Lit Quiz Part #3

What decade was the book "The man in the gray flannel suit" released?

1950s (1956 movie had peck and Frederic March)

Lois Lowry wrote what novel about a 12-year-old Jewish girl with what first name? The series followed the title character navigating challenges like her parents having another child and was banned from schools for references to beer and Playboy.

Anastasia (Krupnik)

The first line of "The Canterbury Tales" is quoted under the OED entry for this month

April (When April with his showers sweet with fruit)

In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek

Aristotle

A lovesick nurseryman, a women's music fest & a retreat for rich men are in the 5th of his "Tales of the City"

Armistead Maupin

What Swedish author is probably best known (at least in the United States) for her Pippi Longstocking series of children's books?

Astrid Lingren

Gene Hackman received his first Oscar nom for Best Supporting Oscar for what 1967 film?

Bonnie & Clyde

Robert James Waller's second bestseller left the bridges of Madison County for a "Slow Waltz in" this title place

Cedar Bend

Drake tells Trent he, like this book's Homer Wells, was taught medicine in an orphanage

Cider House Rules

This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's "Odyssey" set during the Civil War

Cold Mountain

This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations

Commedia del'arte

In "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert meets a guy from Brazil; soon she's ready to be this, her follow-up book all about marriage

Committed

A 1927 visit to Etruscan sites inspired this author of "The Plumed Serpent" to write "Etruscan Places"

D. H. Lawrence

This former lawyer turned novelist created the "King and Maxwell," "Camel Club," and "Memory Man" thriller series, but may remain best known for his debut, Absolute Power.

David Baldacci

About 60 years after the event, this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "a Journal of the Plague Year" based on real accounts

Defoe

St. Lucia has had two Nobel laureates, and therefore has the highest number of Nobel winners per capita. This is owing in part to whose 1992 Literature win, for works including the Homeric epic Omeros?

Derek Walcott

What Michael Crichton novel revolves around sexual harassment allegations at DigiCom, a fictional Cupertino, California based tech company? It focuses on a division manufacturing an advanced CD-ROM drive, and the film adaptation featured Demi Moore and Michael Douglas in the leading roles.

Disclosure

Walter Kaufmann called "Notes from Underground" by this Russian "the best overture to existentialism ever written"

Dostoyevsky

This title horror character was created by its author at 6 Royal Crescent in the resort of Whitby in Yorkshire

Dracula

A sisterhood known as the Bene Gesserit (BEN-ee JESS-er-it) are a powerful force in the universe of what science fiction series?

Dune

Known primarily for his crime novels, he started out writing western tales like "Hombre" & "3:10 to Yuma"

Elmore Leonard

Played by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified", Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story "Fire in the Hole" by this author

Elmore Leonard (also did Rum Punch)

His "Les Rougon-Macquart" series includes "Germinal" & "Nana"

Emile Zola

Fourth Wing and Iron Flame are titles of the best-selling "romantasy" books released in 2023. Give either the name of the series of which these are the first two installments, or the name of the books' American author.

Empyrean Series, Rebecca Yarros

What 2021 debut novel by Ojibwe author Angeline Boulley follows a halfNative, half-white young adult who witnessed her friend's murder and goes undercover to find the killer?

Firekeeper's daughter

This divorcing doctor is "in trouble" in a novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner & the FX adaptation

Fleishman

Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War

For whom the bell tolls

Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature

Gabriela Mistral

When a green-skinned party crasher on a green horse ruins Christmas at Camelot, this nephew of Arthur isn't having it

Gawain

A Japanese court lady known as Murasaki wrote one of the world's first novels, "The Tale of" him

Genji

She's the author of the female empowerment bestseller "Untamed" & the wife of Abby Wambach

Glennon Doyle (2020)

This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses"

Goodbye, Columbus

The OED entry for "she" cites "'she-who-must-be-obeyed' commands thy presence" from a work by this adventure novelist

H. Rider Haggard

Even though they have only had one laureate, Iceland has one of the highest number of Nobel Prize winners per capita, owing to whose 1955 win? He is best known for the book Independent People.

Halidor Laxness

"To Paradise" is a 2022 popular dystopian fiction novel by what author? She also wrote "A Little Life"

Hanya Yanagihara

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind is a hard-nosed school superintendent in what Charles Dickens novel?

Hard times

Former basketball player turned sports agent Myron Bolitar, who played basketball at Duke and then went to Harvard Law School, is the hero of many books by this author, who's written a large number of suspense novels set in suburban New Jersey

Harlan Coben

In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this

Hazelnut (late 1300s)

In this children's novel by Scott O'Dell, a girl named Karana is alone on the title isle

Island of the blue dolphins

This author of "Deliverance" was Prof. of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia from 1968 to 1997

James Dickey

6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential"

James Elroy

As an editor in London, Ezra Pound helped to publish this man's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

James Joyce

Which African American Stanford law alum hit bestseller lists after Reese Witherspoon selected her romance novel The Proposal for her Hello, Sunshine book club? Her other popular novels include The Wedding Date and Royal Holiday.

Jasmine Guillory

The novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), the play Orphée (1926), and the film La Belle et la Bête (1946) are among the works of what avant-garde French intellectual?

Jean Cocteau

The imaginary country Boca Grande figures in "A Book of Common Prayer" by this late Californian better known for her essays

Joan Didion

He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

John Irving

What British author wrote "Revelations of Divine Love" between the 14th and 15th centuries and it generally credited with being the first woman to have written a book in English?

Julian of Norwich

A 2018 book goes "Inside the Mind of" this right-wing political daughter, the runner-up for French president in 2017 & 2022

Le Pen

The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip

Lil Abner

The closing credits of "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban" bring this document to life, then Harry says, "Mischief managed"

Marauder's map

The home of this educator known for his "Readers" is kept as a museum on the campus of Miami University in Ohio

McGuffrey

In an equine sequel by Marguerite Henry, Stormy is the foal of this horse "of Chincoteague"

Misty

"The Bear" is one of the stories in Faulkner's collection called "Go Down," him

Moses

In an Alistair MacLean novel, Keith Mallory must scale the cliffs of this island & quell the title "Guns" there

Navarone

American author Rex Stout is known for creating what detective, whose assistant is Archie Goodwin? This character first appeared in the 1934 novel "Fer-de-Lance".

Nero Wolfe

This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment"

Noise

The "whirlwind" life of biblical prophet Elijah is told in "The Fifth Mountain" by this Brazilian author

Paulo Coelho

"The White Queen" & "The Red Queen" are the first 2 of this author's "Cousins' War" historical novels

Philipa Gregory

Not just for the birds, & a Man Booker Prize finalist: "____ English"

Pigeon (2011 by Stephen Kelman)

What literary character, the title character of a novel by William Golding, imagines that he has escaped from drowning as he is drowning?

Pincher Martin

Of this novel about the floundering Wheelers, Richard Yates said his title meant that the this of 1776 hit a dead end in the 1950s

Revolutionary Road

In a Larry Niven novel, a motley crew of explorers travel to this ribbon-like "world" that encircles a star

Ringworld

"Lethal White" is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel J.K. Rowling has written using this pseudonym

Robert Galbraith

A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers"

Robert Heinlein

Which fellow prisoner of the title merchant co-wrote the autobiography The Travel of Marco Polo

Rusticiano

"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" & "The Laughing Man" are 2 of the "Nine Stories" put out by this author

Salinger

This author, Hugo-nominated in his 20s for "Babel-17", has the middle initial "R" for Ray; he won a few years later

Samuel R Delaney

Confessions has been the title of numerous works of literature throughout history, Likely the two most notable with that title were written in Latin in the late 4th century CE and in French in the 1760s. Identify both authors.

St Augustine of Hippo, JJ Rousseau

Around 1224 this Italian saint composed the poetic "Canticle of the Creatures"

St Francis of Assisi

Indigenous wisdom is passed on to the TikTok generation in "Braiding", this plant, made into baskets in the South for centuries

Sweetgrass

"The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" is the subtitle of this Doris Kearns Goodwin book about Abe's unusual cabinet

Team of Rivals

In 2017, N. K. Jemisin became the first author to win the Hugo award for best novel in three consecutive years, winning for the three books in her Broken Earth series, which started with what book?

The 5th season

I order you to name this first novel by Pat Conroy about tough Marine Corps colonel Bull Meecham

The Great Santini (Also wrote Prince of Tides)

As they left Lórien, all the members of this title Tolkien group were "filled with tears. Gimli wept openly"

The fellowship of the ring

What 2021 debut novel by Sierra Leonean-American author Namina Forma follows a semi-immortal young woman who bleeds gold and is forced to fight monsters, until she decides she's had enough?

The gilded ones

In 2017, in the third book in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series won not only the Hugo award for best novel, but also the Nebula and Locus awards in the same category. What was the name of this book?

The stone Sky (Obelisk Gate was 2nd book)

whose last novel was ""You Can't Go Home Again"

Thomas Wolfe

In 1983 this "Psychedelic Evangelist" wrote his autobiographical "Flashbacks"

Timothy Leary

The title of Gabrielle Zevin's novel about young game designers is this repetitive line from "Macbeth" expressing weariness

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force"

Tony Robbins

In Charles Portis' novel, Mattie wants a man with this title 2-word quality as she avenges her dad's murder & finds Rooster Gogburn

True Grit

"Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words

Ulysses

This Bel Kaufman novel set at Calvin Coolidge High School has become a modern classic

Up the down staircase

In 2001, This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature

V.S. Naipaul

John Green wrote alternating chapters with David Levithan for a novel that follows two very different teens--one gay & one straight--who share this same name

Will Grayson

A noted figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, which British artist and designer was also a socialist activist who wrote the utopian novel News from Nowhere?

William Morris

What book was the basis for the 1990 movies Goodfellas?

Wise Guy (by Nick Pileggi, hubby of Nora Ephron)

Clarissa Pinkola Estes told "Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" in "Women Who Run with" these wild animals

Wolves

Trent Lott's memoir of his life in politics is aptly titled doing this, which might actually be easier with pets than with senators

Wrangling cats (Senator from Mississippi)

George Guidall has recorded more than 850 books, from "Abel's Island" to Philip Roth's this man "Unbound"

Zuckerman

This Michelle Obama memoir was the bestselling hardcover book of 2018

becoming

What queer novel won the 2023 National Book Award?

blackouts by Justin Torres

What novel takes its epigraph — and title — from a Jonathan Swift witticism about the enemies of a true genius? Its protagonist, at least, thinks of himself as a luminary.

confederacy of dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

A Stark tale indeed: "A Feast for ____"

crows (2005 5th book of ice and fire series)

In "The Old Curiosity Shop", this means a miser, even without an initial "skin"

flint

Sir John Tenniel drew cartoons for "Punch" but is best known for illustrating this author's books

lewis Carroll

"Dizzy sunless cliffs above the great abyss" paints a picture in H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of" this

madness

Let's toss around "Mrs. Frisby & the ____ of NIMH"

rats (1971 Children's science fiction book)

The fourth book in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series takes what name from the shipwreck-littered northern part of Nambia's Atlantic shoreline?

skeleton coast

After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid & nanny

the help