkes and tour guide Larry Shannon, who stay at a hotel owned by Maxine Faulk. Best known for a play where the horn of a unicorn is broken by Jim O'Connor, for 10 points, identify this dramatist of Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Suddenly Last Summer, The Night of the Iguana, and a play about Laura Wingfield, The Glass Menagerie.

Horace

In one poem by this author, the narrator encounters a boring poet on the Sacred Way and can't get out of the conversation until the bore is dragged to prison. Another poem by this author begins "Now it is time to drink," and notes that Cleopatra "sought to die more nobly." This author commissioned 27 boys and 27 girls to sing his Carmen Saeculare, and one poem by this author is addressed to Leuconoe and advises her to "trust as little as possible in tomorrow." He wrote the essay Ars Poetica. For 10 points, identify this ancient Roman author of the Satires and Epodes whose Odes contain a poem which includes the line "carpe diem."

Edgar Allan Poe

In one poem, this author called science the "true daughter of old time." This author also wrote the poem "The Conqueror Worm," which appears in his story in which Lady Rowena becomes the title character, "Ligeia." In another story by this man, Montresor describes how he got his revenge on Fortunato. Several of his stories feature the detective C. Auguste Dupin, including "The Purloined Letter." For 10 points, name this American writer known for such poems as "Lenore" and "The Raven."

William Shakespeare

In one poem, this man lamented loving a woman "as black as hell, as dark as night"; that poem is one of the twenty-eight poems he addressed to the "dark lady." This poet wrote that "music hath a far more pleasing sound" than the voice of his lover, whose "eyes are nothing like the sun." Another of this man's poems notes that "every fair from fair sometime declines" after calling the addresse "more beautiful and more (*) temperate." For 10 points, name this Elizabethan poet of "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and 153 other sonnets.

Langston Hughes

In one poem, this poet compared a Caribbean sunset to "God having a hemorrhage." Another of this writer's poems ends "Beautiful, also, is the sun. / Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people." This poet wrote about a singer who "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after "droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon," in "The Weary Blues." His poetry collections include Fine Clothes to the Jew and Shakespeare in Harlem. For 10 points, name this author of Montage of a Dream Deferred and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Alexander Pushkin

In one short story by this author, an engineer named Hermann tries to learn a gambling secret from the Count of St. Germain. He wrote a poem about a statue which muses about striking terror into the Swedes and he wrote a drama about a ruler whose reign saw the end of the Time of Troubles. In addition to "The Bronze Horseman" and Boris (*) Godunov, this author wrote a work in which the title character dances with Olga and later kills his friend Vladimir Lensky in a duel. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Eugene Onegin.

Anton Chekhov

In one short story by this man, a military officer and a doctor buy lozenges that they don't need as a pretext to flirt with the title figure, "The Chemist's Wife." One of his plays is about a man who is accused of marrying Sasha for her money after his convert wife Anna dies. In addition to Ivanov, he wrote of Andrey Prozorov's attempts to marry off Masha, Olga, and Irina. In another of his plays, the son of serfs Lopakhin purchases the Ranevsky estate and chops down the title trees. For 10 points, name this writer of Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and The Seagull.

Mark Twain

In one story by this author, Adam, Moses and Buddha are considered celebrities in heaven, and that story also sees a cranberry farmer named Sandy McWilliams answer the title character's questions about heaven. This author of "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" co-authored a work which contains stories about Silas Hawkins, Phillip Sterling and Henry Brierly, and the title character of another work by this author proves that Chambers and Tom Driscoll were switched at birth. This co-author of The Gilded Age and author of Pudd'nhead Wilson wrote a novel in which Edward VI rescues Tom Canty from a beating by the Royal Guards. For 10 points—name this author of The Prince and the Pauper, who wrote about the title character's journey down the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In one story by this author, Long Norton and William Monkhouse Lee are attacked by Edward Bellingham's reanimated mummy, while Joyce-Armstrong discovers that air-jungles of jellyfish and snake-like creatures live above 40,000 feet. This author of "Lot No. 249" and "The Horror of the Heights" wrote about Theodore Nemor being killed by his own invention and a war between the Doda and the Accala in two novels in a series about a man who was killed by a large sentient being he found when he drilled to the center of the earth in the story "When the World Screamed". For 10 points—name this creator of Professor George Challenger whose novels His Last Bow and The Valley of Fear focus on a character first introduced in A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes.

Ryuonosuke Akutagawa

In one work by this author, a disgruntled priest posts a sign claiming that a dragon will emerge from a lake on the 3rd of March, drawing a large crowd of people who think they witness that event. The narrator of an autobiographical story by this man has an aversion to the color yellow, constantly encounters raincoats, and reads a section from The Brothers Karamazov in his copy of Crime and Punishment. That story concerns an author who hallucinates about (*) gears. In another of his stories, a recently fired servant steals clothes from an old woman after watching her gather hairs from a corpse under the title gate. This author of "The Dragon" and "Cogwheels" wrote of seven witnesses giving varying accounts of a murder of a samurai. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of "In a Grove" and "Rashomon."

Guy de Maupassant

In one work by this man the protagonist's attempt to pick up the titular object lead him to be accused of theft, and in another work, the titular Madame and her employees attend her niece's confirmation. In addition to "A Piece of String" and" Madame Tellier's Establishment" he wrote about a Brazilian vampire spirit in "La Horla." A woman is snubbed after sleeping with a Prussian officer in this man's story "The Ball of Fat." For 10 points, name the prolific French short story writer who wrote about Madame Loisel losing a replica of the title piece of jewelry in "The Necklace."

Naguib Mahfouz

In one work by this man, a recently released criminal seeks revenge on his wife, former friend, and former mentor, but instead ends up killing two innocent people, while in another of this man's works, allegorical representations of religious figures are written about by an unnamed narrator who also describes the destitution of the titular location. In addition to The Thief and the Dogs and Children of the Alley, this man wrote about the attempts of Hamida to escape the titular location through marriage and prostitution in Midaq Alley. For 10 points, name this author who also wrote about three generations of a Muslim family from the time of World War I until the revolution of 1952 in his Cairo Trilogy.

Kenzaburo Oe

In one work by this man, the composer D's meetings with the title character drive him to commit suicide. In another of his works, the dog Leo digs up some corpses which brings disease to children staying in an isolated town, and is titled Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. Another of his work describes the return of Mitsuhiro and Takashi to Okubo. Better known for works that parallel his relationship with his developmentally disabled son Hakuri, for 10 points, identify this Japanese author of The Silent Cry and A Personal Matter.

Giovanni Boccaccio

In one work, this author describes how Lisetta's bragging about the fact that she is the lover of the angel Gabriel causes the downfall of Brother Alberto. Another story by this author concludes by describing how Griselda was made to unknowingly prepare a wedding for her estranged daughter by her jerk of a husband, Gualtieri. A biographical work by this author contains chapters on figures like Jocasta and Isis, and begins by describing one of the title figures, Eve. Another of his works begins by describing the mercenary Ciapelletto and contains characters like Emilia, Elissa and Panfilo. He also wrote On Famous Women, and his novel Filocolo may have inspired Chaucer's The Monk's Tale. For 10 points, name this author who told of seven women and three men telling stories and hiding from the Plague in The Decameron.

Ray Bradbury

In the essay "Just This Side of Byzantium," this author acknowledges that Greentown and the protagonist Douglas Spaulding are recreations of his childhood. In another of his works, he explored chaos theory in the story of a man who travels to hunt dinosaurs and accidentally stomps a butterfly, then returns to the present to find his society changed. His best-known work centers on a group that uses a salamander as its symbol. The protagonist of that work is influenced by Clarisse McClellan and the professor Faber and eventually begins to secretly read a Bible. After killing Captain Beatty and eluding the Mechanical Hound, Guy Montag is able to escape his past. FTP, name this author of "The Sound of Thunder," Dandelion Wine, and Fahrenheit 451.

Carlos Fuentes

In this man's most recent work, periodic "choruses" are interspersed between stories concerning a rancher who wants his four sons to be priests, and the rebellious son of the president. A Knight from Don Quixote and the glass found in Olmec tombs serve as repeated metaphors of the title concept in his The Buried Mirror. The myths of his country serve as material for historical analysis in the novel A Change of Skin, and his chief work of literary criticism is The New Hispano-American Novel. Philip II's construction of the Escorial is one of the settings in his Terra Nostra, while an avatar of the Aztec God of war is the narrator of Where the Air is Clear. For ten points, identify this Mexican novelist of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.

Isabel Allende

One novel by this author has a love interest who might be Joaquin Murieta. A sequel to that novel is narrated by Aurora and follows Clara, a clairvoyant mute who leaves notebooks her granddaughter Alba finds in another work. Her works Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia can be read as part of a trilogy following the del Valles. One of her works chronicles life at (*) Tres Marias, the Trueba family hacienda, before and after a military coup. For 10 points, name this Chilean author of The House of the Spirits.

Sylvia Plath

One of her poems accuses a character of being "pithy and historical as the Roman Forum," and another ends "I eat men like air." In addition to "The Colossus" and "Lady Lazarus," she wrote about "the substanceless blue" in "Ariel" and about how "every woman adores a fascist" in "Daddy." Her only novel was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas and describes the mental breakdown of magazine intern Esther Greenwood. For 10 points, name this author of The Bell Jar, which was published in the same year that she killed herself with a gas oven.

George Eliot

One of this author's characters is instructed by his father to curse Mr. Wakem in the family Bible. In the novel featuring that character, Tom gives his sister a fishing a rod at its beginning, leading her to forget about his rabbits. In another work by this author, Rosamind Vincy sets her sights on the newly arrived medical student Tertius Lydgate, who seeks funds from Bulstrode. In addition to a novel that ends with Maggie Tulliver and her brother drowning, her most notable novel chronicles the protagonist's life before and after the death of Edward Casaubon, and focuses on Will Ladislaw and Dorothea Brooke. For 10 points, name this author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.

Evelyn Waugh

One of this author's characters writes an article on green bowler hats, which is a strictly taboo subject in The Daily Express. Another of his works ends when Todd holds Tony Last prisoner and forces him to read Dickens novels aloud. Along with Vile Bodies and A Handful of Dust, he wrote of Anthony Blanche berating a narrator's career as an architectural painter, while Rex Mottram has an unfulfilling marriage with Julia Flyte. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One of this author's plays sees a character take the codename Raskolnikov and murder the Communist leader Hoederer after Hoederer messes around with Jessica. Another of his works sees Pablo Ibbieta give authorities false whereabouts for Ramon Gris, but Gris moves to the very spot Pablo has revealed. In addition to Dirty Hands and "The Wall," this author wrote a novel about the "sweetish sickness" of Roquentin. For 10 points, name this author who recounted the story of Orestes in The Flies and wrote of the child-killing Estelle and the lesbian Ines who torment Garcin in a work that posits "Hell is other people," this author's play No Exit.

Federico Garcia Lorca

One of this author's poems contains a section titled "Absent Soul" that notes "Your silent memory does not know you / because you have died forever" and ends with the speaker stating "I sing of his elegance with words that groan, / and I remember a sad breeze through the olive trees". That poem by this author sees its speaker repeat such refrains as "I will not see it!" and "It was five o'clock in the afternoon" while reacting to the passing of Ignacio Sanchez Mejas. His other works include one in which Leonardo and the Bridegroom duel to the death and one which includes a scene where the title character violently wash makeup off of Angustias. For 10 points, identify this author of "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter", Blood Wedding, and The House of Bernarda Alba.

Nadine Gordimer

One of this author's short stories sees Lucas killed when a rifle discharges through the roof of a truck, while another of this author's stories sees a woman inadvertently give a girl a toy containing a bomb which blows up a plane. Both of those stories are from this author's collection Jump, while one of this author's novels sees the main character rename herself "Hillela". Another of her novels sees the title character, Rosa, arrested, just like her parents had been. In addition to (*) A Sport of Nature, this author wrote about a man who purchases a 400 acre farm named Mehring in one novel. For ten points, name this author of Burger's Daughter and The Conservationist who wrote about the Smales family in July's People.

Alan Paton

One of this author's works is divided into six sections, including "The Cleft Stick," "Death of a Traitor," and "Into the Golden Age;" another of his works opens with the line "Perhaps I could have saved him, with only a word," is narrated by Sophie, and involves Pieter van Vlaanderen's guilt y love for [*] black women. In addition to Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and Too Late the Phalarope, he wrote about Mr. Jarvis, whose son Arthur has been killed by Absalom. For ten points, name this anti-apartheid South African author who wrote about the priest Stephen Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country.

Sir Walter Scott

One of this man's novels concerns the secret marriage of Amy Robsart to Robert Dudley, and in another novel, Jeanie Deans attains a pardon for her sister and a better farm for her father. In another novel, Frank Osbaldistone is helped by the title outlaw. In his most famous novel, the Black Knight turns out to be Richard the Lionheart, and Robin Hood helps lay siege to a castle to rescue Rowena. For 10 points, name this Scottish novelist of Kenilworth, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe.

John Coetzee

One of this man's novels is narrated by Susan Barton and is modeled on Robinson Crusoe, while another of his novels features the invasion of a frontier town by Colonel Joll and takes its title from a Constantine Cavafy poem. In addition to Foe and Waiting for the Barbarians, this man wrote about a hare-lipped gardener who journeys to his mother's hometown in one work, while another features a professor who loses his job after he seduces a student. The creator of the character David Lurie, for 10 points, identify this South African author of The Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace.

Carl Sandburg

One of this man's poems repeats the line "Shovel them under and let me work" and asks to "pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo." He also described something that "sits looking over harbor and city" and comes "on little cat feet." In addition to "Fog" and "Grass," this poet also wrote about "painted women under the gas lamps" in a city that he describes as the "Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat" and "Hog Butcher for the World." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Chicago."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One poem by this author asks "Do you question the young children in the sorrow / Why their tears are falling so?" That poem notes later that the title group doubts God because his "...possible is taught by His world's loving/and the children doubt of each". Another poem by this author features a narrator who claims that she "is not mad" but instead that she "is black" after she suffocates her baby for being "too white". Besides those poems, "The Cry of the Children" and "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point", this author wrote a collection of poems that feature lines such as (*) "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!" and "Yes, call me by my pet-name!" and a blank verse work in which Romney eventually chooses the title character over Marian Erle. For 10 points, name this poet, who wrote Aurora Leigh and penned the line "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" in her Sonnets from the Portuguese

Seamus Heaney

One poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase "PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL" and is an elegy for a man who "drank like a fish" before he was "blown to bits." He included the image of a "four foot box, a foot for every year" in a poem narrated by a student who "sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close." This author of "Casualty" wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects "jampotfulls" of (*) "frogspawn" in another poem. He wrote that "my squat pen rests" "between my finger and my thumb" in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included "Mid-Term Break" and "Digging" in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.

Rudyard Kipling

One poem by this author exhorts its readers to "Have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise." Another poem describes the things that the subject must learn to "be a man, my son," and begins most lines with the same conjunction. In a third poem, published in Barrack-Room Ballads, the narrator exclaims, "You're a (*) better man than I am, Gunga Din!" For 10 points, name this author of poems celebrating British expansionism, such as "The White Man's Burden."

Nikos Kazantzakis

One work by this author retells an ancient classic and sees the protagonist live the last year of his life in Antarctica after earlier traveling as a holy man in Africa. Another of his novels offers a controversial narrative of Jesus Christ from his own perspective. In addition to The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel and The Last Temptation, he wrote a novel that sees the main characters stay at the hotel of Madame Hortense. The title character of that novel later works as a foreman at a Cretan mine. For 10 points, name this Nobel Prize winning European author of Zorba the Greek.

Eugene O'Neill

One work by this author sees a strait-laced architect put on the mask of his dead friend Dion Anthony, and in another work by this author, Dr. Ned Darrell impregnates Nina Leeds. This author of The Great God Brown and Strange Interlude wrote expressionistic plays about Yank Smith and Brutus Jones, as well as a play about the arrival of Theodore Hickman to Harry Hope's Bar. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Hairy Ape and The Iceman Cometh, the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Santiago Nasar is stabbed because he slept with Angela Vicario in one work by this author, who titled another novel after a character who is immune to bullets and wants his mother canonized. The death of Juvenal Urbino allows his wife Fermina to pursue Florentino in one of his works, (*) Love in the Time of Cholera. Another of his novels involves a family whose matriarch fears she will have children with pig's tails and is married to Jose Arcadio Buendia. For 10 points, name this Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

James Agee

The Hound & Horn: A Harvard Miscellany included this author's first published poem "Anne Gardner." He authored a posthumously-published collection of letters to Father Flye, as well as the novella The Morning Watch and the poem "Descriptions of Elysium," which appears in his collection Permit Me Voyage. A rejected draft from Esquire became this author's travelogue describing backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that "roll silently to the sea," Brooklyn Is. He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel beginning with the prologue "Knoxville, Summer 1915," which set in LaFollette, where Rufus reacts to his father's death in a car crash. For 10 points, name this author of A Death in the Family who collaborated with Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Thornton Wilder

The protagonist of one novel by this author works several jobs after his car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island in 1926. In addition to writing Theophilus North, this author wrote a work featuring the maid Sabina which centers on the family of George Antrobus and is entitled The Skin of Our Teeth. This author wrote a novel about Brother Juniper, who witnesses the death of five interrelated people when the title structure collapses. This author wrote a play set at Grover's Corners about George Gibbs and Emily Webb. For 10 points, identify this American author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the play Our Town.

Chikamatsu Monazaemon

The protagonist of one of this man's works gives a jar to his friend instead of repaying a loan, and later dies after embezzling money in an attempt to buy out a courtesan's contract. Another of his works sees a man nicknamed "Hard Luck" stab a tobacco merchant in the head after drinking in a teahouse with Yojibei and Azuma. The title character of another work by this man is aided by the generals Kanki and Go Sankei in defeating the Manchu forces under Ri Toten. This author of The Courier for Hell and The Uprooted Pine also wrote a play in which the oil merchant Kuheiji scams Tokubei out of his dowry, after which Tokubei and Ohatsu kill themselves. For 10 points, name this author of such bunraku plays as The Battles of Coxinga and The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.

Mikhail Bulgakov

The title character of one of this author's novels gets a job as a purge director after being operated on by a rich and famous surgeon whose assistant is Ivan Bromenthal. That work opens with the title character complainong about the soup and mushrooms he has to have for supper, and sees the protagonist rid the city of counter-revolutionary cats. One of his title characters is given a cream which she uses before flying on a broom to Apartment 50 in which she hosts Satan's ball. He created the character Sharik, who is later named Polygraph Polygraphovich, and the gang of Koroviev, Azazello, Behemoth, and Professor Woland, who wreak havoc in Soviet era Moscow. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Heart of a Dog and Master and Margarita.

Leo Tolstoy

The title character of one work by this author cuts off his own finger to prevent himself from sleeping with the divorcee Makovkina. In addition to Father Sergius, his works include a trilogy beginning with the novel Childhood as well as a collection entitled Sevastopol Sketches. A more famous novel by this author of The Death of Ivan Ilych ends with the marriage between Natasha Rostov and Pierre Bezuhkov after Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote the lengthy but brilliant novel War and Peace.

George Chapman

The works of this poet, who attended Oxford University but left without earning a degree, include 1593's The Shadow of Night: Two Poeticall Hymnes and 1595's Ovids Banquet of Sence. His main fame, though, comes from his revered translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. For 10 points -- name this English poet, the subject of a poem by John Keats.

Robert Herrick

This author alleviated his boredom with rural life by teaching a pig to drink alcohol, and he praised the wearing of lawn linen in several works. This poet described a recurring figure who engages in several dialogues between pursuits of Juliana, Damon, and urged "Get up, sweet slug-a-bed" in another poem. This creator of the sexually graphic Julia poems penned "Delight in Disorder" and (*) "Corinna's Going A-Maying," and noted in a better-known poem that "for having lost but once your prime, you may for ever tarry" and that "this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." The author of the collection Hesperides, for 10 points, name this Cavalier poet who wrote that as "old time is still a-flying," one should "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" in "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time."

Arthur Koestler

This author challenged Aldous Huxley's views on drugs in his article "Return Trip to Nirvana" and wrote a history of early astronomy entitled The Sleepwalkers. This author's only play was Twilight Bar, while he wrote about the establishment of a kibbutz in occupied Palestine in his Thieves in the Night. Another work of this author features psychoanalyst Sonia Bulgar and a man who escapes to Neutralia after refusing to give information to Fascists despite being burned with cigars, (*) Peter Slavek. This author's best-known work features a character known first as Hare-Lip, who the protagonist's former associate, Kieffer, and who testifies against the protagonist, the ex-Comissar of the People imprisoned in cell 404. For 10 points name this Hungarian-born author of Arrival and Departure who wrote about Rubashov's imprisonment and execution in Darkness at Noon.

Joseph Heller

This author chronicled the succession of owners of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in the novel Picture This. King Solomon is nicknamed "Shlomo" and derives all of his wisdom from clay tablets in his retelling of the David story, God Knows. In one of his works, Bruce Gold becomes Secretary of State, and another sees Bob Slocum accidentally smother his injured son. In addition to Good as Gold and Something Happened, another of his novels is set on Pianosa and features the characters Colonel Cathcart and Milo Minderbinder. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote about Major Major Major Major and Yossarian in Catch-22.

Neil Simon

This author combined ten Chekhovian sketches, including "The Sneeze" and "The Audition," into the play The Good Doctor. Ken Gorman, Lenny Ganz and others try to figure out why their host Charley shot himself in the ear in his farce Rumors, while another play sees Yvonne Fouchet try to reunite three marriages over a mysterious dinner party. Another work chronicles the mental breakdown of Mel Edison in his East Side apartment, and in another, the attic-squatting neighbor Velasco helps Corie Bratter convince her husband Paul to be more spontaneous. In addition to The (*) Prisoner of Second Avenue and Barefoot in the Park, he depicted Ben Silverman reuniting the vaudeville team of Willie Clark and Al Lewis, and also a play in which Blanche's abandonment of her sportswriter husband, as well as Frances' of a copywriter, cause two poker buddies to move in together. For 10 points, name this author of The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple.

Anne Bradstreet

This author is asked "moved you not, restless, waiting for him?" in an "homage" to her by John Berryman. She laments "so it was, and so 'twas just" after noting that her belongings were "now in the dust" in another poem. This author of "Upon the Burning of Our House" wrote a poem addressing an "ill-formed (*) offspring of my feeble brain" in "The Author to Her Book." For 10 points, name this author of "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America," a seventeenth century American poet.

Henry James

This author is the subject of Colm Tóibín's novel The Master. This author of the short stories "The Altar of the Dead" and "The Beast in the Jungle" wrote a novel in which Charlotte Stant has an affair with Prince Amerigo, The Golden Bowl. He also created Lambert Strether, the protagonist of The (*) Ambassadors. He also wrote a novel whose title character is Isabel Archer and a novella whose title character dies of malaria in Rome. For 10 points, name this author of The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller.

Ann Brontë

This author of the poem "The Narrow Way" was a sister of Charlotte Bronte. Her two novels are Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Pierre Corneille

This author put forth a "theatrical fiction" akin to a "legal fiction," by describing a room in multiple apartments at once in which characters can speak in secrecy. That idea was put forth in a text that attacked both Aristotle's critique of the chariot deus ex machina in Medea and his insistence that "complication," and "resolution" are the two components of a plot, because this author contends complication "depends entirely on the imagination of the poet." That text is Discourse on the Classical Unities. That discourse was written after one of his plays was the subject of a smear campaign by (*) Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy, even though he would regain the favor of both by writing a play in which the title figure faces the three Curiatii brothers. In that first play, the title character and Don Sancho duel for Chimene. For 10 points, name this author that adapted a poem about a Spanish soldier into Le Cid.

Isaac Singer

This author won a National Book Award for his collection A Crown of Feathers. Many of his works, like the novel The Slave and the story "The Slaughterer", advocate vegetarianism. He wrote about Hermann Broder's accidental bigamy and about the many loves of the stage magician Yasha Mazur in his works Enemies: A Love Story and The Magician of Lublin, respectively. The messianic cult of (*) Shabbatai Zevi sweeps the title town in another work by this author. His most famous short story is about a man who marries the unfaithful Elka, is mocked by Rietze the Candle-Dipper, and is told by the Spirit of Evil to use urine in his baking. For 10 points, name this Jewish-American author of Satan in Goray and "Gimpel the Fool."

Anatole France

This author wrote a book about a painter who studies under Jacques David before ordering the Death of his Friend Maurice Brotteaux as a member of the Grand Tribunal during the Reign of Terror. In addition to that novel about Evariste Gamelin, he wrote about a monk's efforts to convert the title Egyptian courtesan to Christianity in a novel that inspired a Massanet opera. This author of the The Gods Are Athirst wrote a book about a man who travels to Italy to buy a rare book from Signor Polizzi only to learn the book was sent to Paris, while another novel sees the monk Mael baptize a society of the title creatures living at the North Pole. For 10 points, name this French author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and Penguin Island.

Chinua Achebe

This author wrote a satirical novel about the schoolteacher Odili's opposition to the Minister of Culture, Nanga. In addition to A Man of the People, he wrote about a character who staples people's hands in the fictional Republic of Kangan. In another of his novels, (*) Obi accepts bribes after he is sent to study in England by the Umuofia Progressive Union. Umuofia is also the setting of his most famous novel, in which Okonkwo hangs himself. For 10 points, name this author of Anthills of the Savannah, No Longer at Ease, and Things Fall Apart.

Flannery O'Connor

This author wrote a story in which the title body part is covered with a Jesus tattoo, "Parker's Back." One of her novels is about the teenage preacher Francis Marion Tarwater, and she also wrote a story in which Julian's racist mother is smacked with a purse after demeaning a black child. In another story by this author, Mrs. (*) Crater pays Tom Shiftlet to marry her mute daughter Lucynell. In her most famous story, a family is murdered by "The Misfit." For 10 points, name this American author of "The Live You Save May Be Your Own" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."

Emily Brontë

This author wrote about "thy kind voice call[ing her] back again" in the poem "To Imagination." One novel by this author tells of how the antagonist is bullied by Hindley before raising and abusing Hindley's son Hareton. That work by this author starts with the arrival of Mr. (*) Lockwood at Thrushcross Grange. The antagonist of that work by this author persecutes Edgar Linton for marrying Catherine Earnshaw and is named Heathcliff. For 10 points, name this author of Wuthering Heights, who was the sister of Anne and Charlotte.

Ivan Turgenev

This author wrote about Elena falling for Dmitri Isarov in his novel On the Eve. This author wrote a novella in which Dmitri Sanin sells his estate to move to Germany and wrote a collection including the stories "Khor and Kalinych" and "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife." This author of The Torrents of Spring and A Sportsman's Sketches wrote about the student Arkady Kirsanov, who is visited by the student Bazarov. For 10 points, name this Russian author who wrote about the nihilist Bazarov in his novel Fathers and Sons.

Thomas Pynchon

This author wrote about Learned English Dog in a work that sees the title characters travel to the Horn of Africa and predict a solar eclipse. DEA agent Hector Zuniga pursues Zoyd Wheeler in another book by this author, who wrote about the Paranoids in a work centering on an organization overcome by Thurn und Taxis. This author of (*) Mason and Dixon wrote a work in which a muted post-horn symbolizes the Trystero organization, which bids on stamps and is investigated by Oedipa Maas. This author of V. also created the character Tyrone Slothrop, whose erections predict V-2 rocket strikes. For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, a reclusive American novelist.

Charlotte Brontë

This author wrote about Louis Gerard Moore's courtship of the owner of Fieldhead, Mrs. Keeldar, in her novel Shirley. In another novel by her, we learn that the brat John grows up to be an alcoholic and dies early, while Helen Burns succumbs to an epidemic of fever. Jean Rhys wrote a prequel to this author's major work, which sees the title character sent to live with the harsh Mrs. Reed before arriving at Thornfield. In that work, a fire reveals that Bertha Mason still lives upstairs. For 10 points, name this writer who created Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.

Milan Kundera

This author wrote about a character who is forced to become a window cleaner after publishing an article about Oedipus. In that novel, the protagonists own a dog that dies of cancer, named Karenin. Franz and (*) Sabina are characters created by this author in a novel whose protagonists die when they are crushed while changing a tire. In a novel featuring Tomas and Teresa, this author wrote about a female photographer taking pictures of tanks rolling in to crush the Prague Spring. For 10 points, name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Athol Fugard

This author wrote about two inmates who rehearse for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone every night, and another of this author's works features the attempts of Elsa and Pastor Byleveld to help Miss Helen. This author of The Island and The Road to Mecca wrote a work in which Styles photographs a man pretending to be the dead Robert Zwelinzima. He wrote about the bond between the brothers Zachariah and Morris. Another work by this author sees the servants Sam and Willie practice ballroom dancing. For 10 points, name this author of Sizwe Banzi is Dead and Blood Knot, an playwright from South Africa who wrote about Hally in Master Harold... and the Boys.

Umberto Eco

This author wrote an essay in which he removes the entire contents of a hotel fridge in an attempt to store a smoked salmon. Another of his works features the title figure's partnership with the monopod Gavagai, and Roberto della Griva becomes obsessed with his evil twin after being shipwrecked near the International Date Line in his The Island of the Day Before. Three editors' use of Abulafia to create the Plan leads to Belbo's hanging on the title object in one of his works, and this author wrote about a series of mysterious deaths in a monastery in a novel narrated by Adso of Melk. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.

Octavio Paz

This author wrote that "the best thing to do will be to choose the path to Galta, traverse it again" and then "go to the end" in one work. This author could not decide "Between leaving and staying" in a work that also includes "Golden Lotuses" and "Stars and Cricket" in his collection A Draft of Shadows. This author wrote about Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz in The Traps of Faith, penned The Monkey Grammarian, and wrote and about a "willow of crystal, a poplar of water" in another work. This author divided his most famous work about his nation's national identity into nine sections such as "The Sons of La Malinche," "From Independence to the Revolution," and "The Day of the Dead." For 10 points, identify this Mexican author of Sunstone and The Labyrinth of Solitude.

Carson McCullers

This author's unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, was released over 30 years posthumous in 1999. Novels include one about a latent homosexual officer and his nymphomaniac wife, and one about Jester, Fox Clane, and J.T. Malone. In addition to Reflections in a Golden Eye and A Clock Without Hands, she wrote the short stories "A Domestic Dilemna" and "The Sojourner" in one collection. One of her more famous works features Janice Evans getting married to Jarvis, the brother of the title character, Frankie Addams, while her most famous novel includes Jake Blount, a drunk who frequents Biff Brannon's New York Cafe, as well as (*) Spiros Antonapoulos and John Singer, both of whom are deaf-mutes. FTP, name this author of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Member of the Wedding, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Luigi Pirandello

This man described a character who has an epitelioma near his mustache, and the Agazzi family watch the conflict between Signora Frolla and Signor Ponza over Signora Ponza's identity in another work. In addition to The Man With the Flower in His Mouth and Right you are! (If you think you are), he wrote about a guy who goes to Monte Carlo and is mistaken for being dead, The Late Mattea Pascal, and a work in which a man who falls off of a horse believes he is the title Holy Roman Emperor. Better known for a work featuring a Boy, Girl, Mother, Father, Stepdaughter, and Son, for 10 points, name this author of Enrico IV and Six Characters in Search of An Author.

Tom Stoppard

This man described a couple trying to bribe Holmes with a banana in a play featuring Foot before writing about Anish Das and Flora Crew in the two plays After Magritte and Indian Ink. This author that wrote about Charlotte and Max performing The House of Cards in the play The Real Thing collaborated with Andre Previn in his Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Mikhail Bakunin and Ivan Turgenev were integrated by this author's, The Coast of Utopia. The title characters of another of his plays hop into barrels when pirates attack a ship after their friend performs The Murder of Gonzago. For ten points, name this author that created a man that gets lots of heads after flipping coins in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

William Cullen Bryant

This man wrote "A Discourse on the Life and Genius of James Fenimore Cooper." His poems include one written upon the death of his wife, "October, 1866," and a poem that includes the lines "Thou comest not when violets lean/O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen," "To the Fringed Gentian." He is best-known, however, for a poem that asks "Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue/Thy solitary way?" and a meditation on death written at the age of seventeen. For 10 points, name this author of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis."

Walt Whitman

This man wrote "We are Nature, long have we been absent" in "We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd." This poet discusses "the armies of those I love" in one poem, and he recalled when "the great star early droop'd in the western sky" and asserted that "our fearful trip is done" in two poems memorializing Abraham (*) Lincoln. For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" as well as a poem that begins "I celebrate myself," "Song of Myself," in his Leaves of Grass.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This man wrote a play in which the Duke of Alba orders the execution of the title count. This author of the poetry collection The Roman Elegies wrote a poem in which a supernatural being attacks a child while the child and father are riding on a horse. That poem is entitled "The Erl-King." One of his characters shoots himself after being unable to be with his beloved (*) Charlotte. He also wrote a work in which the title scholar is tempted by and makes a wager with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

This man wrote a story set at a party hosted by the landowner Julian, and a novel about two cousins living in shoddy apartments; those works are "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" and Poor Folk. He wrote about a man who goes to Roulettenburg with Madamoiselle Blanche, Alexei Ivanovich, and about Natasya Fillipovna's murderer Rogozhin. This author of The Gambler wrote about the "sick and spiteful man" who meets the prostitute Liza, and he wrote about a pawnbroker's murder by Raskolnikov. For 10 points, name this author of The Idiot, Notes From Underground, and Crime and Punishment.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This man wrote about Reuben Bourne killing his son at the spot where he left his dying comrade, and about another man who discovers the Unpardonable Sin. This author also wrote of Reverend Hooper's refusal to remove the title object, and of (*) Aylmer's removal of the title blemish at the cost of his wife Georgiana's life. This author included "Roger Malvin's Burial," "Ethan Brand," "The Minister's Black Veil," and "The Birthmark" in his Mosses from an Old Manse and Twice Told Tales. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

Robert Browning

This poet described God as the one who "fixed thee 'mid this dance, of plastic circumstance" in a poem about a Spanish religious leader. Another of his narrators proclaims "all her hair, in one long yellow string I wound, three times her little throat around" in describing the murder of Porphyria. This author of (*) "Rabbi Ben Ezra" also created a narrator who recalls the "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" while looking at a portrait by Fra Pandolf. For 10 points, name this writer of "My Last Duchess," the husband of fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This poet wrote "I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise from me" in a poem which asks the sea to "break, break, break on thy cold gray stones." Another of his poems ends "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." This poet collected verses based on Arthurian legend in his Idylls of the King. A group of British horsemen go "half a (*) league, half a league, half a league onward" in his poem based on a Crimean War battle. For 10 points, name this British poet of "Ulysses" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Phillis Wheatley

This poet wrote defenses of piety in "An Address to the Atheist" and "An Address to the Deist." She wrote that "A monarch's smile can set his people free" in "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" which celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and gained prominence with an elegy on the death of George Whitefield. Most of her poems were published in the book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, and she described her own situation in "On being brought from Africa to America." For 10 points, name this early African-American poet.

Andrew Marvell

This poet wrote that "The thundering cannon now begins the fight, / And though it be noon creates a night" in his poem "Blake's Victory," while he wrote about a person who "with her Eyes my Heart does bind" and whose "Voice might captivate my Mind" in "The Fair Singer." He wrote that "After two sittings, now our Lady State / To end her picture does the third time wait" in a poem satirizing an Anglo-Dutch War, "Last Instructions to a Painter," and he claimed that "Society is all but rude, / To this delicious Solitude" in his poem "The (*) Garden." A man, who is "superfluously spread, / Demands more room alive than dead" in his poem "Upon Appleton House," while he is best known for describing the "Iron gates of Life" and "Times winged Chariot" in a carpe diem poem that begins "Had we but World enough, and Time." For 10 points, name this author of "To His Coy Mistress."

Terence

This writer complained about his audience being distracted by a rope-dancer in the prologue to one of his plays. In the prologue to his last work, this author admits plagiarizing Linked By Death, a work of Diphilus. In that play, Micio raises his nephew Aeschinus and Demea brings up Ctesiphon. This author of The Mother-in-Law wrote a play in which Parmeno introduces Chaerea to the title character, and Pamphila is a gift for Thais from Phaedria and Thraso. For 10 points, name this Roman playwright of The Eunuch who was brought from Carthage as a slave, who often adapted the plots of Menander and wrote for a more sophisticated audience than his predecessor Plautus.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

While a member of the Semi-Colon club, a literary group in Cincinnati, this author did publish a number of short stories in Godey's Lady's Book. In one short-story by this author Giuletta is advised that "Eagles make bad work in dove-cots" regarding a certain cavalier with whom she flirts and Girolamo Savonarola is an important character in this author's "Agnes of Sorrento." Though this author is not Lillian Hellman, this author did write a work Little Foxes under the pen name Christopher Crowfield. In one of this author's novels, Ophelia Sinclaire, the cousin of Augustine, takes her to task for defending a certain institution and the title character at one point tries to write based on the instructions he received from Mas'r George. For 10 points, name this American author whose little anti-slavery book started a war according to Abraham Lincoln.