Interesting Facts About Famous Writers

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1. Which female writer was the first woman registered to vote in Concord, New Hampshire? Emily Dicknson Agatha Christie Louisa May Alcott Anne Bradstreet

2. What was George Eliot's real name? Mary Ann Evans Elliot George Georgiana Evans George Evans

3. Which author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946? Hermann Hesse Ernest Hemingway Thomas Hardy John Steinbeck

4. Did Stephen Crane get wounded in the Civil War, as did his hero in "The Red Badge of Courage"? Yes No

5. Which writer lived and traveled with his lover for almost thirty years before marrying her? D.H. Lawrence Mark Twain James Joyce Bret Harte

6. Which writer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Frost Charles Darwin Ernest Hemingway

7. Which writer was abandoned as a child? Lucy Maud Montgomery John Steinbeck Mary Shelly Alexandre Dumas

8. James Fenimore Cooper's father founded a town. True False

9. O. Henry was convicted and went to prison for manslaughter. True False

10. Which writer was once a freight train hopping hobo, arrested for vagrancy in Niagara Falls? Jack London E.M. Forster Aldous Huxley F. Scott Fitzgerald